Günther Wieland

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Günther Wieland (born April 16, 1931 in Oberlungwitz ; † January 13, 2004 ) was a German lawyer. He was 1963-1990 prosecutor in the Attorney General's Office of the GDR .

Life

As the son of a worker, he attended elementary school from 1937 to 1945. In the following years he completed training as a legal assistant, which he completed in 1948. He then attended the workers 'and farmers' faculties at the universities in Chemnitz and Greifswald from 1949 to 1952 , with which he graduated from high school. He then began studying law at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he completed in 1956 with the examination to become a qualified lawyer.

Politically, Wieland had already been active in an anti-fascist youth committee in 1945. The following year he became a member of the FDJ . From 1949 he was a member of the SED . From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a public prosecutor in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . From 1963 to 1990 he worked as a public prosecutor at the General Public Prosecutor's Office in the GDR with the prosecution of Nazi and war criminals. He was responsible for coordinating the legal prosecution of Nazi criminals within the GDR, including international legal assistance in this field.

In 1989 he obtained his doctorate as Dr. jur. with the text The Crimes of the Nazi People's Court and the contribution of the German Democratic Republic to their punishment , which was published as a book in the GDR in the same year. From December 1989 to January 1991 he held the office of chairman of the arbitration commission in the SED / PDS. After he retired in 1990, he continued to research the history of the persecution of Nazi perpetrators, including the role of the Ministry of State Security , which was responsible for investigating these crimes in the GDR from 1968 onwards .

He wrote several essays and writings on the punishment of Nazi perpetrators as mandatory international law . In addition, he analyzed the connection between the Reichstag fire process and the creation of the National Socialist People's Court . Until his death he worked as an expert on the publication of the volumes GDR Justice and Nazi Crimes , which were published in Amsterdam, and which are divided into ten volumes.

Fonts

  • The normative bases of protective custody in Hitler Germany . In: Yearbook for History , Berlin 1982
  • Right in our time . Berlin 1986
  • The Nuremberg Trial of the Century. Nazi and war criminals in court. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-329-00125-9 .
  • That was the People's Court. Investigations, facts, documents. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-329-00483-5 .
  • Klaus Drobisch , Günther Wieland: System of Nazi concentration camps, 1933–1939. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-000823-7 ( books.google.com )
  • Joachim Stephan Hohmann, Günther Wieland: MfS operative process "devil". Euthanasia doctor Otto Hebold in court. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-926893-07-9 .
  • Nazi crimes and German criminal justice. Edition Organon, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931034-07-0 . review
  • Together with Joachim S. Hohmann (editor): Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg 1939 to 1944: The records of the concentration camp inmate Rudolf Wunderlich . Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt 2015, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-631-66528-2 .

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SURNAME Wieland, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and public prosecutor in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlungwitz
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2004