Alexander von Stahl

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Alexander von Stahl (born June 10, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer and former politician ( FDP ). From May 1975 to February 1989 he was State Secretary of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice and from June 1990 to July 1993 Attorney General . Since his retirement in 1993, one of his priorities has been the multi-faceted support of the new right weekly newspaper " Junge Freiheit ".

Life

Youth and Studies

Parental home in Hopsten

He grew up in Hopsten in Westphalia , passed the Abitur in Ibbenbüren and studied law in Munich and Münster . In 1961 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1967 he moved to Berlin and became a civil servant in the Senate Department for the Interior .

FDP politician

In 1961 he joined the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been a member of the FDP regional association in Berlin since 1967 . From 1968 to 1990 he was a delegate of the Berlin FDP state committee, from 1989 to 1990 he was a member of the FDP state executive committee. From 1970 to 1975 he was managing director of the FDP parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives .

In 1979, together with Hermann Oxfort , he founded the Liberal Society , which set itself the goal of a right-wing liberal renewal of the FDP. In the 1990s he tried to revive the national liberal tradition of the party with Klaus Rainer Röhl . With Achim Rohde and Heiner Kappel he founded the Liberal Offensive in the FDP in 1995 .

In 1996 and 1998 he ran unsuccessfully as Berlin FDP regional chairman. He was narrowly defeated by the opposing candidate Martin Matz . In the same year he applied as a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Spandau .

State Secretary

Senator and Mayor Hermann Oxfort appointed him in May 1975 as State Secretary in the Berlin judicial administration . He remained in office even after Oxfort's resignation in July 1976, serving under Senators Jürgen Baumann (FDP), Gerhard Moritz Meyer (FDP) and Rupert Scholz ( CDU ). When he put the number of rape victims in a criminal trial in the House of Representatives Committee on September 9, 1987 at “eight”, the meeting had to be prematurely terminated due to unanimous outrage from MPs and listeners about the choice of words. In February 1989, the red-green Senate under the Governing Mayor Walter Momper put him into temporary retirement .

Attorney General

At the instigation of FDP chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff , he was proposed by the CDU and FDP as federal prosecutor and appointed on June 1, 1990. Kurt Rebmann , his predecessor since July 1, 1977, retired. Of steel tenure was from prosecution of former agents of the GDR - Ministry of State Security and the fight against terrorist organizations like the Red Army Faction (RAF), and particularly the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) dominated.

After the assassination attempt in Solingen , in which five people of Turkish descent died on May 29, 1993, von Stahl denied a right-wing extremist background for a long time, although a DVU membership card was found on one of the perpetrators .

On July 6, 1993, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) put von Stahl into temporary retirement . The occasion was one of Federal -led GSG-9 use in bath small one on 27 June 1993 in which the RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams suicide committed after the GSG-9 officer Michael Newrzella was fatally wounded by a gunshot. When the suspicion arose that Grams had been deliberately shot in revenge by the colleagues of the killed police officer, Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters (CDU) resigned. Von Stahl was held responsible for the information policy of his agency. He himself made several contradicting statements on the case. The events of Bad Kleinen were later described by a civil chamber of the Bonn Regional Court as not clearable . In the course of the processing of this case, the chairman of the staff council defended the Federal Prosecutor von Stahl and demanded his rehabilitation. The reason for his dismissal was in no way incorrect press releases, but rather the failure to comply with a “ muzzle decree ” from Federal Justice Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. He had already clashed with his minister in connection with the Mykonos attack . Stahl's successor as Federal Attorney General was Kay Nehm .

Legal practice

After his retirement, von Stahl withdrew from party politics and worked as a lawyer and criminal defense attorney, specializing in commercial and tax criminal law. He took over the legal representation of the Berlin weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit in its constitutional complaint because of the mention of the paper in the constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the claim that there were "actual indications for the suspicion of right-wing extremism" in the newspaper. In the judgment of 24 May 2005, raising the Federal Constitutional Court to the judgments of the lower courts, since both the Administrative Court Dusseldorf and the Supreme Administrative Court had not adequately addressed the basic unlawful interference with freedom of the press by official suspicion publications. The disputes, which sometimes lasted for years, ended in 2006 with a settlement. In 2006 he signed the “Appeal for Press Freedom” initiated by Junge Freiheit against the exclusion of Junge Freiheit from the Leipzig Book Fair .

In 2015 Alexander von Stahl founded his own law firm together with Oliver Klein .

Others

Von Stahl lives in Ettlingen and is a member of the Catholic student union AV Zollern in the CV . He was also a member of the supervisory board of myTV Internet-Fernsehen AG of management consultant Frank Didszuleit. Among other things, von Stahl was a speaker at the Institute for State Policy .

Publications

  • Terrorism and espionage. Assessments of the Attorney General. Übersee-Club, Hamburg 1991.
  • The legacy of the Ministry of State Security (MfS). University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Speyer 1993.
  • Fight for freedom of the press. Chronology of a scandal. The constitutional complaint of the weekly newspaper 'Junge Freiheit' due to violation of freedom of expression and freedom of the press by reports on the protection of the constitution from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Documentation series, Vol. 5–7, Edition JF, Berlin 2003–2004: ISBN 3-929886-15-4 , ISBN 3-929886-17-0 , ISBN 3-929886-18-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1987 - 1988. A day-to-day review - September 9, 1987 , Der Tagesspiegel of September 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Tagesschau, June 7, 1993
  3. ^ Justice: The wrong pig , Der Spiegel, September 27, 1993
  4. ↑ Michael Stoessinger: Trade with the executioners. Die Zeit, January 7, 1994, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ nz: Celebrities stand up for “Young Freedom”. Archived from the original on January 13, 2014 ; accessed on January 2, 2013 (in Netzeitung , February 7, 2006).
  6. ^ Page 119 in the book "Right Networks - A Danger" by Stephan Braun and Daniel Hoersch, Springer-Verlag, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP) and attorney general
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin