Karl-Albrecht Tiemann
Karl-Albrecht Tiemann (* 1902 in Cottbus ; † 26. July 1955 in Dresden ) was a German philologist , employees of the secret service and sacrifice of the GDR - Justice . He was convicted and executed in an illegal judgment.
After finishing school, Tiemann studied philology . During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht and maintained connections with the resistance group of the Kreisau Circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke . At the end of the war, Tiemann became a prisoner of war. After his release he returned to his hometown Cottbus in the former Soviet occupation zone and became a lecturer at the local adult education center . In 1948 Tiemann joined the SED , but quickly fell out with the party and was initially banned from teaching at the adult education center, which was later extended to his private lessons.
Since Tiemann no longer saw any prospects for life in the GDR and was increasingly critical of the socialist regime, he moved with his family to West Berlin and lived here in the Zehlendorf district . Here he initially worked for the secret services of the United Kingdom and France , before joining the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 1954 . Here he is said to have been busy building up a network of informants in the GDR. Because of his activities in West Berlin against the GDR, Tiemann was quickly targeted by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR, especially since the GDR considered his move to West Berlin to be illegal.
On August 1, 1954, he was lured into a trap by his wife's cousin, kidnapped by an operational group of the Stasi of the GDR across the border between West Berlin and the GDR to Potsdam and imprisoned. In April 1955, Tiemann was tried before the Cottbus District Court for "connections to Western secret services". In the secret trial , Tiemann was finally sentenced to death . The appeal lodged by his public defender was rejected by the GDR Supreme Court a month later, and the petition for clemency to GDR President Wilhelm Pieck was rejected. On July 26, 1955 Karl-Albrecht Tiemann was in prison Dresden with the guillotine beheaded .
The family only received his farewell letter, which was withheld by the State Security, after German reunification . The Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13. August eV finally applied for Tiemann's rehabilitation . At the beginning of May 2006, the Cottbus regional court declared the GDR death sentence to be contrary to the rule of law and overturned it because it had "served political persecution".
Karl-Albrecht Tiemann was married and had two children.
literature
Roger Engelmann : Karl-Albrecht Tiemann in Karl Wilhelm Fricke (ed.): Opposition and Resistance in the GDR , CH Beck, 2002, pp. 305-310, ISBN 9783406476198
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tiemann, Karl-Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philologist and victim of the GDR justice system |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | cottbus |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1955 |
| Place of death | Dresden |