TV epitaval: The case of René Levacher alias ...

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Episode of the TV episode series
Original title The case of René Levacher alias ...
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 German television broadcasting
length 63 minutes
classification Episode 2
First broadcast February 7, 1960 on DFF
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
camera Heinz Böhme
Rosemarie Sundt
Uwe Belz
cut Ilse Pohl
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
television epitaval: The Jakubowski case

The case René Levacher alias ... is a crime drama series Fernsehpitaval of German Television by Wolfgang Luderer from the year 1960th

action

On September 26, 1955, the ambassador Mr. Blankenhorn arrives at a hotel in Hanover to take part in a trial at the 2nd major criminal chamber at the Hanover Regional Court , which he believes will not take place because the accused will not appear. As soon as he checked in, he received a visit from Consul General Reifferscheidt , who informed him that the accused had arrived and that the trial would begin in half an hour. Both go into the courtroom to prevent certain matters from being discussed.

The hearing begins with the personal questioning of the accused. Hans-Konrad Schmeisser explains that he was born in Dortmund in 1919 . In 1944 he was taken prisoner of war and was released in 1947 to study in Tübingen . This town is in the French occupation zone and since he speaks French he meets many French officers. The judge interrupts him and explains that Schmeisser is therefore recruited for the French secret service and is given the name René Levacher there. But before he gets to the details, he reads out the opening resolution. Schmeisser takes on the other co-defendants, including Dr. Rudolf Augstein , Platz, who is accused of meeting Federal Chancellor Dr Spiegel on July 9, 1952 in the news magazine Der Spiegel. Adenauer , the Ambassador Blankenhorn and the Consul General Dr. To have slandered Reifferscheidt. Der Spiegel claimed that Blankenhorn and Reifferscheidt had given agent Schmeisser on behalf of Konrad Adenauer documents that made them agents of the French intelligence service. In order to gain time, Blankenhorn applied for an adjournment to the next day, which was granted.

In the hotel, Schmeisser explains to his lawyer Dr. Ziegler, how the connection with the plaintiffs came about. In 1948 the founding of a West German state was already becoming apparent and the French did not want to leave the negotiations to the Americans and British alone. That is why Schmeisser, at that time already as Lieutenant Levacher of the French intelligence service, met with Reifferscheidt in Cologne , who made him the suggestion that if Germany were to be divided up , the entire left bank of the Rhine should be taken over to France and the documents that had already been prepared were handed over to him. On June 18, 1948 Levacher met in this context, also in Cologne, with the Secretary General of the CDU Blankenhorn. At this meeting it was primarily about the material support of the CDU, but Blankenhorn did not want to comment directly, but passed Levacher on to Adenauer's office, who was already waiting for him. From then on, those involved met regularly, and apart from the CDU's financial needs, it was also a question of bringing Konrad Adenauer and all his relatives to safety in Spain in the event of a military conflict. Levacher had put down the content of the conversations in a secured protocol, which he deposited in a Swiss bank .

At the same time, Blankenhorn and Reifferscheidt talk in their hotel room about the further course of the process to be expected. Here Blankenhorn tells that he met Schmeisser, as his name was now again, in 1951 in a hotel. Schmeisser asked him to get him a post in the Foreign Office, which Blankenhorn vehemently refuses. Any attempt at blackmail will be blocked. That takes revenge, since Schmeisser reports the incident in detail to the German police.

Now in the middle of the night they are trying to reach Adenauer's representative at the court hearing of Prof. Dah to make further arrangements. After this arrived, they agreed that only a settlement could prevent the process from continuing. Together they work on a text in which Schmeisser declares that it was not his intention to have acted with insulting intent. Schmeisser signs the settlement, but Chancellor Adenauer insists that he bear the costs of the proceedings. The next day, this statement will be read out in front of the court, as will a statement by the co-defendants that they will not raise the charge of improper conduct. Thereupon the verdict is announced: “The proceedings are closed. The defendant Schmeisser has to bear the costs of the proceedings. ”Until the film is finished, it is not possible to find out who has borne these costs.

Production and publication

The television film was released as the second episode of the television epitaval series and was broadcast on the DFF for the first time on February 7, 1960 .

The book was written by Walter Jupé , who also spoke the connecting texts, based on authentic court records. Aenne Keller was responsible for the dramaturgy .

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