Alfred Leibner

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Alfred Leibner (born March 16, 1922 in Chemnitz ; † January 5, 1997 ) was a German military prosecutor who served as the GDR's chief military prosecutor from 1960 to 1966 and from 1967 to 1987 .

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Alfred Leibner was born on March 16, 1922, the son of a worker. After attending elementary and vocational school, Leibner began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he subsequently successfully completed and briefly worked in this profession. He also worked professionally as an iron weaver. In 1941 he joined the Reich Labor Service (RAD) of the Wehrmacht and was, among other things, a Soviet prisoner of war from 1944 to 1948 . In 1948 he returned to Germany, where he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and from 1949 to 1950 as a nurse and from 1950 to 1951 as a trainer at the trade organization(HO) was active. He then attended from 1951 to 1953 the workers and farmers faculty (ABF), where he made up his Abitur before he attended a course for people's judges at the University of Justice in Bad Schandau . From 1953 he worked as an assistant to the first law course at the College for Officers in Dresden and then in 1954 he was investigative officer at the Berlin Investigation Office .

He was then a member of the Air Force / Air Defense Command of the National People's Army from 1954 to 1960 or as a public prosecutor in the period before the National People's Army was officially founded . In the period from 1955 to 1958 he took a correspondence course in law at the ASR Potsdam and completed this as a lawyer . In 1960 he replaced Alfred Schille as chief military prosecutor of the GDR and rose to the rank of colonel on October 7, 1963 . At the beginning of 1961, the then Minister of Defense Heinz Hoffmann rejected a proposal made by the then Deputy Attorney General of the GDR to promote Leibner to colonel early . One reason is said to have been the detention of the Defense Minister's cook. In addition, Leibner is said not to have bowed to pressure from the generals, who suggested that the delinquent should only be given a suspended sentence. In addition, Leibner was only promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 7, 1960 .

Until 1966 he was in office as chief military attorney, he was replaced by Fritz Strauch and until 1967 he was stationed as an officer attorney at the "Friedrich Engels" military academy in Dresden . Then he took over the military attorney's office again in 1967 and held this position until 1987. He was described as "arrogant" by the Stasi , which had been trying to collect material against him since 1960 because he was constantly offending the generals and also messing with the Stasi itself. In 1971 he reached the rank of major general and in 1981 the rank of lieutenant general . In the last year he also became Deputy Public Prosecutor of the GDR Josef Streit . Honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1982 , Leibner was dismissed from active military service in 1986, when Josef Streit also retired. His successor was Ernst Girke (* 1930), who had also worked in military justice since the 1950s and was one of Leibner's deputy since 1971.

In 1994/95 Leibner was a co-defendant in the so-called college trial, one of the wall rifle trials that took place from 1991 to 2004 . The proceedings against Leibner and five of the ten co-defendants were discontinued due to age and / or illness. At this point in time, Leibner himself had not had a stomach for years and was severely affected by bladder cancer . Because of him, the negotiations mostly had to be interrupted every 60 minutes so that Leibner could eat. The remaining four defendants received sentences of up to three years and three months. Leibner died on January 5, 1997 at the age of 74 as a result of his illness.

literature

  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs (Ed.): Who was who in the GDR? A lexicon of East German biographies. 2 volumes: Volume 1: A-L , Volume 2: M-Z . With the collaboration of Olaf W. Reimann, in cooperation with the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship. 5th, updated and expanded new edition, Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Helmut Irmen : Stasi and GDR Military Justice: The Influence of the Ministry for State Security on Criminal Proceedings and the Prison System in the Military Justice of the GDR - Contemporary Legal History / Department 5, Volume 22 , De Gruyter , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11031-664-3 .
  • Rüdiger Wenzke : Off to Schwedt! The history of the GDR military penal system. Edition: 3rd, updated edition 2016, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-638-3
  • Rüdiger Wenzke and Klaus Froh : The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual (= research on GDR society ). Edited by the Military History Research Office, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-438-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans Ehlert (ed.) And Armin Wagner (ed.) Comrade General !: The GDR's military elite in biographical sketches (military history of the GDR)
  2. ↑ NVA generals call for withdrawal by certificate , accessed on September 16, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Life with Litz in Der Spiegel 33/1995
personal data
SURNAME Leibner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1997