Alexander Prechtel

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Alexander Prechtel (born August 23, 1946 in Munich ) is a German lawyer. He was Attorney General of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Life

Prechtel studied law at the Georg August University and became a member of the Curonia Goettingensis on May 2, 1965 . After his legal clerkship, he received a position as a public prosecutor at the Lübeck Public Prosecutor's Office , which he took up there with effect from April 4, 1975. A good three years later, Prechtel was appointed public prosecutor with a permanent position at the Lübeck public prosecutor's office. During his work in Lübeck, Prechtel was responsible, among other things, for politically motivated crimes on the inner-German border in the area of ​​responsibility of the Lübeck public prosecutor's office. Among other things, the Michael Gartenschläger case was involved. After a secondment as a research assistant to the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, Prechtel initially worked as a government director at the federal prosecutor's office with effect from December 31, 1982.

On October 31, 1984 Prechtel was appointed senior public prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice. He was also a long-time press spokesman and personal advisor as well as head of the office of Attorney General Kurt Rebmann . He dismissed Prechtel in his role as press spokesman in early May 1989 under pressure from the then State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Klaus Kinkel . Prechtel is said to have been responsible for indiscretions regarding the handling of the federal government with imprisoned members of the Red Army parliamentary group . The charismatic Attorney General Rebmann disliked this approach, but instead of him, Prechtel had to vacate his post. Nevertheless, Prechtel stayed in Rebmann's environment, so he traveled to Leipzig with the Federal Attorney General in December 1989 to inspect the building of the former Reich Court .

Since the spring of 1990 Prechtel was entrusted with the later Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm with the task of dissolving the authority of the General Prosecutor of the GDR and the military prosecutor of the GDR . On October 2, 1990, Prechtel became the authority of the last GDR attorney general, Günter Seidel .

After the state elections on October 20, 1990, the newly formed state governments of the new states had a considerable need for personnel. The Ministry of Justice of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which is currently being established in Schwerin, asked Prechtel at the beginning of November whether he would like to become a General Prosecutor in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. After his acceptance, Prechtel initially worked in Schwerin after his appointment by the then Justice Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Ulrich Born . However, since in Germany the chief judge and the chief prosecutor traditionally demonstrate their independence from the government by choosing a different location, Rostock was ultimately chosen as the seat for the Rostock Higher Regional Court and the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Harald Ringstorff put the politically unpopular political official Prechtel, surprisingly, into temporary retirement in August 1999 and justified this with the fact that the necessary relationship of trust between the state government and Prechtel no longer existed.

After his dismissal, Prechtel worked as an independent management consultant. On the occasion of the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2001 , the CDU candidate Frank Steffel Prechtel joined his campaign team as a legal adviser.

Today Alexander Prechtel works in a law firm in Bentwisch near Rostock, and is honorary chairman of the local advisory board for Warnemünde and Diedrichshagen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 29/40
  2. ^ Handbook of Justice 1978 p. 217.
  3. ^ Handbook of Justice 1980 p. 227.
  4. ↑ a b c d Interview by Fred Mrotzek with Alexander Prechtel in Land in Transition Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after the end of the GDR by Stefan Creuzberger, Fred Mrotzek and Mario Niemann 2018 ISBN 9783954100798 pp. 155–165
  5. ↑ Handbook of Justice 1984 p. 3.
  6. ^ Handbook of Justice 1986 p. 3.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Spörl: A man for delicate tasks - Klaus Kinkel is a top civil servant with calculation and energy . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1989
  8. ↑ Christian Bommarius: When the chemistry is wrong . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 13, 1999
  9. ^ Mathis Feldhoff, Mario Schmidt: Fired - Why a Attorney General lost his job . Panorama (ARD), August 5, 1999
  10. ^ Christian Rath: Radiance on the side of Frank Steffel . In: taz , August 9, 2001
  11. ↑ Sabine Beikler, Barbara Junge: Berlin CDU: No shadow cabinet, but Steffel's team casts its shadow ahead . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 14, 2001
  12. ↑ anwalt-suchservice.de
  13. ↑ rathaus.rostock.de
personal data
SURNAME Prechtel, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and attorney general
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich