Vera Brühne

Vera Brühne (February 6, 1910 in Essen – April 17, 2001 in Munich) got famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair.[1] In 1979, she was pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.[2]

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References

  1. SONNEMANN, U. Der bundesdeutsche Dreyfus-Skandal: Rechtsbruch und Denkverzicht in der zehn Jahre alten Justizsache Brühne-Ferbach. 1970.
  2. So war's 1962. Der Fall Vera Brühne (www.wdr.de)

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