Günter Sarge

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Günter Sarge (born December 30, 1930 in Gutenfeld ; also Günther Sarge ; † March 5, 2019 in Grünheide ) was a German lawyer , President of the Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic and Major General of the National People's Army (NVA).

Life

The son of a worker grew Samland Arnau on. He attended elementary school until 1945. After the expulsion , when he was separated from his family, he was placed in a children's home in Graal-Müritz . In 1948 he met his family again in Tutow, Mecklenburg .

Sarge was initially a farm worker in Havelland . On March 17, 1949, he joined the German People's Police (VP), where he completed an officer training course. He was first active in Brandenburg-Görden in the 4th police readiness of the state of Brandenburg. His unit was moved to Dessau in September 1949 and to Apolda in Thuringia in the spring of 1950 , where the unit was dissolved in December 1950 without giving any reason.

In September 1949, Sarge was promoted to chief sergeant, on May 1, 1950 to police master, in the same year to high commissioner and in 1951 to the People's Police Council. In the same year he became a political teacher in Naumburg.

From March 1, 1953, Sarge attended a special legal course for people's police in Dresden , which was intended to prepare him for use in military justice. After completing the course in December 1953, he was assigned to the judicial supervision department at the headquarters of the Kasernierte People's Police (KVP) and delegated to the prison of the Kasernierte People's Police in Berlin-Köpenick with the powers of a public prosecutor. In 1954 he became deputy head of the department Fritz Strauch. In 1956 he was appointed deputy head of the investigation department at the KVP and from April 30, 1956 at the NVA, appointed major , responsible for the establishment of military investigation groups and the military prosecutor's office. At the same time he had completed a correspondence course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht" from 1955 to 1958 . With the dissertation The Crime in the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic: Its causes and conditions and the means and methods for overcoming it took place in 1961 as a doctor of law (Dr. jur.) At the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1966 to 1971 he completed a distance learning course at the Karl Marx party college of the SED .

In June 1962, Sarges ended his work as a public prosecutor, as he was appointed chairman of the military college at the GDR Supreme Court.

Sarge has held various posts at the Supreme Court of the GDR since the 1960s. At first he was chairman of the military college from 1962 to 1977 while retaining his military rank. Since 1971 he has held the post of Vice President. In 1974 he was appointed major general. Since 1977, Sarge was the first vice president of the court. In 1977 he left the NVA. On June 17, 1986, he was appointed President of the court, succeeding Heinrich Toeplitz .

From 1985 to 1990 Sarge was President of the Association of Lawyers in the GDR.

On January 18, 1990, Sarge preceded the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by the People's Chamber, which was still dominated by the SED, by resigning from his office. She had accused him of delaying proceedings in the rehabilitation of those wrongly convicted in the 1950s and 1960s and in investigations against former party and state officials for corruption and abuse of office. After 1990, Sarge was admitted to the Berlin bar for a while . In 1993 Sarge was one of the co-founders of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV In his memoirs in 2013, Sarge described the time in various legal and military functions in the GDR from his personal point of view. In the FAZ it was then criticized that in his book he attributed the end of the GDR to an interplay of “treacherous Soviet leaders” with the American president and the Kohl government, “each flanked by their secret services”.

Sarge was married to Edeltraud Sarge (1931–2017) from 1952 to 2017 and last lived as a pensioner in Kagel .

Memberships

Sarge had been a member of the Free German Youth since 1946 and of the SED since 1950 .

Awards

Fonts

  • Wooden clogs and arabesques. 2nd Edition. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1981.
  • Public property - as far as concerns you. State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1982 (together with Herbert Pompoes).
  • In the service of law: the GDR's highest judge remembers. Edition Ost, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-360-01844-1 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , Märkische Oderzeitung from March 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .
  3. ↑ In the service of the law: The highest judge of the GDR remembers. Edition Ost, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-360-01844-1 , p. 67
  4. ↑ In the service of the law: The highest judge of the GDR remembers. Edition Ost, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-360-01844-1 , p. 69
  5. ↑ In the service of the law: The highest judge of the GDR remembers. Edition Ost, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-360-01844-1 , p. 82 f.
  6. ^ New Germany of February 19, 1974
  7. ↑ Birger Dölling: Execution of sentences between turning point and reunification. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-527-0 , p. 164 .; Becker (Lit.), p. 49
  8. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : What was right at Honecker ... Review in the FAZ from June 18, 2013
  9. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Neues Deutschland from November 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ Anke Beißer: 60 years of family happiness. In: Märkische Oderzeitung (local section Fürstenwalde) of July 26, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Sarge, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarge, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and military, President of the Supreme Court of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutenfeld , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2019
Place of death Grünheide