Günther Nollau

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Günther Nollau (born June 4, 1911 in Leipzig ; † November 7, 1991 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and the third President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life

Nollau's father was a building officer in Leipzig. Nollau grew up in Dresden and attended grammar school and university there . He completed his law studies with a dissertation on the subject of the essence of bankruptcy determination . After his admission to the bar in Dresden, he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War and lost his right eye in an accident on Crete in 1941 . In 1942 Nollau joined the NSDAP ( membership number 8,974,972). The doctor of law began his professional career in 1942 as a lawyer in the German-occupied General Government in Krakow .

After the end of the war he had a law firm in Dresden . There Nollau joined the Eastern CDU at the end of 1945 . He defended there u. a. One of the main defendants in the Dresden medical trial , Alfred Schulz , for drug euthanasia during the war in the Großschweidnitz sanatorium . Schulz died during the trial as a result of a suicide . When Nollau was asked by a member of the State Security Service to question a witness at the police headquarters in 1950 because of an unsolved murder in 1946 , he fled to West Berlin .

In West Berlin, Nollau joined the investigative committee of freedom lawyers , which also helped him in the summer of 1950 to bring his wife Irmgard and three daughters Sabine, Sybille and Franziska to catch up. After a job at RIAS failed, Nollau joined the newly established Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne in September 1950. In 1962 he became its vice-president. In 1970 Nollau moved to a ministerial director position in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . According to Reinhard Gehlen's recordings , Nollau was considered "SPD candidate number 1" to fill the position of Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service , but had to be rejected for security reasons. In 1972 Nollau returned to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and had been its President since May 1, succeeding Hubert Schrübbers . He had to resign because of his role during the Nazi era. In temporal association with the affair around the HVA - spy Guenter Guillaume Nollau was in on 15 September 1975 hiatus added. It was known that he was in close contact with the then SPD parliamentary group leader Herbert Wehner . In the committee of inquiry set up to investigate the Guillaume matter, disagreements arose over the question of Genscher's timely notification by Nollau.

Nollau had the reputation of an astute analyst and was known as an author of political books: in 1959 his book Die Internationale was published. Roots and manifestations of proletarian internationalism . In 1963 world communism collapsed. Unity or polycentrism . After that ten more works by him appeared.

Works (selection)

  • The international. Roots and manifestations of proletarian internationalism. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne a. a. 1959.
  • Disintegration of world communism. Unit or polycentrism (= information. Volume 5, ZDB -ID 845287-8 ). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne a. a. 1963.
  • with Hans-Jürgen Wiehe: Red traces in the Orient. Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1963.
  • The Comintern. From internationalism to Stalin's dictatorship (= Federal Agency for Political Education. Series of publications. Issue 63, ISSN  0435-7604 ). Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 1964.
  • How safe is Germany? Bertelsmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-570-02689-2 .
  • with Ludwig Zindel: Gestapo calls Moscow. Soviet parachute agents in World War II. Blanvalet, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7645-0386-6 .
  • The office: 50 years of witness to history. In: Der Spiegel , 1978, No. 50–52, extracts 1 , extracts 2 , extracts 3 .
  • The silent power. Secret services after World War II. 2 volumes. Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart u. a. 1985, ISBN 3-87070-233-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nollau Affair: Ambushed attack . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1974 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Reinhard Gehlen: classified information . v. Hase & Koehler Verlag KG, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7758-0997-9 .
  3. ^ “Gehlen Manuscript” in CIA Collection: Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
  4. ^ Nollau: How it came to the fall of the Chancellor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1977 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Birgit Boge: The beginnings of Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Joseph Caspar Witsch and the establishment of the publishing house (1948–1959) (=  scientific contributions from the German Book Archive in Munich . Volume 78 ). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06001-1 , p. 434 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Nollau, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and the third President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1991
Place of death Munich