Herbert Goliasch

Herbert Goliasch (born January 11, 1938 in Beuthen , † April 15, 2004 in Leipzig ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1990 to 1999 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony , from 1990 to 1994 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. When in 1998 his work as a Stasi - IM was detected, he resigned from the CDU.

Life

Goliasch went to school in Halle an der Saale and after graduating from high school did a traineeship at a newspaper. He completed a correspondence course at the technical college for journalism in Leipzig and was then deputy editor-in-chief of the CDU block party , the Thüringer Tageblatt in Weimar, until 1973 . He then worked at the art publisher HC Schmiedicke in Leipzig, where he was the publishing director from 1983.

politics

Goliasch was local group chairman of the CDU in Leipzig-Süd until 1989. He was deputy chairman of the CDU in Leipzig-Stadt and also a member of the state board of the CDU Saxony . In 1990 he was elected to the Saxon Landtag in constituency 10 (Leipzig VI), to which he also belonged in the following period, this time directly in constituency 29 (Leipzig 4) . From 1990 to 1994 he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU in the state parliament, and from 1997 to 1998 he was chairman of the interior committee and a member of the committee for culture and media.

In the summer of 1994, allegations were raised that Herbert Goliasch had worked for the Moscow KGB . Herbert Goliasch is a Mormon and should have passed on information about the Mormon community in the GDR to the Soviets. Herbert Goliasch then decided not to run again as head of the CDU parliamentary group. In the autumn of 1994 the investigation was stopped and Herbert Goliasch was fully rehabilitated regarding this allegation. Subsequently, however, the Gauck authorities' investigations made it clear that Herbert Goliasch had worked as IM "Henri Guhl" for the Ministry of State Security . At the end of June 1998 these allegations became more intense and Herbert Goliasch resigned from the CDU and the CDU parliamentary group in order to be expelled.

On July 15, 1998, the evaluation committee reported to Parliament on Herbert Goliasch's work with the Stasi. After a corresponding vote by the immunity committee, the state parliament decided on May 19, 1999 with a majority vote of the CDU to bring an indictment before the Saxon Constitutional Court with the aim of revoking the state parliament mandate. Herbert Goliasch was represented by the PDS deputy Klaus Bartl before the State Court of Justice . The Constitutional Court dismissed the action on January 13, 2000, referring to the state elections held in September 1999 , in which Goliasch left parliament. There was no longer any need for legal protection, since Goliasch's mandate in the state parliament was already terminated by the end of the second electoral term.

literature

• Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 32. (May 1991)
• Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Sächsischer Landtag: 2nd electoral period, 1994–1999; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1995, ISBN 3-87576-335-1 , p. 27. (as of December 1994)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Welt, July 2, 1998
2. ^ Tip from my father's friend . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1998, pp. 52 ( Online - May 11, 1998 ).
3. ↑ Der SPIEGEL reported… In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1998, pp. 202 ( online - 6 July 1998 ).
4. ↑ Dorit Pries: Stasi staff in German parliaments ?: The review of the members of parliament for a collaboration with the State Security Service of the former GDR, 2008, ISBN 3-8258-0593-X , page 322 ( online in the Google book search).