01 / THE ARCHIVAL RECORD

Kalliope identifies Ruediger von der Goltz (1894-1976) as a lawyer and NSDAP politician, and records his Reichstag membership from 1936.

Source: https://kalliope-verbund.info/de/eac?eac.id=12665669X

02 / THE PREDECESSOR CONNECTION

The firm's own timeline names the practice founded by Dr. Ruediger Graf von der Goltz and dates Kurt Wessing joining it to 1957. Wikipedia gives 1954. The sources disagree on the year; both name the predecessor.

Sources: https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Wessing&oldid=1359825587

03 / HISTORICAL CONTEXT: PARAGRAPH 175

In 1935, the Nazi regime broadened and intensified Paragraph 175, a law criminalising sexual relations between men. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum describes its role in persecution. This contextual source does not establish that von der Goltz authored the amendment.

Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paragraph-175-and-the-nazi-campaign-against-homosexuality

04 / READ THE SOURCE, NOT JUST THE SUMMARY

The Wikipedia article carries notices about a contributor's possible close connection to the subject and the need for more citations. These notices are not findings about who controls the article.

Source snapshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taylor_Wessing&oldid=1359825587