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The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 7 October 2008 as a Chamber composed of:
Rait Maruste, President, Karel Jungwiert, Volodymyr Butkevych, Mark Villiger, Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Zdravka Kalaydjieva, judges, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar ,
The applicant, Mr Rüdiger Gromzig, is a German national who was born in 1952 and lives in Glinde.
The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.
The applicant is the heir of his parents, who owned several properties located on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic (“the GDR”). In 1951 his parents left the GDR and their property was expropriated. In 1977 the applicant's mother received compensation for the loss of the properties under the Equalisation of Burdens Act ( Lastenausgleichsgesetz – see “Relevant domestic law” below). In 1990 two of the properties were purchased from the State by the tenants.
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