Expert commission on the future of the BStU authority

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At the request of the parliamentary groups CDU / CSU , SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the German Bundestag on July 1, 2014, an independent expert commission on the future of the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU ) set up. Under the chairmanship of Wolfgang Böhmer , it should work out proposals by 2016 on how the Stasi records authority should be continued from 2019. According to the Stasi Records Act , the option to check for previous Stasi involvement will expire in 2019. The members of the commission were not members of the German Bundestag , but were proposed by the four parliamentary groups CDU / CSU (7), SPD (5) Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (1) and Die Linke (1). In addition, the former President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse was a member. The consultation appointments were arranged internally. At the first working meeting on January 15, 2015, Roland Jahn's expert commission took them through the main archive of the BStU.

In a non-public meeting of the Bundestag Committee on Culture and Media, the commission announced the key points of its recommendations, which were presented to Bundestag President Norbert Lammert in April 2016 . The commission proposed to dissolve the BStU authority by the end of the 19th legislative period and to transfer the files of the Ministry for State Security to a new foundation under the umbrella of the Federal Archives . Another foundation called "Dictatorship and Resistance Foundation - Forum for Democracy and Human Rights" was to be formed from the remains of the authority. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial should also be transferred to this. The new foundation was to look after the site of the former Stasi headquarters in Berlin-Lichtenberg, where a private association already runs the Stasi Museum (see Normannenstrasse Research and Memorial Site ). Instead of the federal commissioner for the Stasi files, the election of an ombudsman for SED victims was planned.

The proposals met with massive criticism, especially from victims' associations. Commissioner Hildigund Neubert distanced himself from the recommendations and submitted a minority vote. The conflict intensified when the SPD refused to re-elect Roland Jahn, whose term of office had expired in March 2016, before no decision had been taken to wind up the authority. The parliamentary group chairmen of the governing coalition, Volker Kauder and Thomas Oppermann , finally agreed to postpone the decision on the future of the authority to the next legislative period. Roland Jahn was re-elected on June 9, 2016. The Federal Archives and the BStU are now to jointly present a concept for the administration of the Stasi files.

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  1. ↑ Expert commission in the former Stasi headquarters. (No longer available online.) In: Deutscher Bundestag. January 15, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Stasi files should be in the Federal Archives. In: tagesschau.de. March 16, 2016, accessed March 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ - What should become of the Stasi records authority ( Memento from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Stasi files: coming to terms with GDR history is in danger - WELT. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Re-election of Roland Jahn - head of the Stasi records authority wants to broaden their horizons . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed June 20, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Alexander Weinlein: Alexander Weinlein: On the search. Roland Jahn calls for sustainable structures. In: The Parliament. March 27, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Markus Decker: Rainer Wagner: Head of the GDR victims' associations must go. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 18, 2015, accessed May 18, 2015 .