Kurt Rebmann

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Kurt Rebmann (born May 30, 1924 in Heilbronn ; † April 21, 2005 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer . From July 1, 1977 to May 31, 1990 he was Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

Rebmann was the son of the administrative officer Eugen Rebmann (1882–1967) and his wife Frida geb. Wallraff (1887-1970). Until 1942 he attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Heilbronn . On September 1, 1942, he was accepted into the NSDAP. After participating in the war and seriously injured in 1943, Rebmann studied law in Tübingen and completed his legal training in 1950.

From 1950 to 1956 he was in the judicial service of the states of Württemberg-Baden and Baden-Württemberg , including as a district judge at the Heilbronn district court and as a judge at the Baden-Württemberg regional social court in Stuttgart. In 1956 he switched to administration and went to the state representation of Baden-Württemberg in Bonn . In 1959 he returned to Stuttgart to the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice . In 1962 he was the first administrative director of the Second German Television , but then returned to the Stuttgart Ministry of Justice, where from 1965 to 1977 he was the ministerial director and, under changing ministers, its permanent representative. Rebmann was also responsible for the Stuttgart-Stammheim correctional facility , where RAF members were later imprisoned.

After Siegfried Buback's murder by the RAF, Rebmann was appointed Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice on July 1, 1977 at the suggestion of Federal Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) . The assassination attempt on Buback is considered the beginning of the German autumn . Shortly after Rebmann took office, the Dresdner Bank boss Jürgen Ponto was murdered in his house in Oberursel in an attempted kidnapping and the employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer after a kidnapping of RAF members. On August 26, 1977, Rebmann himself escaped an attack on the building of the Federal Prosecutor's Office: the perpetrators had not wound the alarm clock, which was intended to ignite a rocket launcher built by Peter-Jürgen Boock . Boock later testified that he had not raised the alarm clock because he had doubts about the target of the attack.

Rebmann described himself as a “ hardliner ” who spoke out in favor of tightening criminal law and harshness in dealing with terrorists . In the 1980s he called for tougher action against demonstrators - for example in Wackersdorf or at the West runway . During the Schleyer kidnapping, Rebmann called for the reintroduction of the death penalty and the shooting of terrorists who are to be freed through "hostage-taking by blackmail."

As Federal Attorney General, Rebmann campaigned for the Federal President to have Verena Becker pardoned. The journalist Ulf G. Stuberger attributes this to the fact that Becker was an informant for the protection of the constitution and Rebmann was a particularly close confidante of German secret services.

Rebmann's successor as Attorney General was Alexander von Stahl .

Rebmann was also the long-time chairman of the Württemberg Criminal Aid Association. In addition to his professional career Rebmann remained the law always connected: In one of Gustav Heinemann used Commission he worked on the reform of the marriage law , in particular the divorce law , with and commented in Munich Commentary on the Civil Code a number of family law regulations. Rebmann also taught at the law faculty of the University of Konstanz in the early 1980s.

In Tübingen Rebmann had been a member of the Normannia Association since 1945 , in which Helmut Ensslin , Gudrun Ensslin's father , was also active.

Awards

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 173-175.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Eugen Rebmann in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, call number ZS-10607
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kraushaar : Verena Becker and the protection of the constitution. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010.
  3. ↑ The Germans have become insane. Der Spiegel 36/1987, August 31, 1987.
  4. ↑ a b Ulf G. Stuberger : The rule of law a favor. In: the Friday of September 29, 2010 pp. 12-13.

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personal data
SURNAME Rebmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Attorney General
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2005
Place of death Stuttgart