Hans Rentmeister junior

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Hans Rentmeister (born February 1, 1940 in Duisburg ) was General Secretary of the International Sachsenhausen Committee . When his work for the Ministry for State Security (MfS) was discussed in the press , he resigned.

family

Rentmeister's parents were victims of fascism . His father Hans treasurer was sentenced by the Nazis for treason and high treason, he was therefore in the concentration camp KZ Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp . His mother was also convicted of high treason and treason by the Nazis and was sent to Hamm prison.

The father's grandmother and siblings were imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Börgermoor, Lichtenburg, Moringen, Mauthausen, penitentiaries / prisons Remscheid-Lüttringhausen, Butzbach, Mülheim an der Ruhr , Hamborn, Anrath, Elberfeld, Vernet (France), Saint-Cyprien Internment Camp, Amsterdam.

Life

Hans Rentmeister worked from 1960 as a sergeant and later in the rank of first lieutenant in the state security. From 1966 to 1969 he studied law at the University of the Ministry for State Security in Potsdam . According to Spiegel , he taught as a lawyer at the Stasi University and had received monetary prizes and awards from the Ministry for State Security. From December 1989 to March 1990 he was government commissioner for the Modrow government in the Rostock district .

In 2001 Rentmeister elected representatives of the former prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 18 countries as general secretary of the International Sachsenhausen Committee . In April 2006, he publicly protested that the Brandenburg Interior Minister Jörg Schönbohm had also commemorated the victims of the Soviet special camp Sachsenhausen (1945–1950) at a commemoration ceremony for the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mainly lower functionaries of the Nazi regime, but also politically unpopular people and arbitrarily arrested persons as well as those convicted by Soviet military tribunals were imprisoned in the Soviet special camp. Rentmeister criticized that Schönbohm wanted to equate the National Socialist camps with those of the Soviet Union, although Schoenbohm had not explicitly made such a comparison.

Immediately afterwards, journalists discussed Rentmeister's full-time work for the Ministry for State Security (MfS). This was known to the Sachsenhausen Committee since 1999. This was unknown to a broader public and also to the director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Günter Morsch , for whom Rentmeister was the main contact in the Sachsenhausen Committee for the events on the anniversaries of the liberation of the concentration camps. On May 6, 2006, the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation ended its collaboration with Rentmeister because of his earlier involvement with the MfS. Shortly afterwards Rentmeister announced that he would leave his office as Secretary General of the International Sachsenhausen Committee for the time being, but the President of the International Sachsenhausen Committee, Pierre Gouffault , took this as a resignation and accepted it. On May 23, 2006, the Presidium of the International Sachsenhausen Committee in Paris officially confirmed Rentmeister's resignation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See in the archives of the respective concentration camps
  2. ↑ a b c A Stasi man represented the Nazi victims . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 8, 2006
  3. ^ A b Walter Suess : State Security at the End . Ie. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-181-X , Chapters 11 and 12
  4. ^ Information bulletin No. 32 of the International Sachsenhausen Committee of May 15, 2001.
  5. ↑ a b Schönbohm snubs concentration camp survivors . Spiegel Online , April 23, 2006; Retrieved May 30, 2008
  6. ↑ literal quote from Soviet special camp 1945–1950 . ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
  7. ↑ Also reminded of victims of the Soviet special camp. Ministry of the Interior of Brandenburg, April 23, 2006, accessed on May 30, 2008 (press release no. 068/2006).
  8. ↑ Sachsenhausen Committee knew the Stasi vita of its Secretary General . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 10, 2006
  9. ^ Sachsenhausen: Now no resignation , In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 10, 2006; accessed May 2, 2020
  10. ^ Sachsenhausen: Committee throws out Stasi man . , Tagesspiegel, message from May 24, 2006, accessed on May 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Rentmeister, Hans junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rentmeister, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General Secretary of the International Sachsenhausen Committee
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg