Friedrich Wolff, among the most prominent lawyers in communist East Germany, has died. He was 101. He died peacefully at home on Monday afternoon in Wandlitz, a town north of Berlin, his publisher announced on Tuesday on behalf of Wolff’s widow. Wolff, who was born in a Jewish family in Berlin in 1922, survived Nazi persecution during World War II and joined the Communist Party shortly after the end of the war. He eventually became best-known in East Germany for hosting a television programme on legal issues, “Alles was Recht ist.” He rose to prominence as the defence at East German show trial…