Hans Langemann (lawyer)

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Hans Georg Langemann (* 1925 ; † 2004 ) was a German lawyer who was the focus of an intelligence affair in the early 1980s .

Life

Hans Langemann grew up in Westphalia . After his labor service he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 and deployed as a Fahnenjunker NCO on the Eastern Front during World War II . In July 1944 he suffered a head injury and was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1945. He was then signed up as an interpreter by the British Army until 1948 .

From 1949 Langemann studied law at the University of Münster , later he was an assistant to Hans von Hentig at the University of Bonn .

In 1955 he published an article on homosexuality and the threat to the state in the journal Kriminalistik . In 1956 he did his doctorate on the subject of The Assassination - an area that would later occupy him several times. At the beginning of 1957, Langemann passed the second state examination . In November 1957 he became a government assessor at the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Pullach , where he carried the service name “Dr. Lückrath ". When Reinhard Gehlen , President of the BND, retired in 1968, Langemann was transferred to the embassy in Rome as a resident .

In 1972 he was appointed "foreign intelligence advisor" to the Olympic Committee at the Olympic Games in Munich and in 1973 he was appointed head of Department I F in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior , which was responsible for the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

After the Oktoberfest attack on September 26, 1980, he gave the name of the main suspect to the magazine Quick just a few hours after the act, which warned his alleged helpers from the right-wing extremist circles around the military sports group Hoffmann .

On 26 March 1982 Langemann was arrested on suspicion that he had confidential information about the BND operation Eva to the journal actually passed. After their publication, there was a considerable scandal, which went down in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany as the Langemann affair and was the subject of a total of three investigative committees in the Bavarian state parliament . On November 9, 1984, he was sentenced to nine months probation on these charges. Only a medical certificate that certified that he suffered from severe mood swings, depression , crying fits and memory lapses saved him from an expected higher sentence .

Fonts

  • Crime and the sensational press. In: Criminology. 1955, pp. 403-404.
  • About the explosives attack. In: Criminology. 1955, p. 325 ff.
  • Political crimes and criminal investigation. In: Die Polizei / Polizei Praxis, 1956, pp. 137 ff.
  • The assassination. A forensic study of political capital crime. Kriminalistik-Verlag, Hamburg 1957.

Literature and film

Langemann's role in the investigation into the Oktoberfest attack on September 26, 1980 is taken up in the feature film The Blind Spot , which ARD broadcast on February 4, 2015 together with a subsequent documentary. Langemann is portrayed in it by Heiner Lauterbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Mauz: Just go, go, I have to write. In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 of November 12, 1984, p. 125.
  2. ↑ Snoopers without a nose . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1995 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Susanne Härpfer: About files that have disappeared and memories that have returned . In: Telepolis . May 11, 2008
  4. ↑ Six times very well . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1982 ( online ).
  5. ↑ BONN Investigates SECURITY OFFICIAL John Vinocur, March 4 1982.NYTimes
  6. ↑ Overview of the committees of inquiry since 1946 , here 9th and 10th electoral periods, accessed on May 20, 2015.
  7. ^ Daniel Harrich , Ulrich Chaussy : Assassin - Single Perpetrator? News about the Oktoberfest attack on the ARD media library, accessed on February 5, 2015, available until February 3, 2025.
  8. ^ Paul Katzenberger: The messenger is killed. Süddeutsche.de, February 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Langemann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langemann, Hans Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret service agent, head of the Bavarian constitution protection
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
DATE OF DEATH 2004