Jörg Kürschner

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Jörg Kürschner (born December 11, 1951 in Hanover ) is a former editor of the MDR in Berlin, author of Junge Freiheit and chairman of the friends ' association of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial , which has not worked with the friends' association since 2018.

Life

Kürschner studied law in Bonn and after graduating worked as an assistant to a member of the Bundestag. In 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on parliamentary law under Friedrich Eberhard Schnapp on the status rights of non-attached MPs (published in 1984). At the end of 1979 he was arrested during a private visit to the GDR and imprisoned for six months in the central remand prison of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. In July 1980 he was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for subversive agitation . According to his own account, the allegations related to the fact that he had repeatedly introduced literature to the GDR and passed it on there. At the end of 1981 he was expelled from the GDR as part of a prisoner ransom.

In the following years, Kürschner worked as a journalist, in Berlin since 1999. Among other things, he writes for Junge Freiheit .

Work for the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Since 2002, as a former prisoner, he has been guiding visitors through the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, which was established in 1994. Since November 2003 he has been the chairman of the support association of this memorial and received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2017 .

He became known to a wider public through his statements in the controversy surrounding the name of the Walter Lens Prize announced by the Friends' Association on June 29, 2007, after the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Martin Gutzeit , responded to the NS - Walter Linses pointed out the past and asked Kürschner publicly to suspend the award of the award until Linses had been exposed to the Nazi regime. Kürschner, for his part, accused Gutzeit of "media manslaughter" against Linse and also criticized the expert opinion of the lawyer and historian Klaus Bästlein prepared on behalf of Gutzeit as "selective", in the allegations "often not proven" and sometimes characterized by "allegations and personal evaluations, which do not stand up to an objective evaluation ”. After the scientific advisory board of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial had asked the friends 'association to refrain from using this name due to the existing need for clarification with regard to the Nazi burden of Linse, the friends' association withdrew this name on December 6, 2007 and announced that the Instead, the prize should be called the “Hohenschönhausen Prize for coming to terms with the communist dictatorship”.

In his function as chairman of the Friends 'Association of the Berlin Memorial, Kürschner endorsed the admission of AfD country chief Georg Pazderski to the Friends' Association. In 2018, the memorial separated from Kürschner and its friends' association, justifying this with the lack of party-political neutrality in Kürschner. Thereupon, Kürschner sought an expulsion procedure against Stephan Hilsberg, secretary of the association, because he had sought contact with the public and the press and had informed them about the political issues. The association's board decided to reprimand Hilsberg.

He is a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn and the Corps Guestfalia Greifswald .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Bästlein: On the role of Dr. Walter Linse under the Nazi regime and in the post-war years up to 1949 ( Memento from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 201 kB) : Brief expertise prepared on behalf of the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Berlin, September 2007
  2. ↑ Letizia Haas: Historians argue about Walter Linse , welt.de, September 26, 2007
  3. ^ Advisory board resolution on Walter-Linse-Preis ( memento of September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), November 6, 2007
  4. ^ The association now calls the honor the "Hohenschönhausen Prize" , Tagesspiegel, December 7, 2007
  5. ↑ Berlin-Hohenschönhausen: Stasi victims memorial cuts cooperation with friends' association. In: tagesspiegel.de . June 19, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hannah Beitzer Berlin: When AfD supporters enlighten about dictatorships . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 6, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  7. ↑ When AfD supporters educate about dictatorships . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 6, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 10 , 1072
  9. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 45 , 463
personal data
SURNAME Kürschner, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany