Fritz Streletz
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
- Karl Marx Order
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, silver, gold and gold medal
- Scharnhorst Order (awarded twice)
- Battle medals "For services to the people and fatherland" in bronze
- Hero of work
- Honored Member of the People's National Army
- Honored People's Policeman of the German Democratic Republic
- Medal of Merit of the GDR
- Gold Medal of Merit of the National People's Army (awarded four times)
- Gold medal of merit of the organs of the Ministry of the Interior
- Gold medal of merit of the fighting groups of the working class
- Medal of Merit of the Deutsche Reichsbahn level III
- Decoration of honor of the German People's Police
- Medal for exemplary border service
- Gold Medal of the Brotherhood of Arms (awarded twice)
- Medal for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the GDR
- Medal for loyal service in the National People's Army in bronze, silver, gold and special grade
- Medal for faithful service in the barracked people's police
Rest
- Order of the Red Banner of the USSR
- Order of Friendship between Nations
- Order of the Rebirth of Poland 4th class
- Order of the Red Star ČSSR
- Order for Military Merit 1st Class of the SFR Yugoslavia
- Order of Rafidain 3rd Class of the Republic of Iraq
- Order of Merit of the Arab Republic 1st Class
- Polish Medal of the Brotherhood of Arms, People's Republic of Poland
- Medal "For strengthening the brotherhood in arms" 2nd class ČSSR
- Medal "For the Strengthening of the Brotherhood in Arms" (People's Republic of Bulgaria)
- Hungarian Gold Medal of the Brotherhood of Arms (People's Republic of Hungary)
- Medal "30. Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 "
- Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medal "30th Anniversary of the Slovak Uprising"
- Medal "30 years of the Bulgarian People's Army"
- Medal "50th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Army"
Fonts
- (with Heinz Keßler ): The crimes of NATO. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-933544-29-7 .
- (with Heinz Keßler ): Without the wall there would have been war. Two contemporary witnesses remember . Edition Ost , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-01825-0 .
literature
- Roman Grafe : German Justice . Trials against GDR border guards and their commanders. Siedler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88680-819-X .
- Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. 4th edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 .
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Streletz, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Streletz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Streletz on ddr-wissen.de
- Fritz Streletz , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 27/2001 from June 25, 2001 (lm). Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 19/2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Ehlert , Armin Wagner: Comrade General! The GDR military elite in biographical sketches. Ch Links Verlag, Berlin, 2003
- ^ 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
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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 |