Legal Opinion
Philipp v. Federal Republic of Germany
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 31, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2015-0266PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, United States District Judge
This case centers around the June 14, 1935, sale of a collection of medieval relics known as the ‘Welfenschatz” by a consortium of three art dealer firms in Frankfurt (“Consortium”) to the .State of Prussia through the Dresdner Bank. Plaintiffs Alan Philipp, Gerald G. Stiebel, and Jed R. Leiber, legal successors of the estates of members of the Consortium, filed suit against Defendants the Federal Republic of Germany (“Germany”) and Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (“SPK”), an instrumentality of' Germany, alleging that…
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