Fritz Streletz

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Fritz Streletz (1982)

Fritz Streletz (born September 28, 1926 in Friedrichsgrätz , Opole district ) was Colonel General , Deputy Minister for National Defense , Chief of the Main Staff of the National People's Army and Secretary of the National Defense Council . As co-responsible for the border regime at the Berlin Wall , he was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for manslaughter.

Life

Streletz attended elementary school in Friedrichsgrätz and Eschenrode from 1933 to 1941 . From 1941 to 1943 he was a non-commissioned officer in Deggendorf and from 1944 to 1945 he was a non-commissioned officer in the Wehrmacht . From February 1945 to October 1948 Streletz was in Soviet captivity . In October 1948 he joined the German People's Police (DVP), began his service as a sergeant in the VP readiness in Zerbst , started an officer career and was made Colonel of the Barracked People's Police by 1956 .

In 1948 Streletz became a member of the SED . In 1951/1952 he completed a course for regimental commanders in the USSR . From 1959 to 1961 he studied at the General Staff Academy in the USSR , then from 1961 to 1964 he was Chief of Staff in Military District III ( Leipzig ).

Streletz was appointed major general in 1964 and was deputy to the chief of the NVA's main staff and chief of operational administration from 1964 to 1978 . In 1969 he was promoted to lieutenant general. From 1971 to 1989 he was the successor to Erich Honecker Secretary of the National Defense Council . On January 1, 1979 he was appointed Deputy Minister for National Defense and Chief of Staff, and on October 7, 1979 he was promoted to Colonel General. From 1979 to December 31, 1989 Streletz also served as the deputy commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact armed forces . The Central Committee of the SED belonged fritz streletz 1981-1989 as a member. Streletz defended the violent demarcation of the GDR from the West into old age.

Manslaughter conviction

On May 20, 1991 Streletz was arrested on behalf of the Berlin public prosecutor. He spent 28 months in pre-trial detention in Moabit correctional facility and was first charged on February 2, 1992. The trial before the Berlin Regional Court began on 12 November 1992. Streletz was the Berlin Regional Court as co-responsible of the border regime at the Berlin Wall into the wall protecting processes of incitement to murder found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five years and six months. The revision of the public prosecutor's office led to a conviction by the Federal Court of Justice for manslaughter with unchanged sentences. In March 2001 the European Court of Human Rights rejected Streletz's complaint. He was released early on October 25, 1997.

Orders, decorations and awards

German Democratic Republic

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Web links

Commons : Fritz Streletz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ehlert , Armin Wagner: Comrade General! The GDR military elite in biographical sketches. Ch Links Verlag, Berlin, 2003
  2. ^ Klaus Marxen : Criminal justice and GDR injustice: abuse of office and corruption. Walter de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 9783110174403 , p. 366. limited preview in Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Streletz, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, Deputy Minister for National Defense, Chief of the Main Staff of the NVA and Secretary of the National Defense Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsgrätz , Opole district