Gerhard Riege

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Gerhard Riege, 1990

Gerhard Riege (born May 23, 1930 in Graefenroda ; † February 15, 1992 in Geunitz , Reinstädt municipality ) was a German legal scholar and politician ( Kulturbund / PDS ).

Education and scientific activity

After elementary school and advanced school in Neudietendorf , Riege obtained his Abitur in Jena in 1949 and studied law there. After the state examination in 1953, he became an assistant at the law faculty. The doctorate in 1957 with the thesis “The Representation System in the People's Democratic Countries in Europe” was followed seven years later by the habilitation with the thesis “Citizenship of the GDR” . In 1964 he became a lecturer and in the following year professor for public law at the University of Jena . In the Jenenser university election on February 23, 1990, Riege was initially elected as rector, but the election had to be repeated due to formal errors. Riege did not compete anymore.

politics

In 1946 they joined the SED and remained a member of the PDS after 1990. For the Kulturbund he sat in the Gera district assembly , for the PDS in 1990 in the first freely elected People's Chamber . In the same year he entered the 12th German Bundestag via the Thuringian state list of his party . From 1954 to 1960 he worked as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . After signing the declaration of commitment , he delivered a total of reports, with no damage to other people being documented. The federal commissioner for the Stasi files Joachim Gauck assessed Riege's IM activity as "rather meaningless". Riege stated that he did not remember a declaration of commitment. He told the PDS parliamentary group that he had no longer thought about his work in the Stasi. The party then accused him of "dishonesty" and his regional association distanced itself from him. On February 15, 1992, he hanged himself in his garden. In a farewell letter to his wife, he wrote that he was afraid of the hatred that hit him in the Bundestag “from the mouths and eyes and attitudes of people”.

The suicide triggered cross-party consternation. For example, the Thuringian state parliament president Gottfried Müller ( CDU ) then declared in his letter of condolence to Riege's widow that the absolutely necessary coming to terms with the past had to be dealt with in a fairer, more humane and politically wiser manner.

family

Riege was married and had three children. His daughter Katharina has published a biography about Hans Mahle .

Awards

Publications

  • The role of the elections in the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1958
  • Two states, two citizenships , Berlin 1967
  • with Paul Fiedler . The Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the university reform . Berlin 1969
  • The citizen in the socialist state , Berlin 1973
  • with Hans-Jürgen Kulke , nationality German, citizenship GDR . Berlin 1979
  • On the history and function of political and personal basic rights in the GDR. Study , Jena 1984
  • Ed., Documents on Thuringian constitutional law. 1920-1952 . Stuttgart 1991
  • with Uwe-Jens Heuer , The rule of law - a legend? Experiences of two legal scholars in 1990/91 in the Volkskammer and Bundestag . Baden-Baden 1992

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Riege  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New wall victim . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1992 ( online ).
  2. ^ A b c Kürschner's People's Handbook of the German Bundestag, 12th electoral period , 63rd edition, Rheinbreitbach 1991, p. 203
  3. ↑ Michael Ploenus, Innerer Aufbruch und Reform - Die Wende at the University of Jena 1988–1991 (PDF; 95 kB) In: die hochschule 1/2002, p. 134ff., Accessed on April 27, 2009
  4. ↑ Udo Grashoff : "In an attack of depression ..." suicides in the GDR. P. 255ff ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Dorit Pries: Stasi employees in German parliaments?: The review of the members of parliament for cooperation with the state security service of the former GDR. P. 303 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ a b Udo Grashoff: "In an attack of depression ..." suicides in the GDR. P. 254 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Gunter Hofmann: Being close as thanks . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/1992
  8. ↑ We are now experiencing a Witches Sabbath . ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 1992
  9. ↑ Katharina Riege: Committed to a dream - Hans Mahle, VSA: Hamburg, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89965-038-7
personal data
SURNAME Riege, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (PDS), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenroda
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1992
Place of death Geunitz