Karl Friedrich Gray

Karl Friedrich Grau (* 1922 ; † September 5, 1984 in Luxembourg ) was a right-wing conservative German journalist and wine merchant. He was a member of both the CDU and the CSU at the same time .

Life

Karl Friedrich Grau entered the political stage of the Federal Republic in the late 1950s. Biographical data on his youth and career cannot be found, with one exception. He is said to have been a patrol leader with the Hitler Youth .

According to Der Spiegel , Grau ran “ a secret empire of dubious associations with which he raised millions in donations for the Union, often somewhat outside the legal framework. "

In 1958, together with the CDU member of the Bundestag Karl-Heinz Vogt, he founded the “ Study Society for State Political Public Relations”. V. “based in 8762 Amorbach, where Grau was a CSU member. Grau became managing director, Vogt its president. The study society was based on the radical anti-communist and strictly conservative positions of William S. Schlamm .

In June 1961, Grau was a co-founder of a “ Swiss-German Society for East Research e. V. “ Peter Sager became President, Karl-Heinz Vogt Vice President and Grau General Secretary. In March 1962, Grau registered with a second residence in Goldswil / Interlaken Switzerland.

On April 9, 1962, Grau was a co-founder of the State and Economic Political Society (SWG).

In 1964, Gray, together with the CDU Bundestag member Hermann Goetz and Walter Picard Member of the "German priory of the Knights Templar Order of e. V. ”based in Wiesbaden (registered December 17, 1968 at the Wiesbaden District Court). In 1966 he was a co-founder and board member of the “ Germany Foundation ”, later he became Secretary General of the Paneuropean Union .

In 1967 Grau and Kurt Ziesel got away lightly with a fine instead of imprisonment for “ offending against the negligent declaration of an oath in lieu of an oath ” at the Biberach district court.

In 1971, the “ Study Society for State Political Public Relations ” bought the internal information from Strauss supporter Hermann Rössler , which had been published since 1956. Grau was editor from 1971 and responsible editor until 1972.

In December 1973, Grau met with leading NPD officials in Frankfurt to make arrangements for the upcoming election campaign in Hesse. When this became known, Grau was excluded from the CDU in 1974 and distanced himself from him. As a result, he had to give up his post as General Secretary of the Paneuropean Union in 1975. After almost two and a half years, he was accepted back into the CDU in 1976.

In the 1980s, Grau maintained close contacts with the military leadership of the South African apartheid regime . That is why the Swiss Federal Council threatened to expel him .

During the Bundestag election campaign in 1980, Grau distributed thousands of fake stickers and leaflets across the country with the words “ Better the Russians in Heilbronn than Strauss in Bonn ”, drawn “ Young Socialists in the SPD ”. The criminal police found in the Frankfurt office of the “ Study Society for State Political Public Relations e. V. “the printing blocks and other stacks of propaganda posters. In January 1983, Grau was sentenced to a fine of 1,250 marks for forgery and insult.

On June 28, 1984, Grau was arrested by the police in Luxembourg after trying to withdraw millions from various banks. He carried a list of accounts and a pistol without a gun license. The Luxembourg public prosecutor suspected him of having fraudulently obtained these accounts. Grau remained in custody until the end of August 1984 - until he was admitted to hospital with heart problems. Despite being guarded, he attempted to escape from the second floor. This attempt ended in a fall, as a result of which Grau died on September 5, 1984.

The events in Luxembourg had an impact on the later CDU party donation affair in Hesse, because Grau issued donation receipts from his non-profit associations from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Then he passed on the donations, minus a commission of ten percent, to the CDU, which in turn made bogus invoices for seminars such as the “ Studiengesellschaft für Staatspolitische Publicsarbeit e. V. ”. After his death, Grau left six other such fundraising centers.

His book on Soviet war crimes in Silesia has been translated into other languages.

Fonts

• Speaking of bouquet. A documentation. With a foreword by Konrad Adenauer . Published by the Study Society for Public Policy Public Relations in Frankfurt am Main. Publisher Karl Friedrich Grau. Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1965, 197 pages
• Silesian Inferno. War crimes of the Red Army during the break-in in Silesia in 1945. A documentation . Introduced by Ernst Deuerlein. Published by the information u. Documentation Center West. Seewald, Stuttgart 1966, 204 pp.
• Dismantling democracy . Special edition of the study society for state political public relations. Frankfurt am Main 1968, 240 pp.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Junge, Julia Naumann, Holger Stark: legal writer . Elefanten Press, 1997, p. 162
2. ↑ ^{a b} Other income . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2000, pp. 38 ( online ).
3. ↑ Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2005, p. 200
4. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (ed.), Bruno Jahn (collaborator): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 902.
5. ↑ Jürg Frischknecht, Peter Haffner: The Unheimlichen Patrioten: political reaction in Switzerland . Limmat, 1979, p. 430
6. ↑ Jürg Frischknecht, Peter Haffner: The Unheimlichen Patrioten: political reaction in Switzerland . Limmat, 1979, p. 431
7. ↑ Completely undetectable . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1973, p. 64 ( online ).
8. ↑ I must be completely impossible to find . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1972, p. 49 ( online ).
9. ↑ Strange and strange . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1967, p. 51 f . ( online ).
10. ↑ Jürg Frischknecht, Peter Haffner: The Unheimlichen Patrioten: political reaction in Switzerland . Limmat, 1979, p. 437
11. ^ "Via Switzerland to atomic bombs and other weapons. Switzerland served the apartheid regime as a hub for rearmament. ” In: Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), October 28, 2005
12. ↑ Crash after milking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1984, pp. 93 ( online ).
13. ↑ Crash after milking . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1984, pp. 92 ( online ).