Karl Wienand

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Wienand (middle) with Udo Jürgens and Rut Brandt
Wienand (left) together with Helmut Schmidt (1974)

Karl Wienand (* 15. December 1926 in Lindenpütz ; † 10. October 2011 in Trier ) was a German politician of the SPD and agent of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) of the GDR .

Life

As a communist, Wienand's father was an opponent of the Nazi regime imprisoned on several occasions . He often appeared against the National Socialist Robert Ley and died at the beginning of the Second World War.

After attending primary school , Wienand was sent to the teacher training institutes in Bad Godesberg and Xanten in 1941 because of his talent . Wienand did military service in World War II and was seriously wounded (loss of a leg, shot in the head and a spade in the arm). One of his legs had to be amputated and he was considered to be "70 percent war-damaged ".

The two-time widower was the father and stepfather of five children. In 1975 he became managing director of the Bonn Society for Cosmetic Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics mbH Klinik International .

Political party

Wienand joined the SPD in 1947. In 1950 he was elected to the sub -district executive committee of the SPD in the Rhein-Sieg district . As early as 1951 he came to the executive board of the SPD district Mittelrhein and in 1955 became a member of the SPD party council. In 1990 he retired from politics. In 2002 he left the SPD in order to forestall a party expulsion process.

According to Herbert Wehner , Wienand was considered a “man for delicate cases”. According to the historian Arnulf Baring , he belonged "to the social liberal core area, to the handful of its most important figures".

In 1973, after Rainer Barzel surprisingly lost the vote of no confidence in Willy Brandt, Der Spiegel criticized Wienand's role in the SPD:

“The scandal, the huge scandal, if you want, is somewhere else. It is scandalous that almost the entire SPD parliamentary group expresses its trust and thanks to its most important and influential managing director , even though the latter is clearly not in a position to defend himself against the allegations made against him not only by Steiner .

Karl Wienand was not rushed. On the contrary, the press was tired of confronting him with the unresolved contradictions, one can also say lies, of the partner affair for even longer. Even the fact that he appeared in the seven-person negotiating committee of the SPD after the federal elections was accepted with tired amazement ('If you just can't do without him ...').

The collar only burst when Wienand brought a Dakapo of his partner presentation over the ramp in the Steiner affair. Whatever one understands by public, it will not accept that Karl Wienand is the SPD, that Brandt or Wehner or anyone else cannot officiate without him. "

MP

At the age of 26, he became the youngest member of the German Bundestag in the 1953 Bundestag election . From November 15, 1963 to April 13, 1967, Wienand was Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee there . From March 3, 1964 to April 27, 1967 he headed the parliamentary group for security issues of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. From March 7, 1967 to August 30, 1974, Wienand was Parliamentary Secretary . He resigned from the Bundestag on December 3, 1974.

Public offices

Scandals and lawsuits

Wienand was involved in a number of political scandals and was convicted several times.

Paninternational

22 people died in an emergency landing of an aircraft operated by the charter airline Paninternational on September 6, 1971 on the autobahn near Hamburg. Wienand, who had received consultancy fees of 162,500 marks, was accused in 1971 of protecting the airline from an examination by the Federal Aviation Office . An investigative committee of the Bundestag dealt with this issue, but did not come to a conclusive assessment in the party dispute.

Vote of no confidence

When no-confidence vote against Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972 Wienand to the CDU -Bundestagsabgeordneten Julius Steiner 50,000  DM have paid for themselves to abstain ( Steiner Wienand affair ) . This is what Steiner, who has since left the Bundestag, said at a press conference in 1973. It later emerged that Steiner had received 50,000 DM from the MfS; whether he was paid twice could not be clarified.

Tax affair

In 1973 Wienand's immunity as a member of the Bundestag was lifted on suspicion of tax evasion . In 1975 he was fined a total of DM 102,000 for tax evasion - also for the remuneration of Paninternational .

Espionage affair

In 1993, an agent description from the Head Office of the Enlightenment (HVA) brought investigators from the Federal Prosecutor's Office on Wienand's trail as a GDR spy. Since June 1959, the MfS in Wienand had led an IM preliminary “dispute”. In 1971, "Streit" was rewritten as an IMA case and Wienand was referred to as the "contact person" in the statistics sheet. In 1988 it was re-registered as an object source. The Federal Prosecutor's Office accused him of deliberately collaborating with the MfS's HV A from 1970 to 1989. The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court only assessed Wienand's contacts with the GDR as a criminal offense from 1976 onwards, as he had until then had a mandate for official talks, and in 1996 sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for espionage in favor of the GDR and a fine equal to the amount Wienand made had received from the MfS: One million DM. According to the memories of the HVA boss Markus Wolf , Wienand had been in contact with the GDR foreign espionage since the late 1960s. The Federal Court dismissed on 28 November 1997, the appeal brought by Wienand revision , making the Düsseldorf verdict judgment was. Thereupon Federal President Roman Herzog suspended the prison sentence for five years by means of an act of grace because of Wienand's heart disease. Wienand denied the allegations until his death.

Cologne donation affair

In the 1990s, Wienand accepted bribes in the millions for the planning and construction of the Cologne waste incineration plant (MVA) . In addition to aiding in corruption, he was also accused of bribery and tax evasion. In 2002, he served three months in custody before (delivering him because of his poor health condition of bail against restrictions passport and identity card three times weekly reporting to the local police station, beyond) by the Higher Regional Court of Cologne was granted. The conditions were lifted in August 2003 by the Cologne Regional Court. The trial could not be opened for a long time because of Wienand's state of health. On December 14, 2004, the Cologne Regional Court sentenced Karl Wienand to a two-year prison sentence, which was suspended. The court found it proven that the 77-year-old had been guilty of aiding and abetting. Wienand's lawyer had admitted on the first day of the hearing that he had accepted a black money payment of only one million euros in connection with the Cologne MVA and not in the amount of 2.1 million euros, as claimed by the public prosecutor. The Federal Court of Justice overturned the 2005 ruling in the parts in which Wienand had been acquitted by the Cologne Regional Court.

Publications

  • Committed to the party or to conscience? In: The New Society . No. 3 , 1970, p. 366-371 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Wienand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Wienand in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ Karl Wienand: "The man for delicate cases" ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); dpa article at karriere.de from June 13, 2002.
  3. ^ Matthias Korfmann: SPD politician Karl Wienand is dead ; Message on: The West, October 10, 2011
  4. ↑ With this sentence Die Welt quoted Baring in 1996: Helmut Breuer: "He was an ally of the GDR" - Karl Wienand is the first German top politician to be convicted of treason ; in: Die Welt, edition of June 27, 1996.
  5. ^ Rudolf Augstein: (Not yet) Watergate in Bonn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1973 ( online ).
  6. ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 243 ff. ( Bundestag.de ( memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) PDF).
  7. ↑ Judgment of November 28, 1997, Az. 3 StR 114/97 , BGHSt 43, 321.
  8. ^ Espionage: Wienand pardoned . Contribution by Thorsten Denkler in: Die Tageszeitung from April 27, 1999
  9. ^ Wienand, Karl . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Waas bis Wynands] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1364 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 393 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  10. ↑ local appointment . Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 13, 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Wienand, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and GDR spy
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenpütz
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2011
Place of death trier