Karl-Heinz Spilker

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Karl-Heinz Spilker (born May 3, 1921 in Bad Oeynhausen , † October 23, 2011 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( CSU ). From 1969 to 1994 he was a member of the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Altötting constituency . In addition to his many years of activity as treasurer of the CSU, he was also a member of the Presidium of the German Atomic Forum until 2000 .

1933 to 1945

In the official Bundestag handbook, it was said of Spilker's vita during the Nazi era: “1939 Abitur. Reich Labor Service, then until 1945 military service (severely disabled). ”However, documents that are now available show that Spilker concealed an SS past and his work in the Reich Chamber of Culture , which belonged to the sphere of influence of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels .

According to Spilker's SS files, he joined the Waffen SS ( Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ) on September 30, 1939 - one month after the start of the Second World War - at the age of 18 (SS number: 400 125). He completed his officer training at the SS Junker School in Braunschweig , after which he was assigned to the Eastern Front. There he became SS-Obersturmführer on April 20, 1943, for the “Führer Birthday”. Shortly thereafter, Spilker, who had been seriously wounded near Stalingrad, was posted to the "Hinkel Office" of the Goebbels Ministry. This office was Department II A of the Reich Chamber of Culture, headed by Ministerial Director Hans Hinkel , responsible for the "de-Judaization of German cultural life". Spilker later denied having even known this department. According to his information, he had dealt with "tasks in the film and broadcasting sector with a focus on music" to " look after the troops, primarily for wounded soldiers" .

Hinkel had personally asked Himmler “to provide men of the Schutzstaffel who could possibly be dispensed with for military service”. These apparently also included the tank officer Spilker, who was unfit for the front and who was sent to the "Hinkel Office" by the SS division "Wiking". On October 15, 1943, he began his service there. As SS-Gruppenführer (general rank), Hinkel was the highest-ranking SS officer in the propaganda authority. His office was also attached to the "Personal Staff of the Reichsführer SS". Their task, for which the Reich Chamber of Culture was jointly responsible from August 1941, was to “monitor the cultural activities of non-Aryans in the Reich”.

According to his SS files, SS-Obersturmführer Spilker was transferred to the "SS-Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" on December 5, 1944.

After 1945

From 1946 Spilker studied law, economics and business administration in Munich and Mainz . In 1953 he passed the second state examination in law. Franz Josef Strauss brought Spilker to Bonn as his personal advisor in the Bundestag. In 1958 Spilker left the public service and became an authorized signatory and later director of Hoechst AG . From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of the board of the Hoechst subsidiary Kalle AG . At the same time, he won a Bundestag mandate for the CSU in 1969. Within the party, he held the office of CSU treasurer from 1971 to 1991. Since 1979 he has also operated a law firm in Munich.

Spilker was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group from 1985 to 1991. On November 9, 1989, at a Bundestag session, when he was about to speak on a completely different topic, he announced the opening of the Berlin Wall by the GDR government to the MPs after he had learned of this from a slip of paper handed to him.

The Wischniewski Trial

Michael Wischniewski, long-time managing director of the GDR company "FC Gerlach", which is said to have belonged to Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski's KoKo empire , transferred several million dollars to accounts in Israel in 1989/90 . Wischniewski, a Polish-born Jew who lost his family in the Holocaust and who himself spent nine years in German labor camps as well as in the Buchenwald , Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps , was sued by the Federal Republic of Germany for the surrender of this money, which was in the accounts of the Leumi bank in Israel lay.

In 1994, Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel (CSU) commissioned the Munich law firm of his party friend Karl-Heinz Spilker to sue for the surrender of the funds stored abroad. The lawsuit was withdrawn before the trial began.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Spilker - the herald of the fall of the Berlin Wall is dead . Alt-Neuöttinger Anzeiger. October 24, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Olaf Wilke: Accused plaintiff . In: FOCUS magazine . No. 28 , 1994, pp. 29 ( online [accessed March 11, 2009]).
personal data
SURNAME Spilker, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2011
Place of death Bonn