Günter Kröber

Günter Kröber (born January 12, 1928 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ) and former member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Günter Kröber completed his schooling in 1946. He then studied 1946-1950 Law at the University of Leipzig , where he spent two years the student council at Wolfgang Natonek belonged. Because of the confession “What is morally bad, reprehensible, cannot be politically good”, he was threatened with withdrawal of the scholarship and de- registration in 1947 . However, he could avert both. In 1951 and 1952 he was in the legal preparatory service. From 1953 he worked as a lawyer.

In 1955 Kröber was arrested for an alleged crime against the VE Act and expelled from the legal profession in the same year. In 1956 he was acquitted and rehabilitated as a lawyer. In 1961 he was arrested again during a trip to Yugoslavia and imprisoned by the Ministry of Justice of the GDR for subversive behavior and excluded from the legal profession. In 1962 he was sentenced to two years in prison by the Leipzig District Court for violating the passport law, he was accused of planned “ illegal border crossing ”.

In 1963 Kröber was sales manager at the assembly plant in Leipzig. From 1966 to 1990 he was legal advisor of the Association of State-Owned Department Stores in Leipzig. In 1970 he did his doctorate with the thesis "Introduction of Buyer Rights in the GDR Civil Code". A party expulsion process from the SED was then initiated against his doctoral supervisor at the law faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig because he had disregarded the teachings of the Soviet Union. However, since GDR economic functionaries supported Kröber's theses and suggestions to strengthen the international reputation of the GDR consumer goods industry, the work had no consequences for him or his doctoral supervisor. In 1990 Kröber was rehabilitated as a lawyer by the last Justice Minister of the GDR and by the Rehabilitation Senate at the Leipzig District Court. Since 1990 he has been working as a lawyer in Leipzig. Kröber has been a board member of the Saxony Bar Association since 1995, its president since 2001 and its honorary president since 2008.

From 2005 to 2009 Kröber was the representative of the Presidium of the Federal Bar Association for Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

Kröber was also a member of the Saxon Constitutional Court from 1995 to 1998 . He was a member of the federal executive committee of the Union of the Stalinist Persecuted. V. (BSV) and Chairman of the State Association of Saxony of the BSV. In addition, he was a member of the Executive Board from 1991 to 1995 and then a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk until 2013 .

Kröber is a member of the jury of the Association of Liberal Academics for the award of the Arno Esch Prize .

politics

Günter Kröber was a member of the LDP from 1946 . In 1950 he was a member of the state executive committee of the LDP in Saxony and the LDP university committee for the GDR. Also in 1950 he became a member of the Saxon state parliament as a successor candidate and was the youngest member of the LDP parliamentary group. In 1951 and 1952, Kröber was the organizational leader in the Leipzig-Stadt district board of the LDP. In 1961 he was expelled from the LDPD because of anti-state behavior.

In 1989 he was one of the co-founders of the Eastern FDP , of which he was a member of the Saxon state board until it was united with the Western FDP, the LDPD, the NDPD and the German Forum Party . In October 1990, Günter Kröber was elected to the Saxon state parliament via the state list, to which he belonged for an electoral period until 1994. He worked there, among other things, in the constitutional and legal committee. From 1990 to 1993 he was parliamentary group chairman of the FDP in the Saxon state parliament and from 1994 to 1998 deputy state chairman of the FDP Saxony .

Awards

On May 26, 1998, Kröber was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal by Erich Iltgen, President of the State Parliament . He is also the holder of the Saxon Order of Merit as well as the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Badge of Honor of the German Bar. In 1993 he received the Thomas Dehler Prize .

Since November 8, 2012, Kröber has been the first to be awarded the "Golden Robe" of the Leipzig Lawyers' Association. The Criminal Law Working Group of the German Lawyers' Association honored Kröber with the honorary award "pro reo" on November 14, 2015 for his outstanding and long-term commitment to the rights of the accused in the GDR and in unified Germany.

On April 26, 2018, Kröber was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig at a ceremony.

literature

• Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994. People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 41 (Committee: p. 80) (as of May 1991).
• Short biography for:  Kröber, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Menke-Glückert : What is morally bad cannot be politically good . In: VLA -Rundbrief , issue 1/2008, p. 3 ff.
2. ↑ ARNO ESCH Award - Association of liberal academics . In: Association of Liberal Academics . ( liberale-akademiker.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).