Herbert Kroeger

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Herbert Kröger on the far right, Stockholm 1976

Herbert Kröger (born July 17, 1913 in Dortmund , † September 19, 1989 in Stahnsdorf ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

After secondary school education, he studied from 1931 law and political science at the Universities of Berlin and Jena and received his doctorate in 1936 for Dr. jur. From 1933 he was a member of the SA , from 1937 of the NSDAP (membership number 5,384,346) and in 1938 of the SS (membership number 310.206). After passing the first and second state examinations in law , he was appointed regional judge in 1941 .

During World War II he served as a reserve officer and fell at Stalingrad in Soviet captivity . There he joined the NKFD , attended an Antifa school and became assistant and personnel clerk to Wilhelm Zaisser , who later became the GDR Minister for State Security .

After his return to Germany in 1948 he was appointed professor of constitutional law and dean of the law faculty at what was then the German Administrative Academy in Forst Zinna . 1950 to 1963 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. In 1955 he defended the KPD before the Federal Constitutional Court as legal advisor to the Central Committee of the SED .

From 1955 he worked as Rector of the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR) in Potsdam-Babelsberg , from 1964 as Director of the Institute for International Relations of the DASR, from 1970 to 1978 as Head of Department for International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law at this institute . He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine Einheit from 1956 to 1960 , Vice-President of the Society for International Law , President of the League for the United Nations of the GDR and the Committee for Human Rights from 1965 to 1989 . He was also a member of the International Law Association and deputy chairman of the Pugwash group of the GDR. In 1984 he and the international lawyer Walter Poeggel became a member of the Advisory Council for Space Issues , which was formed at the Peace Council of the GDR . He has written numerous publications on questions of constitutional and international law.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

  • Liability for damage to third parties caused by actions by the fire service. Dissertation. Borna / Leipzig 1936.
  • On the state structure of the GDR. Berlin 1954.
  • The accused became the accuser . Closing argument in the ban proceedings against the KPD before the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on July 17, 1955. Bremen 1955.
  • with Joė Nordman: Request to the Council of Europe to lift the KPD ban. Berlin / Paris 1957.
  • with Günter Albrecht: documents on the state order of the GDR. Volume 1, Berlin 1959.
  • The German workers and farmers state. Berlin 1960.
  • German borders and European security. Berlin 1967.
  • "New" Ostpolitik in Bonn? Berlin 1967.
  • as co-author: History of the foreign policy of the GDR. Berlin 1968.
  • as co-author: Textbook of International Law. 2 volumes. Berlin 1973–1981.
  • Peaceful coexistence and international law. Berlin 1975.
  • with Frank Seidel: Friendship treaties-treaties of socialism. Berlin 1979.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 3-631-63542-7 , p. 184.
  2. ^ Information from the GDR Peace Council. No. 10–11 / 84 “Advisory Council for Space Issues at the Peace Council of the GDR”, last page [p. 8th]
personal data
SURNAME Kroger, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1989
Place of death Stahnsdorf