Chancellor Merkel, your German ECHR Registrar Westerdiek is more than worthy of an honorarium. Her dedicated and impartial juridical professionalism came to fruition in Court Case 51482/18 (Single-Judge decision) in January 2019

German Registrar Claudia Westerdiek,
imbued with exquisit cultural and symbolic capital, and complemented by habitus.
Section V - European Court of Human Rights.

Expertly executed by judge Potocki in Single-judge decision.

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Bundeskanzleramt
Bundeskanzlerin
Angela Merkel
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin

(and by email)

July 16, 2019

Subject: Requesting special honorarium on achievement

Respected Chancellor,

I hope you will be fine and cherishing sound peace at your disposal. This letter is in favour of Mrs. Claudia Westerdiek who is the German Registrar at Section V of the venerable European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It gives me great pleasure and I feel honored to convey to you my utmost respect and satisfaction about the reception I was privileged to receive by your Registrar Westerdiek.

Her most dedicated and impartial juridical professionalism came to full fruition in Court Case 51482/18 (Single-Judge decision) in January 2019. As Gerards and Glas (University Utrecht) write in "Access to justice in the European Convention on Human Rights system":“… non-judicial rapporteurs (Registry officers) sift through, assess and categorise the many incoming applications. … these are presented with lists containing single-sentence descriptions of each case. … Relying on the quality of these preparatory documents, the judges usually simply rubber-stamp them, without looking into the file”.

I am delighted to report that grâce à your compatriot Registrar Westerdiek of the German Section V this case involving the criminal & primitive civil servant of your country, Jürgen Sonneck from Munich, has been successfully sanitized. The clumsy person of disagreeable countenance who had planned months ahead to email on May 7, 2015 a heinous complaint amounting to libel to the, stupid as one can be, police in Munich (!) using the false name “C. Paucher”, will not tarnish the image of your country.

Imbued with exquisit cultural and symbolic capital, and complemented by habitus, ’...an internal organizing mechanism which learns, as a result of social positioning, how to play the game; [relevant] dispositions arise from the fields to which one has access, knowledge and experience’ (Skeggs 2004), your German Registrar Westerdiek expertly read the signals and need of containment. As Bourdieu (1977) observed, courts “seek to recruit individuals possessing particular forms of cultural capital, these forms becoming symbolic capital as these are valued as evidence of the appropriate habitus required to perform and succeed within the specific cultural spaces that is” the judiciary.

In a responsible and appropriate way great consideration has been taken by your German Registrar following the principle that “international courts are also advised to treat different states differently. States that enjoy a high-reputation for compliance with international law pose a greater threat to the court” (Shai Dothan ‘The Motivations of Individual Judges and How They Act as a Group’). After all, “as states do not like to be found in violation of their human rights obligations, it is not surprising that they would seek to limit admissibility, even (or especially) in respect to meritorious claims” (US professor emeritus Dinah Shelton ‘Significantly Disadvantaged?’). In other words, dear Chancellor, the image of your country Germany has been kept squeaky clean. The whole coverup from Munich police, via the Kangaroo Court Munich and the pompous Red Divas of Karlsruhe, all is contained and concealed. Is that not great? To guarantee this

“The Court shall not keep the file in its archives for more than one year from the date of this decision”

(Single-decision Judge Potocki in his letter of 17/01/2019).

The sincerity your Teutonic Registrar Westerdiek has shown is impressive and a shining example of devoted altruism cum professionalism and all what makes Europe so beloved and envied the world over and, furthermore, true to Cardinal Richelieu’s musing that “secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state”.

There is something of dignity in Registrar Westerdiek’s countenance, that would not give one an unfavourable idea of her heart. A tremendous asset not only to her country but also to the distinguished Court of Human Rights, Registrar Westerdiek is more than worthy of an honorarium, I should think. You must, therefore, pardon the freedom with which I demand your attention; your feelings, I know, will bestow it unwillingly, but I demand it of your justice. Chancellor Merkel, allow me to humbly appeal to your and your country’s generosity to bestow a reward on Registrar Westerdiek for her outstanding service to the country and its citizens. It is more than earned and would fill me with with subtle pride, moral comfort and consolation. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Yours Truly,