Götz Schlicht
Götz Schlicht , originally Heinz Götz Davidsohn (born March 9, 1908 in Schmargendorf ; † January 12, 2006 in Berlin-Nikolassee ) was a German employee of the Investigative Committee of Freedom Lawyers (UFJ) and an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .
Life
David's son laid in 1926 at the Potsdamer Goethe School , the High School and studied at the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms University Heads of State and Law , where he in 1930 the first and 1946 the great state examination was. Because of his origins, he was persecuted as a so-called “quarter Jew” during the Nazi era for racist reasons. That's why he was after the takeover of the National Socialists dismissed from the judicial service. After that he worked for a publishing house.
In World War II he became in 1940 the police moved in, received an officer's rank and was chief of staff of a police battalion . In this function, Schlicht was involved in the "covering of the traces of the mass graves of Nazi victims" in the German-occupied Ukraine .
After the end of the war and as a prisoner of war , Götz Schlicht was employed as a judge in the SBZ in the state of Brandenburg . He was also used in the training of people's judges. Schlicht received his doctorate in 1949 from the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Through his acquaintance with Walther Rosenthal , he joined the UFJ. In 1952 his UFJ activity was noticed. He was arrested and ten years ' imprisonment convicted. While he was still in prison in May 1957, Götz Schlicht was recruited by the MfS. He was released early and was given the task of seeking a permanent position at the UFJ through his connection to Walther Rosenthal. To this end, he and his family left for West Berlin on June 11, 1957 . In July 1957, Schlicht was hired by the UFJ. At first he worked in the mornings in the Marienfelde refugee camp and in the afternoons in the UFJ's office building in the civil law department . He worked on the cases of more than 30,000 refugees who were routinely questioned in Berlin-Marienfelde not only about the reasons for fleeing, but also about the escape route and the escape helpers. Götz Schlicht's reports to the East German MfS contained pages of the names and addresses of refugees . Because of the information he provided, people were arrested in the GDR. In the first five years of his activity alone, ten arrests were made by his informers.
Later he also worked as an editor. After taking over the UFJ in the All-German Institute of the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations , he worked as an editor for the magazine Recht in Ost und West .
His work for the MfS from 1957 to 1989 as IM “Dr. Lutter ”only became known in 1993. Previously, he had in 1985, the Order of Merit of the Federal Order of Merit in 1991 received the band and the Cross of Merit, First Class. The GDR awarded Götz Schlicht the GDR Medal of Merit and the gold medal for the battle for “For Merit to People and Fatherland” .
Publications
- Suspicion in property law , 1949
- The family and family procedure law of the GDR. Erdmann publishing house, Tübingen 1970
- The GDR , Volume 3: Woman, Family and Work , 1974
literature
- Siegfried Mampel : The underground struggle of the Ministry for State Security against the investigative committee of freedom lawyers in Berlin (West) (PDF; 4.9 MB). Series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the GDR, Volume 1, 1999, ISBN 3-934085- 06-7
- Detlef Kühn: The All-German Institute in the sights of the State Security (PDF; 381 kB) . Series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Volume 13, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-934085-11-4
- Arik K. Komets-Chimirri: Götz Schlicht. In the service of three dictatorships. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95410-038-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Götz Schlicht in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siegfried Mampel: The underground fight of the Ministry for State Security against the investigative committee of freedom lawyers in Berlin (West) ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.9 MB), 1999, p. 90
- ↑ Joachim Nawrocki: The counselor was a traitor . In: Die Zeit , issue of August 13, 1993
- ↑ Cf. Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955: conformity and adjustment in a state justice system. Munich 2001, p. 34, ISBN 3-486-56532-X .
- ^ BZ Online of April 13, 2003
- ↑ a b Siegfried Mampel: The underground struggle of the Ministry for State Security against the investigative committee of freedom lawyers in Berlin (West)( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.9 MB), 1999, p. 96
- ^ The zealous colleagues of the Stasi informant Kurras
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simple, Götz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davidsohn, Heinz Götz; Dr. Lutter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agent of the GDR State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmargendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2006 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Nikolassee |