Hans Albrecht (politician, 1919)

Hans Albrecht (1989)

Hans Albrecht (born November 22, 1919 in Bochum ; † March 27, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German politician in the GDR and first secretary of the SED district leadership in the Suhl district . In the wall rifle trials he was sentenced to five years and one month imprisonment for manslaughter .

Life

Albrecht came from a working class family in the Ruhr area . A few months after his training as a locksmith , he was for the duration of World War II to the Air Force of the Armed Forces confiscated.

After the war, Albrecht settled in Saxony, worked as a heating fitter and joined the SPD in Bennewitz, where he lived. From 1946 he was an employee, later until 1949 secretary of the district committee of the new SED in Grimma . In 1950 he attended the party college of the SED . Subsequently, from 1951 his stations were Frankfurt (Oder) , Eberswalde and Stalinstadt , where he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership and from 1954 also worked in the SED district leadership of Frankfurt / Oder . In the same year he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED (ZK). He held this status until 1963, after which he was a full member of the Central Committee.

Since 1958 chairman of the district economic council and member of the district assembly , in 1960 he became chairman of the council of the Frankfurt / Oder district. From 1963 he completed a two-year course at the industrial institute of the Bergakademie Freiberg , from which he graduated with a degree in engineering and economics. After completing his studies in Freiberg, he became the first deputy chairman of the workers and peasants inspection of the GDR. In August 1968 he succeeded Otto Funke as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl , which he remained for 21 years until 1989. Albrecht had other functions as a member of the presidium in the German-Arab Society of the GDR and from 1971 as a member of the People's Chamber . He was also a member and deputy chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR . In 1974 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold, in 1979 the Karl Marx Order .

On December 3, 1989, Albrecht was expelled from the Central Committee and the SED.

Law enforcement after the turnaround

Conviction for abuse of office and infidelity

After the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Albrecht was arrested for abuse of office and infidelity . In October 1992 he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment by the Meiningen Regional Court for inciting unfaithfulness. The punishment he did not have to compete because he already has more than half the time in custody had served.

Manslaughter conviction

After the reunification of Germany, he was given a further arrest warrant in May 1991 in the course of the wall rifle trials . In the context of the trials against former members of the National Defense Council of the GDR , he was indicted before the Superior Court in Berlin. On September 16, 1993, he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for incitement to manslaughter . The judgment was changed in the appeal by the Federal Court of Justice on July 26, 1994 to manslaughter as an indirect perpetrator and the sentence increased to five years and one month. Since Albrecht's defense filed a constitutional complaint , he initially remained free. On November 12, 1996, the Federal Constitutional Court rejected Albrecht and others' constitutional complaints. The killing of refugees is the most serious injustice that excludes the justification of those responsible by GDR laws. Albrecht was serving his sentence in a Berlin penal institution.

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Albrecht, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Criminal justice and GDR injustice: acts of violence on the German-German border, p. 599ff
2. ↑ chronikderwende.de