Correctiv wins appeal against ruling on reporting on Potsdam meetings

The research platform Correctiv has won its appeal against a ruling on its reporting on the so-called Potsdam meeting. The Berlin Court of Appeal granted the application, as a court spokesman said upon request. A written justification for the decision is therefore not yet available.

The current case concerned a statement by the lawyer Ulrich Vosgerau about the freedom of choice of young voters of Turkish origin, which Correctiv reported on. The Berlin regional court banned the formulation in September 2025.

Unlike the lower court, the Chamber Court assessed the statement as a permissible expression of opinion, said Carsten Brennecke, Vosgerau's lawyer. The verdict is not yet final. "Appeals are being considered," he said.

Editor-in-Chief: “An important signal”

“The Court of Appeal has now made it clear that reporting is permissible,” said Correctiv’s legal representative, Thorsten Feldmann. Correctiv editor-in-chief Justus von Daniels sees the verdict as “an important signal, despite the banality of the actual subject of the dispute.”

In January 2024, Correctiv published the article “Secret Plan Against Germany” about a meeting of right-wing and right-wing extremists in a hotel near Potsdam in November 2023. Several people involved then filed a lawsuit against the reporting.