Gaby Weber

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Gaby Weber (2011)

Gabriele "Gaby" Weber (born January 4, 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German publicist . One focus of her publications is the history of German-Latin American relations.

life and work

Weber studied Romance languages and journalism at the Free University of Berlin , where in 1979 with the Master of Arts graduated and 1982 at the Institute for Latin American doctorate was. The co-founder of taz has worked as a journalist since 1978 and as a freelance correspondent since 1986, first from Montevideo and from 2002 on from Buenos Aires . There she works mainly for the broadcasting companies of the ARD .

In addition to being a correspondent , she has published several reports and extensive research on the history of intelligence activities. Including talks with guerrilla leaders in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay in 1989, in 2004 about Daimler-Benz and the Argentina Connection and in 2005 a play about Adolf Eichmann and atomic research in Argentina. The research on this topic led to extensive correspondence and reports on the federal government's intelligence archive records, which are still blocked. However, after a decision by the Federal Administrative Court , most of the archives blocked by the Federal Chancellery as the supervisory authority must be released.

According to his own account, Weber was prevented from entering the United States and questioned by officers from the US Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) at Washington Dulles International Airport on August 17, 2010 . She had an ESTA travel authorization with her. She was not allowed to notify a lawyer or the German consulate. Weber wanted the Federal Archives of Washington research the whereabouts of German war criminals after the Second World War. The reason given was the lack of entry documents.

According to his own account, Weber learned in 2011 while researching the Colonia Dignidad that files of the BND , which she had previously fought for to inspect, had been destroyed by a so-called “emergency act of destruction”. Weber suspects that the files contained material that would have incriminated the BND or other German state organs. The federal government denies this representation.

In her book Eichmann was still needed , published in 2012, Weber considers it likely that the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann to Israel should only distract from the discovery of secret underground nuclear tests by the USA in Argentina, which threatened to become known due to the Valdivia earthquake in 1960 . Weber's new distraction thesis met with criticism in the media; Rainer Blasius described the author in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a “conspiracy theorist”, Die Welt spoke of a “prime example of how conspiracy theories work”. The philosopher Bernhard Taureck, on the other hand, described Weber's research as thorough and her thesis as “well-founded assumptions”.

In 2017 Weber supported the establishment of the online magazine Rubikon, from which she turned away three weeks later.

In 2019, Weber wrote on Telepolis that Bayer AG's takeover of Monsanto was financed with taxpayers' money. This was because the Bundesbank had bought corporate bonds from Bayer . The daily newspaper (taz) rated this report as a false report that Weber was subject to two mistakes, namely that the Bundesbank had tax money and that the central banks' monetary policy was something like subsidies .

Award

Publications (selection)

  • Eichmann was still needed. The mass murderer and the cold war. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3360021380
  • The nuclear ploughshare - US test attempts despite the moratorium? Deutschlandfunk , dossier , September 2, 2011
  • Chatting with Socrates. Dialog about oil, atom and Eichmann · A play . Die Buchmacherei, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025223-5
  • Daimler-Benz and the Argentina Connection. About rat lines and Nazi money. Association A, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935936-33-8
  • The disappeared from Mercedes-Benz. Association A, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-922611-92-9
  • Visiting the backyards. Reports on the business of Swiss multinationals in Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a foreword by Jean Ziegler . The weekly newspaper in collaboration with the Bern Declaration . Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85869-057-0
  • The guerrilla takes stock: Latin American guerrilla leaders talk about mistakes, strategy and conception - conversations, recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay , Giessen: Focus 1989, ISBN 3-88349-375-9 .
  • The CIA's brainwashing program. Libertarian Association, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-922611-06-0

Movies

  • 2013: there are no miracles
  • 2015: DISINFORMATION - A lesson about the desired story
  • 2016: Crater for Peace
  • 2016: A gift from heaven - how Daimler-Benz was allowed to launder Nazi gold
  • 2017: Deadly Agricultural Culture - How Monsanto Poisons the World
  • 2017: The fight for the files - English version: On my behalf - the fight for the files
  • 2017: Let Feather - From the Third World to the Global South
  • 2018: The robbery of the century - the price of the red gold
  • 2019: Geld or Money - the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the pampas

Radio plays and features

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaby Weber: If you call that money laundering. taz , November 3, 2016, accessed November 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Gaby Weber: Eichmann's arrest - what really happened? Hamburger Abendblatt , March 19, 2007, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Gaby Weber: Angela Merkel keeps files secret. Ossietzky , No. 23, December 8, 2008, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Nazi criminals: Federal government must partially release Eichmann files. In: kgp / ddp / AFP . Spiegel Online , April 30, 2010, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Harald Neuber: USA: Unpleasant research prevented. Telepolis , August 19, 2010, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Gitta Düperthal: I wasn't even allowed to notify the consulate. German journalist wanted to do research in the USA - despite valid papers, she was deported. Conversation with Gaby Weber. In: young world . August 20, 2010, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Gaby Weber: The BND and Colonia Dignidad, known for torture and child abuse. heise online , September 22, 2011, archived from the original on September 24, 2011 ; Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Ulla Jelpke, Wolfgang Gehrcke, Jan van Aken, other MPs and the parliamentary group DIE LINKE. (PDF) Printed matter 17/6751. August 23, 2011, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  9. ^ Rainer Blasius: Distraction? Adolf Eichmann and world politics in May 1960. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 101, April 30, 2012, p. 8.
  10. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Should Eichmann Coup cover the US nuclear program? Die Welt , May 14, 2012, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  11. ^ Bernhard Taureck : Gaby Weber: Eichmann was still needed. (PDF) The mass murderer and the cold war. In: The book review. SWR2 , September 26, 2012, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Gunther Sosna: The die has been cast: In conversation with Gaby Weber about Rubikon.news. In: New Debate. Intando non-profit UG, April 18, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Authors - Gaby Weber. In: Rubicon. Initiative for the Democratization of Opinion Formation gGmbH, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  14. ^ Gaby Weber: New Internet platform Rubikon? - Why I supported the foundation and where my criticism lies. In: Gaby Weber homepage. 2017, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Incorrect report on Monsanto purchase . taz.de, June 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ Winner of the Alternative Media Prize 2015 ( Memento from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ The nuclear plowshare and broadcast manuscript for this. From: deutschlandfunk.de , September 2, 2011, accessed June 19, 2015.
  18. ↑ Reviews / interviews on "chatting with Sokrates". diebuchmacherei.de, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  19. ↑ There are no miracles - 2017 on YouTube
  20. ↑ DISINFORMATION - A lesson on the desired story on YouTube
  21. ↑ Crater for Peace on YouTube
  22. ↑ A gift from heaven - how Daimler-Benz was allowed to launder Nazi gold on YouTube
  23. ↑ Deadly Agri Culture - How Monsanto Poisons the World on YouTube
  24. ↑ The battle for files on YouTube
  25. ↑ On my behalf - the fight for the files on YouTube
  26. Jump up - From the Third World to the Global South on YouTube .
  27. ↑ The Robbery of the Century - The Price of Red Gold on YouTube .
  28. ↑ Money or Money. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Mercedes-Benz Argentina - Legal recourse excluded? In: deutschlandfunk.de. July 22, 2014, accessed September 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Gaby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Gabriele (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart