Jürgen Schreiber (General)

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Jürgen Schreiber (born January 29, 1926 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a lawyer and retired German major general . D. the Bundeswehr . From 1987 to 2001 he was chairman of the Association of German Soldiers . V.

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He was the eldest son of the lawyer and former general judge of the Wehrmacht Kurt Franz Schreiber , who also worked in this function at the Imperial Court Martial in Torgau . Jürgen Schreiber attended elementary school in Berlin-Schöneberg from 1932 to 1936 and then the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium . His parents moved to Braunschweig. From autumn 1938 he attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium there . Schreiber did three months' Reich Labor Service . In October 1943 he received the certificate of maturity for his call-up to the Reich Labor Service .

In 1943 he became an air force helper during World War II . He became an officer candidate in the Air Force in January 1944 . He was taken prisoner for three months and returned to Braunschweig in August 1945. There he completed a transitional course for certificate holders. In April 1946 he received the (supplementary) school leaving certificate. In June 1946, Schreiber began training at Deutsche Bank in Braunschweig. After a little over a year, he broke off the training. He then studied law and economics at the University of Würzburg for four semesters from the winter semester 1947/48 . He interrupted his studies for a semester and moved from Braunschweig to Bad Godesberg . From the summer semester of 1950 he continued to study at the University of Bonn . In July 1951, he passed the first state examination in law at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne . In October 1951 he was appointed trainee lawyer. In Bonn, he was in 1951/52 with a comparative study of conscientious objection at Walter Schätzel and Ulrich Scheuner to Dr. jur. PhD. He passed his doctoral examination in July 1952.

Schreiber initially worked as a public prosecutor before joining the Federal Ministry of Defense at the end of 1955 . In addition to his work there as a government and senior government councilor , he performed military exercises as a reserve officer and was reactivated in 1961 with the rank of captain of the reserve . After various posts in the troops, senior staff and in the Ministry of Defense, he completed general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr . At this he later became department commander as brigadier general and finally deputy academy commander. Most recently, as major general, he was in command of the Air Force Training Command , a major division at division level . He was retired in September 1986.

After his retirement in April 1987, Schreiber succeeded Major General a. D. Johannes Müller as Federal Chairman of the Association of German Soldiers (VdS). He held this position for many years; according APPLICABLE Vereinsregister to 2001. In 1982 he was in an article in the Working Group of Defense Research magazine published Bundeswehr Research Rundschau claims that the Court of Reichskriegsgericht to conscientious objection in the Wehrmacht had proved "by prudence and a reluctance to impose death sentences." During his time as VdS chairman, he vehemently opposed critical military historiography, as it was carried out under the former chief historian of the military history research office of the Bundeswehr , Manfred Messerschmidt . He described his fundamental study on the role of the Wehrmacht justice system in National Socialism in 1987 as one of those works that "in their hateful one-sidedness should not be taken seriously". In 1996, Schreiber, who has now been chairman of the VdS for nine years, declared Messerschmidt a “lecture traveler in matters of defamation of the Wehrmacht”.

From 1989 to 1998, Schreiber wrote several pamphlets in which he described significant perpetrators of Wehrmacht members in the crimes of the Wehrmacht as “the dumbing down of the people of our time”, and against the “spiritual terror of left-wing popes” and the “dictates of political correctness ”. In 2001 he presented his autobiography Vom Jungvolkpimpf zum Bundeswehrgeneral .

Fonts

  • Conscientious objection. A historical and comparative law study . Bonn 1952 (= University of Bonn, law and state science F., dissertation from August 8, 1952)
  • Military Complaints Ordinance (WBO). Explanatory book for soldiers with detailed notes, the relevant provisions of the Soldiers Act and the Administrative Delivery Act as well as many practical examples and sample forms . Bernard & Graefe Publishing House for Defense, Frankfurt am Main 1957
  • Military Penal Act (WStG). Explanatory book for soldiers with detailed notes, texts of further laws, ordinances and decrees as well as many practical examples . Verlag für Wehrwesen Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1961
  • Duties and rights of the soldier in the Bundeswehr . Verlag für Wehrwesen Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 978-3-7637-5101-3
  • Were we perpetrators? Against the dumbing down of the people in our time . Türmer-Verlag, Berg am See 1989, ISBN 3-87829-124-6
  • Not Auschwitz, but Stalingrad and Dresden. What did we do, what did we know? Publishing house soldier in the people. Bonn 1994, ISBN 978-3-9802699-5-7
  • Against the spiritual terror of left-wing popes. Essays and lectures against hypocritical coming to terms with the past and the dictates of “political correctness”.? Publishing house soldier in the people. Bonn 1998, ISBN 978-3-9802699-8-8
  • From young people vaccination to army general. Seven decades of contemporary history . Vowinckel, Stegen am Ammersee 2001, ISBN 978-3-934531-10-9

literature

  • Hans Körber (Ed.): Soldier in the People. A chronicle of the Association of German Soldiers (= publication series Associations of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 16). Wirtschaftsverlag, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-922114-18-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Detlef Garbe : "If the will cannot be broken ...". The trial strategy of the Reich Court Martial in proceedings against Jehovah's Witnesses and other religiously motivated conscientious objectors . In: Claudia Bade, Lars Skowronski, Michael Viebig (eds.): Nazi military justice in the Second World War. Instrument of discipline and repression in a European dimension . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0372-1 , pp. 193–212, here p. 194.
  2. ↑ Hans Körber (Ed.): Soldier in the people. A chronicle of the Association of German Soldiers . Wirtschaftsverlag, Wiesbaden 1989, p. 99f.
  3. ↑ On Schreiber's life data cf. the curriculum vitae in his dissertation conscientious objection. A historical and comparative law study . Bonn 1952.
  4. ↑ Hans Körber (Ed.): Soldier in the people. A chronicle of the Association of German Soldiers . Wirtschaftsverlag, Wiesbaden 1989, p. 100.
  5. ↑ Hans Körber (Ed.): Soldier in the people. A chronicle of the Association of German Soldiers . Wirtschaftsverlag, Wiesbaden 1989, p. 99f. u. Appendix Association chairperson p. 153.
  6. ↑ Register of Associations of the Bonn District Court , VR 2206, Association of German Soldiers (VDS)
  7. ↑ Detlef Garbe: "If the will cannot be broken ...". In: Claudia Bade, Lars Skowronski, Michael Viebig (eds.): Nazi military justice in the Second World War. Instrument of discipline and repression in a European dimension . Göttingen 2015. p. 194. - Garbe quotes here from Schreiber's article Wehrmachtjustiz and conscientious objection , in: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau 31 (1982), p. 145f.
  8. ↑ Fabian Virchow : Against civilism. International relations and the military in the political conceptions of the extreme right . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-15007-9 , p. 418.
  9. ↑ Fabian Virchow: Against civilism. International relations and the military in the political conceptions of the extreme right. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 420.
  10. ↑ See the individual titles in the list of publications below.
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg