Klaus Pflieger

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Klaus Pflieger (born May 14, 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and was prosecutor general in Württemberg from 2001 to 2013 . In various functions he was heavily involved in several trials against terrorists of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and later worked and published in the field of extremism and terrorism. In particular, from 1987 he was a public prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of the employer's president Hanns-Martin Schleyer . In July 2015 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Gauck.

Life

Pflieger grew up in Böblingen and studied law at the University of Tübingen . From August 1975 he worked as a prison judge , then as a civil judge and finally as a criminal judge at the Stuttgart District Court. As a department head of the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office, he was part of the investigation team that investigated the night of Stammheim's death on October 18, 1977, and was the prosecutor in the trial against lawyer Klaus Croissant .

From 1980, Pflieger was a research assistant at the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe and, among other things, one of three investigating public prosecutors in the investigation of the right-wing extremist bomb attack on the 1980 Oktoberfest with 13 dead. In 1981 and 1982, respectively, he coordinated the charges against RAF members Peter-Jürgen Boock , Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar and represented the charges in the first Boock trial.

From May 1985 he was head of the “Criminal Procedure Law” section in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice and from June 1987 an official of the Federal Prosecutor's Office . In this function, he was, among other things, the prosecution in the trials of the shooting at police officers at runway 18 West at Frankfurt Airport in 1987 with two deaths, the xenophobic assassination attempt in Mölln in 1992 with three deaths, the arson attack on the Lübeck synagogue in 1994 and in the trials against the RAF terrorists Werner Lotze , Sigrid Sternebeck , Ralf Friedrich and Eva Haule (against them because of the bomb attack on the US airbase in Frankfurt / Main in 1985 with two deaths and the previous murder of the US soldier Edward Pimental ).

From October 1995, Pflieger was Head of the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor's Office and from July 2001 until his retirement at the end of June 2013 he was the Wuerttemberg Public Prosecutor General , i.e. head of the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor's Office . In this function, he was responsible for the rampage in Winnenden , in which 16 people (including the perpetrator) were killed on March 11, 2009, and - until the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU) self-exposure - for the murder the police officer Michèle Kiesewetter 2007. From 2004 he was also a member of a project group cooperation between the police and the judiciary in the field of combating Islamist terrorism , which occurred after the first Islamist attacks in Europe - especially after the bomb attack on suburban trains in Madrid on March 11th 2004 - concerned with the prevention of such terrorist acts.

Since January 1, 2014, Pflieger has been the state attorney for the State Medical Association of Baden-Württemberg. From November 2018 he was a member of the "Child Protection Commission for the processing of the abuse case in Staufen and for the further development of child protection" set up by the Baden-Württemberg state government, which presented the results of its work and a concept for improvements on February 17, 2020.

Publications and positions

With the approval of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Pflieger has written books about the Schleyer kidnapping and the history of the RAF. In 2009 he published a book on the history (s) of the Württemberg public prosecutor's offices and in 2016 published his memoirs on work in the fight against terrorism.

At the beginning of 2007, he spoke out against a pardon for the former RAF terrorist Christian Klar by the Federal President, but in favor of Klar's release on probation after the judicially stipulated minimum serving time of 26 years, which came at the end of 2008.

After his retirement, Pflieger pleaded for former RAF members who have already served long prison sentences to be given the opportunity to testify in cases of unexplained perpetrators without having to face criminal prosecution. He relied on Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and argued: "The longer it has been since a criminal offense, the more the interest in historical truth gains weight over the interest in criminal prosecution ." In interviews, he explained that, for example, the leniency program was sometimes a “violation of justice” and rewarded treason with lower penalties; but "only those of the RAF who had the benefit of it talked to us". He said that the state "overreacted" in the autumn of 1977 and only later "disenchanted" the RAF by "being pulled down from the pedestal of the enemy" and prosecuted as normal criminals. He is convinced that “not a single wrong judgment was passed” in the trials against the RAF.

Fonts

  • Against Terror - Memories of a Prosecutor. Verrai, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3981804140 .
  • The "Spindy" campaign. The kidnapping of the employer president Dr. Hanns-Martin Schleyer. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 978-378904598-1 . Out of stock, but now included in:
  • The Red Army Faction. RAF - May 14, 1970 to April 20, 1998. 3rd expanded and updated edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5582-3 .
  • Ed .: The history (s) of the Württemberg public prosecutor's offices. IPa, Vaihingen / Enz 2009, ISBN 978-3-933486-71-4 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Klaus Pflieger: Against the Terror - Memories of a Public Prosecutor. Verrai, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN = 978-3-9818041-4-0.
  2. ↑ Child Protection Commission presents final report. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Pflieger: The "Spindy Action" - The kidnapping of the employer president Dr. Hanns-Martin Schleyer. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN = 3-7890-4598-5.
  4. ^ Klaus Pflieger: The Red Army Fraction. RAF - May 14, 1970 to April 20, 1998. 3. Edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN = 978-3-8329-5582-3.
  5. ↑ Klaus Pflieger (Ed.): The history (s) of the Württemberg public prosecutor's offices. IPa, Vaihingen / Enz 2009, ISBN = 978-3-933486-71-4.
  6. ↑ Klaus Pflieger: Against the Terror - Memories of a Public Prosecutor . Verrai-Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818041-4-0 .
  7. ^ Klaus Pflieger: Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar released from prison? In: Die Kriminalpolizei 2/2007 . S. 72 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Pflieger: Mercy Before Right? In: Journal for Legal Policy 3/2008 . S. 84 .
  9. ↑ Klaus Pflieger: Pardon under §154 for convicted murderers? Law and Politics , 1/2014, pp. 1–3.
  10. ↑ The state overreacted. In: Der Spiegel No. 4, 2014, pp. 36–38.
personal data
SURNAME Pflieger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, attorney general in Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart