Case #0024
As a toxicologist, pharmacologist and immunologist with habilitation in the field of medicine (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), I have, since March 2020, taken public positions on the Corona measures – particularly on the vaccines used, their risk-benefit assessment and their basis for approval. This work belongs to my profession: for over three decades I have been professionally engaged with the assessment of medicinal products.
Some of my early statements from March 2020 – for example regarding the comparability of SARS-CoV-2 with influenza in the very first phase – were later criticised as overly pointed. I stand by my objections at the time concerning proportionality, the state of the data and the haste of the measures. Several Robert Koch Institute documents released subsequently have confirmed my scepticism at that time.
On the corporate structure: I have run a consultancy (TPI Consult GmbH, Bollschweil near Freiburg) for the pharmaceutical industry since 1994. In 2011 I additionally founded the company TPI Consult GmbH in Switzerland (Stein in the canton of Aargau, since May 2022 as an AG). This Swiss company is duly registered in the Swiss commercial register with its own managing director (a Swiss molecular biologist and toxicologist), its own seat and its own business operations, declares its turnover in Switzerland and pays taxes there regularly at the federal and cantonal level. In 2017, after a tax-law expert opinion and a non-assessment notice, the German tax office expressly confirmed this structure.
What happened in 2021: On 17 June 2021, my office and my private home were searched by the tax investigation authorities; files and IT equipment were seized. In August 2021, an asset seizure followed on my entire German property – bank accounts, real estate, life insurance policies – totalling around €1.3 million. The destruction of the German consultancy that had existed since 1994 went hand in hand with this. The German tax authorities now took the position that the Swiss company was not to be recognised as an independent place of business, and demanded the income earned in Switzerland retroactively from me as a private individual in Germany. In my view, this contradicts the double taxation treaty applicable between Germany and Switzerland.
Mutual agreement procedure: In 2022, I applied for a mutual agreement procedure between the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (ESTV) and the German tax administration. The ESTV accepted the procedure and negotiated with the German side at the end of 2023. Subsequently, the ESTV decided – in my view under political pressure from Germany – against further pursuit of the procedure.
No court proceedings for over four years: To this day (as of spring 2026), there are no court proceedings, no oral main hearing, no verdict. Lawsuits before the fiscal court concerning the asset seizure have shown that exonerating evidence has not been examined more closely – one judge stated to me that exonerating evidence “did not interest him”. The role of my Swiss managing director was relativised in the briefs by pointing to a private connection (his wife’s dance school) and questioning his professional qualification.
In my view: The core of the matter is a political strategy to economically eliminate a critic of the Corona measures. This reading emerges for me from the coincidence of temporal proximity (the house search followed a phase of intense public criticism), the change of course by the authorities (2017 confirmation, 2021 negation of the same construction), and the refusal to apply exonerating evidence and the double taxation treaty.
Despite everything, I would act the same way again. All people have a right to information – and with my training as a toxicologist, pharmacologist and immunologist, and over three decades of professional experience in the assessment of medicinal products, I have the duty to provide it. I hope this documentation contributes to the public learning what has happened to medical scientists and scientists in this country – and that this does not happen again.
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