Josef quarrel
Josef Ernst Streit (born June 9, 1911 in Friedrichswald , Northern Bohemia , † July 3, 1987 in East Berlin ) was the second attorney general of the German Democratic Republic .
Life
Streit was born the son of a glass cutter. After attending the elementary and community school in Friedrichswald, he learned the profession of printer in Gablonz an der Neisse from 1925 to 1929 . He then worked in the profession. In 1925 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia (KJVTsch), in 1930 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch). From 1936 to 1938 he was chairman of the Reichenberg district leadership of the KJVTsch. After he became unemployed in 1930, he wandered around Germany for a short time. From 1930 to 1933 and from 1936 to 1938 he was again working as a printer in Gablonz. From 1933 to 1935 Streit did his military service in the Czechoslovak Army. After the occupation of the Sudeten areas by German troops in 1938, he was arrested. From May 1939 he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp , later in Mauthausen concentration camp . On May 5, 1945, he was liberated there by US troops.
After his liberation, Streit initially worked as an employee in the Friedrichswald municipal office (Bedřichov). He moved to Mecklenburg, where he took part in the development of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1945/46 he was an instructor of the KPD district leadership in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) and first secretary of the FDJ district leadership. In 1946/47 he completed a training course for people's judges in Schwerin and then worked as a local judge in Schönberg from 1947 to 1949 . After completing a course at the German Administrative Academy in 1949, he worked until 1951 as the main speaker, press officer, head of the press office of the Ministry of Justice, and editor of the magazine Neue Justiz . In 1951 Streit was appointed public prosecutor to the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office or to the Public Prosecutor General and held this office until 1953. In 1953/54 he was an instructor in the Justice Sector of the State Administration Department of the SED Central Committee , and from 1954 to 1961 he was Sector Head of the State and Legal Affairs Department of the SED Central Committee.
Josef Streit advocated “criminal justice as a lever for social upheaval”. In 1959 he summarized this goal as follows:
"The jurisprudence and also the supervisory activities of the public prosecutor's office of a socialist state not only serve to protect the social order, but in particular have to act as an important lever for social upheaval."
In January 1962, Streit was elected Public Prosecutor General to succeed the late Ernst Melsheimer , and he held this position until he retired in June 1986. Streit was instrumental in drafting the State Council's decree of the administration of justice of April 1963. In 1965 he was at the Humboldt University of Berlin with the work "Development trends of class justice in the Weimar Republic " to Dr. jur. PhD.
From 1963 to 1987 Streit was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and from 1962 to 1987 the central board of the Association of German Journalists and the Association of Jurists of the GDR (VDJ).
His grave is in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin .
Awards
- Order " Banner of Labor " (1961)
- Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in silver (1961), in gold (1971) as well as an honor bar for the VVO (1981)
- Karl Marx Order (1976 and 1986)
- Dr. jur. hc from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Works
- Forty years of political murder. Berlin 1960.
- Unveiled justice. Berlin 1962.
- The attitude of the two German states to the Nazi and war crimes. Berlin 1965.
- It's just not about punishing. Berlin 1976.
literature
- Sigrid Fritzlar: Quarrel, Josef . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 909-910.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Dispute, Josef Ernst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falco Werkentin: Political criminal justice in the Ulbricht era. Ch. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-069-4 , p. 47.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quarrel, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Streit, Josef Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (KPD, SED), attorney general of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrichswald , Northern Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1987 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |