Bernd Moldenhauer

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Bernd Moldenhauer (* 14. August 1949 in Falkenberg (Mark) ; † 15. July 1980 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a GDR - Dissident derived from a unofficial employees of the Stasi murdered was.

Act

The trained construction worker was arrested in Hungary in 1972 for attempting to " illegally cross the border " and released from custody in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1973 .

After his release from prison, he moved to West Berlin , where he demonstrated against GDR policy together with Dieter Dombrowski, who would later become CDU politician and former political prisoner from Brandenburg . According to Dombrowski, this included the symbolic walling up of the West Berlin Aeroflot office at the Zoo station . In 1978 Moldenhauer moved to Heilbronn , but was still involved in actions against the SED regime in West Berlin . The Stasi created the operational procedure (OV) "Contact" for Moldenhauer . It emerges from it that Department XXII ("Counter Terrorism") planned in June 1980 to lure Moldenhauer into an ambush and arrest him while using the transit route . The plan could not be implemented because Moldenhauer avoided the transit route.

assassination

Moldenhauer was a member of the anti-communist International Society for Human Rights (ISHR). On July 15, 1980 he was strangled by his local club mate Aribert Freder at a motorway service station near Bad Hersfeld in Hesse. Aribert Freder, a West Berlin bus driver, was later exposed as an unofficial employee (IM) of the State Security (IM "Günter Frank"). In 1981 Freder was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Berlin Regional Court for manslaughter. The verdict says: "The motive for the crime cannot be explained."

Only a few days before the murder, Freder met his commanding officers in East Berlin, who were still trying to cover up the traces in the files on the Moldenhauer case in 1989. In order to prevent Aribert Freder from revealing too much about his work for the Stasi in West German custody, his wife was given 54,000  DM . Freder himself had previously been rewarded with tens of thousands of D-Marks by the GDR secret service.

Cases with parallels

So far, it is only suspected that a contract killing by the state security in the west could also have occurred with the soccer player Lutz Eigendorf . In the case of the escape helper Wolfgang Welsch , the intent to kill the Stasi agent Peter Haack could be proven, but the victim survived the poison attack.

In earlier, similar cases, the Stasi often proceeded with kidnapping their victims, who were then executed in the Eastern Bloc, such as in the case of Walter Linse (kidnapped in West Berlin, executed in Moscow) or Sylvester Murau (kidnapped near Darmstadt, executed in Dresden).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "My previous life was hard". Dieter Dombrowski (MdL) talks about his life and his future plans . (PDF; 5.7 MB) published in Preußenspiegel, p. 5 of February 24, 2008
  2. ↑ Dirk Banse, Uwe Müller, Lucas Wiegelmann: The mysterious death on the highway . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 15, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Moldenhauer, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German GDR dissident who was murdered by an IM of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenberg (Mark)
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1980
Place of death near Bad Hersfeld