Frank Osterloh

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Frank Osterloh (born August 14, 1941 in Berlin ; † June 10, 2004 ) was a full-time employee of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). For many years he was a lieutenant colonel in the central remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . In the 1990s, Osterloh appeared as a defender in high-profile criminal proceedings against leading members of the MfS and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

Childhood and youth

After graduating from high school, Osterloh first went to the National People's Army (NVA) for three years . In 1967 he completed a law degree with a degree in law. In the same year he became investigative officer with the Military Prosecutor's Office and two years later with the Ministry of National Defense .

Stasi career

Osterloh joined the MfS in 1971. In the investigation department (main department IX) he took care of fundamental "legal issues", initially as an "operational employee", later as an "officer for special tasks". In 1980 the University of the Ministry for State Security in Potsdam received his doctorate for participation in a joint dissertation on the fight against so-called underground political activity in the GDR under the title “Political and international law aspects of the work of the MfS on the offensive rejection of state organs and enemy institutions meddling in internal affairs in the GDR “on the Dr. jur. To this end, Osterloh helped prepare three political trials in which the GDR regime critic and conscientious objector Nico Huebner was sentenced to five years in prison and two escape helpers to twelve years each. In 1981 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and from 1982 he was group leader. Since summer 1989 Osterloh was secretary of the basic SED organization in the investigation department.

Life after 1990

After the dissolution of the MfS, Osterloh set up as a freelance lawyer in the GDR . After German reunification he represented a . a. Stasi perpetrators such as Mielke deputy Gerhard Neiber , head of Department VIII Albert Schubert and the Stasi psychiatrist Horst Böttger . In 1999 the Berlin judicial administration rejected an application for the revocation of the license to practice law, which a person convicted of twelve years imprisonment during the course of Osterloh's doctorate with his assistance had made, on the grounds that Osterloh's part in the collective dissertation was not recognizable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cf. Roman Grafe : German Justice - Trials against GDR border guards and their commanders , Munich 2004, p. 156f.
  2. ↑ See Detlef Kühn: The All-German Institute in the Visier der Staatssicherheit , Berlin 2008, p. 10. Online version ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 381 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  3. ↑ a b cf. Hubertus Knabe : The perpetrators are among us. About the glossing over of the SED dictatorship . Propylaea, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-549-07302-5 , p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Osterloh, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, full-time employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2004