Gerhard Flämig

Paul Gerhard Flämig (born December 19, 1919 in Glauchau , Saxony, † September 18, 2011 in Böhl-Iggelheim , Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1957 to 1964 he was mayor of the city of Großauheim (today a part of Hanau ), from 1963 to 1980 a member of the German Bundestag and from 1970 to 1979 a member of the European Parliament .

He was also a functionary of the German Atomic Forum and the European Social Democratic Movement . Flämig was charged in 1993 on suspicion of being an agent for the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA) of the GDR Ministry for State Security , but the proceedings were discontinued without a judgment due to Flämig's inability to stand trial.

Life

Flämig grew up in Plauen in the Vogtland . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5.505.215). After graduating from high school, Flämig took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Air Force . Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans. After his release in 1946, he first settled in Seligenstadt , Hesse . He completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and from 1949 worked as an editor in Offenbach and Hanau.

Flämig joined the SPD in 1946 . From 1948 to 1957 he was City Councilor of Seligenstadt . He also belonged to the district council of the Offenbach district and from 1960 to 1964 of the Hanau district . From 1957 to 1964 he was the full-time mayor of Großauheim .

From February 15, 1963, when he replaced the deceased Jakob Altmaier , Flämig was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD for the Hanau constituency until 1980, and from 1970 to 1979 he was a member of the European Parliament's dual mandate and rapporteur for energy and research policy . From 1981 to 1983 he was a consultant for the EC Commission in Brussels .

From 1968 Gerhard Flämig was a member of the executive committee of the German Atomic Forum (DAtF), a lobby association for nuclear energy. From 1978 to 1991 Flämig was head of the DAtF's public relations and press working group.

From 1972 to 1987 he worked on an honorary basis as Vice-President of the Social Democratic European Movement based in Paris .

In addition, Flämig dealt with Hanau's local history and published a three-volume work on "Hanau in the Third Reich" from 1983-1991.

Unofficial employee of the Stasi

The Head Office of Enlightenment (HVA) of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR led Flämig as an unofficial employee and "O-Quelle" with the code names "Walter" and "Julius". Kurt Gailat and Walter Weichert were listed as his command officers . Flämig was recorded as the head of the "Evaluation Working Group" of Department II (Parties) of the HVA. The IMA (unofficial employee with special tasks) process for Flämig was set up in April 1966 and grew to 29 report volumes by the end of the 1980s. In his memoirs, HVA director Markus Wolf stated that he personally recruited Flämig in the summer of 1969 during a trip to the Soviet Union , “at the exact time when Willy Brandt became Federal Chancellor”.

The Federal Intelligence Service received information about Flämig's possible activities for the HVA in 1975 and informed the Federal Chancellery and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which is responsible for counter-espionage . However, this did not pursue the trail, which the secret service researcher Erich Schmidt-Eenboom attributes to party-political considerations.

In 1993, Flämig was charged with suspected secret service activity at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court . All the witnesses except for one witness who had never participated in the official talks unanimously stated that Flämig was not an “unofficial employee” but one of the numerous political contact persons of the Central Committee of the SED. The witness, a HO saleswoman who was temporarily on leave, had to accompany him on walks on behalf of the SED, “to shield him from the Stasi ”. Her had been led to believe that he is a trained in the GDR and in West inserted Agent . She believed that and testified in court. In January 1998 the court ordered Markus Wolf to be detained for three days in order to induce him to testify. The trial was dropped in July 1998 because of Flämig's permanent incapacity to stand trial.

The federal commissioner for the Stasi records , however, comes to the conclusion that the abundance, the content and the type of information received from Flämig speak against the fact that he was merely a political contact person. In view of the density of the data on the Flämig case in the Rosenholz files and the SIRA database (which were not yet available at the time of the espionage trial against Flämig in the 1990s), “there can hardly be any doubt about his deliberate collaboration with the MfS”.

On Flämig there are 957 entries of information, including 482 of a documentary nature. These include, for example, a letter from Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU), member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, to the committee chairman Gerhard Schröder (CDU) from 1970 about negotiations in the Federal Republic of the Soviet Union as well as several minutes of the Bundestag Committee for Research and Technology from 1976 to 1979. The HVA rated materials from the Bundestag Interior Committee on issues relating to the disposal of nuclear power plants (1977) and material from the Federal Minister of the Interior on protective measures in the field of nuclear safety as "particularly valuable" and Radiation Protection Against Terrorist Attacks (1978). In addition, Flämig provided documents from the nuclear industry and the European Parliament, reported on meetings of the SPD parliamentary group and internal matters.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1973)
• Silver plaque of honor of the city of Hanau (1979)
• Great Cross of Merit (1981)
• August Gaul plaque of the city of Hanau (1992)

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Flämig in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} page no longer available , search in web archives: "Important impulses set for Großauheim's development": Mayor Kaminksy praises the work of Gerhard Flämig.
2. ↑ "I will not forget my beloved Plauen" In: Vogtland-Anzeiger
3. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I - X legislative period of former NSDAP and / or branch memberships ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, accessed on November 24, 2011; 63 kB).
4. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs (ed.): Inofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security. Part 2: Instructions for working with agents, scouts and spies in the Federal Republic of Germany. (= Analyzes and Documents - Scientific Series of the Federal Commissioner , Volume 10). 2nd edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 208.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. (PDF) Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act. March 2013, p. 241 , archived from the original ; Retrieved November 8, 2013 . 
6. ↑ quoted from Hubertus Knabe : The undermined republic. Stasi in the west. Propylaea, 1999, p. 49; Peter F. Müller, Michael Mueller: Against friend and foe. The BND: Secret Politics and Dirty Business. Rowohlt, 2002, p. 451.
7. ^ Georg Herbstritt : German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 341–342.
8. ↑ Andreas Förster: Ex-espionage boss refused to testify about Stasi agents. The Frankfurt court takes Markus Wolf into custody. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 16, 1998.
9. ↑ August Gaul plaque on: hanau.de