Julius Steiner (politician)

Julius Steiner (born September 18, 1924 in Stuttgart , † September 8, 1997 in Friedberg ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He became known as one of the two deputies Union (probably next to Leo Wagner , CSU ) located at the vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt had included 1,972 of the voice.

Life

Julius Steiner took part in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 . After the war he worked for the French secret service until 1952 and studied philosophy , theology and history , but without a degree. Until 1957 he worked for the protection of the constitution in Baden-Württemberg , then for the Federal Intelligence Service . In 1952, Steiner became state director of the CDU and in 1956 state chairman of the Junge Union in Baden-Württemberg. In 1969 he was given a seat in the German Bundestag via the CDU's state list in Baden-Württemberg .

Steiner-Wienand affair

Steiner claimed to the Spiegel in 1973 that he had abstained from the vote of no confidence in Brandt because he wanted to support his policy, and that he had spied on the CDU as IM "Theodor" for the Ministry of State Security as a double agent under the supervision of the BND since 1972 . He later claimed to have received 50,000 DM from the SPD parliamentary group leader Karl Wienand (see Steiner-Wienand affair ). He resigned from the CDU in October 1973.

In 1997, the former head of the GDR secret service, Markus Wolf, announced in his book Spionage Chief in a Secret War that it was he who bribed Steiner with 50,000 DM. Steiner worked “knowingly and willingly” ( taz ) with the Stasi. Documents from the Ministry of State Security evaluated since 1998 seem to confirm this. The research that followed came to the conclusion that one could assume that Steiner was bribed by the Stasi with 50,000 DM on the occasion of the 1972 no-confidence vote. There is also the assumption that Steiner was also bribed by a second agency on this occasion. According to Brigitte Seebacher , historian and widow of Willy Brandt, Brandt "jumped straight out of his chair" "stood with his mouth open in front of the television" after he learned from the television news that Julius Steiner had received 50,000 DM from the state security , sat down again and said: "Then he cashed twice."

Steiner lived in Warthausen -Oberhöfen in the Biberach district until the 1990s and then moved to Friedberg (Bavaria) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parliament should clarify the Steiner affair . In: Die Zeit , No. 24/1973
2. ↑ In- house communication - Re .: Steiner, Zoller . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1973 ( online ).
3. ↑ Steiner, Julius - Lexicon. Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation , accessed on November 15, 2009 . 
4. ↑ They are all so suspicious . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1973 ( online ).
5. ^ "Status of the investigation into the Steiner affair". United States Department of State , July 13, 1973, accessed April 16, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Markus Wolf: Chief of espionage in the secret war. Memories. List, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-471-79158-2 , p. 261.
7. ↑ STASI: CSU spy exposed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 2000 ( online ).
8. ↑ Rolf Kleine, Einar Koch, Julia Topar: Secret "Rosenholz" file published: Stasi denounced Strauss as a mass murderer . In: BILD , August 2, 2006
9. ↑ Andreas Grau: In search of the missing votes 1972. On the aftermath of the failed vote of no confidence in Barzel / Brandt. Historical-Political Messages, Archive for Christian Democratic Politics, Böhlau Verlag Cologne, No. 16, Dec. 30, 2009, p. 15. PDF
10. ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 265ff. ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
11. ↑ Brigitte Seebacher: Willy Brandt. Munich 2006, p. 229.