Hans-Peter Rullmann

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Hans-Peter Rullmann (born October 1, 1934 in Hamburg ; † January 29, 2000 there ) was a German journalist , publicist and political prisoner .

Life

After studying economics , he worked from 1959 - first in Ljubljana , then in Belgrade  - as a Balkan correspondent for German newspapers and radio stations, especially for Der Spiegel . There he was arrested in March 1970 and sentenced to six years imprisonment for alleged military espionage for the Warsaw Pact , but was released on appeal in June 1971 and returned to Germany. The co-accused journalist from the Albanian-language Yugoslav newspaper Rilindja was also released and rehabilitated. As it turned out later, Rullmann's arrest had apparently been ordered by the then Yugoslav Interior Minister Radovan Stijačić as a diversionary maneuver, because Stijačić himself was later expelled from the party as an Eastern Bloc sympathizer.

Later Rullmann was editor of the Ost-Dienst , an information service that dealt critically with Yugoslavia and largely represented the positions of right-wing Croatian exile activists. By 1980 at the latest he was in contact with the Croatian right-wing extremist Dobroslav Paraga . He founded the German-Croatian Society e. V. and was its chairman for many years. He published the magazine Hrvatska domovina (Croatian homeland). In 1990 he was named Croatian Man of the Year by a Croatian exile organization in Los Angeles . He was an expert before German administrative courts on asylum issues and wrote several brochures and books. In the wars of Yugoslavia , he took the side of the Croatians and Bosnians in conservative and right-wing newspapers such as Europa vor and Ostpreußenblatt , whom he viewed as victims of Serbian aggression, but increasingly withdrew from the subject when hostilities between Croats and Bosnians became apparent.

In 1984 he founded the homosexual regional magazine Hamburger Gay Information in Hamburg . In 1995 he largely withdrew from his journalistic activities and lived mainly in Agadir ( Morocco ).

Works

  • Murder order from Belgrade: Documentation about the Belgrade murder machine . Ost-Dienst, Hamburg 1980 (English, 1981 and Croatian, 1984).
  • Tito  : From partisan to statesman . 2nd edition, 1980, ISBN 3-442-11288-5
  • Lech Walesa  : The gentle revolutionary . 1981, ISBN 3-442-11321-0
  • The "Conspiracy": Croatian Torture Documents . Ost-Dienst, Hamburg 1981.
  • Who are they, the Croatians? Ost-Dienst, Hamburg 1981.
  • Tourism in Yugoslavia below the "Eastern Bloc level" . Ost-Dienst, Hamburg 1984.
  • German-Croatian Society V. (Ed.): Why don't the Yugos go home? : Problems of the guest workers from Yugoslavia, especially the Croats, in the Federal Republic of Germany and with the unloved homeland of Yugoslavia . Hamburg 1985.
  • The Demjanjuk Case  : On the Evidence and Political Background of the Jerusalem Trial . 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 3-922314-75-9
  • Balkans crisis hotspot: Yugoslavia falls apart . Facta, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-926827-17-0
  • This is how Yugoslavia ends: the events of Kosova; Timeline; Appeal to the world public . Hamburg 1990.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. The Rullmann case . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/1971. Daumier - and an end . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1971 ( online ). Outside another door . In: Der Spiegel . No.  41 , 1971 ( online ).
  2. ^ Re: Rullmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1971 ( online ). Hilmi Thaci . In: Der Spiegel . No.  4 , 1973 ( online ).
  3. Leader in the Underground . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1975 ( online ).
  4. Bernd Siegler: Verbal ammunition against liberalism and multiculturalism . In: taz , July 22, 1992; see also apabiz.de