Marlene Kegler jug

Marlene Katherine Kegler Krug (born April 13, 1953 in Colonia Hohenau, Paraguay , † probably 1977 ) was a 23-year-old student who fell victim to the Argentine military dictatorship . She is one of about 30,000 so-called Desaparecidos (disappeared).

Life

Kegler Krug was born as the daughter of a German family in the town of Colonia Hohenau ( Itapúa Department ) in Paraguay. The family came from Saxony and had emigrated to South America due to crop losses and famine. Her parents Helma Krug Schneider and Eitel Benedicht Kegler Scheller let her grow up bilingual, with Spanish and German . In the German Protestant community in the Departamento Alto Paraná (Evangelical Church on La Plata), she was involved in the youth group and as a children's church service helper.

In 1972 she began to study medicine at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina . Kegler Krug partially financed her studies herself and worked on the side in literacy campaigns in slums. During her student days, the state-ordered closure of the university cafeteria and the murder of two academic staff at the university by the right-wing extremist death squad Triple A on October 8, 1975. The funeral of the two murdered, which Kegler Krug attended, turned into a protest against those of the Triple A and state violence and brutally suppressed by Buenos Aires Province police . Kegler Krug joined a group of students close to the Frente Antiimperialista por el Socialismo (Anti-Imperialist Front for Socialism). The group, which met in the rooms of a congregation of the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Unida (United Evangelical Lutheran Church), pasted up posters, distributed leaflets and held spontaneous demonstrations , which always broke up before the police appeared.

Under all these circumstances, Kegler Krug continued her studies and in 1976 specialized in obstetrics . In the same year, on 24 March, a coup , the military in Argentina to power and began the mass deportation and torture of political disagreeable people.

Procrastination

On September 16, 1976, the so-called “ Night of Pencils ” took place in the province of Buenos Aires , a police commando operation that made politically active schoolchildren and students disappear .

Marlene Kegler Krug left her apartment in the Berisso district on September 24, 1976 to go to the university. At a bus stop she was forcibly abducted in a car by three armed men, one of the men losing his police ID. Kegler Krug held onto a lamp post and called for help, whereupon several passers-by tried to help her. The kidnappers shot over the heads of the people and dragged Kegler Krug into the trunk of the car. A few minutes after the car had left, a smaller army unit arrived to investigate the scene. The police ID that was found was handed over to the military by a witness. Shortly thereafter, Manuel García Mutto, the dean of the medical faculty, appeared at the scene and testified that Kegler Krug was not a student at his faculty. A few days later, Kegler Krug's apartment was searched by plain clothes. There were various press reports about the kidnapping, but the search of the apartment was not mentioned.

Several testimonies have shown that Marlene Kegler Krug was held in various torture camps in the greater Buenos Aires area . Pablo Díaz, a surviving desaparecido , saw her in the Pozo de Arana camp, where she was brutally tortured:

“She screamed and screamed, you could hear her screams. Then it became quiet and then the one who said, 'It's over, throw it to the dogs.' "

Afterwards she was presumably taken to the Puesto Vasco torture camp in Quilmes , from where her trail is lost. Both camps were under the police of the Buenos Aires Province. Another surviving witness, Walter Docters, testified that Kegler Krug had denounced the dictatorship even under torture. On June 22, 2006, the surviving disappeared Nilda Eloy reported in the trial against police officer Miguel Etchecolatz that she had seen Kegler Krug in an unidentifiable torture camp (according to Eloy it could have been the El Vesubio camp). Eloy, kidnapped at the age of 19, testified that Kegler Krug was literally crucified in the Arana camp and that when the two women met, he still had the corresponding injuries on his palms and feet:

“[She] was crucified in the Arana. She still had the marks on her palms, on her feet. She was recovering from it. "

Legal processing

On October 7, 1976, Kegler Krug's parents asked the Argentine Interior Ministry for information about their daughter's whereabouts, but received no answer. The next day they filed a complaint with the police station in Berisso. In the following years they submitted six habeas corpus requests, all of which were rejected. In January 1977 the Keglers were informed by telephone that their daughter was in a warehouse in the greater Buenos Aires area. They did not learn anything further about their whereabouts.

On September 29, 1983, shortly before the end of the military dictatorship, a group of 41 members submitted a collective habeas corpus request for 48 disappearances of German origin, including Marlene Kegler Krug, to Federal Judge Oscar Mario Salvi. After the end of the dictatorship, the case was also reported to the CONADEP investigative commission , which forwarded it to a federal court in La Plata. However, the investigation was discontinued in the wake of the amnesty laws in favor of the military and security forces who were involved in crimes against dictatorship ( Closing Line Act 1986 and Law on Obligation to Obedience 1987).

On May 22, 2003, the coalition against impunity , which is committed to clearing up the crimes of the dictatorship, brought Kegler Krug's case to the German judiciary. As part of the Ecumenical Kirchentag 2003 , the German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries received representatives of the coalition against impunity on May 28th. During the meeting, Arturo Blatezky from the Ecumenical Human Rights Movement (MEDH) and Rolf Koppe , the Bishop of the EKD abroad , presented the minister with a complaint against the kidnappers of Kegler Krug. The Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office started investigations, but closed them again on August 12, 2003. The reason given was that Kegler Krug was not a German citizen at the time of the crime. She was only given a temporary German passport. Details of her death can no longer be determined. The coalition against impunity filed a complaint.

On October 20, 2004, relatives of German disappearances and the Ecumenical Human Rights Movement appeared in public with a letter calling on the German judiciary to reopen the investigation. Co-signatories were u. a. Bishop Miguel Hesayne and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel .

See also

• Elisabeth Käsemann
• Klaus Zieschank

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Claus Richter: Case description Marlene Kegler Krug. Despite clear information - the public prosecutor's office closes the investigation (PDF; 613 kB). In: Justicia y Verdad No. 12, February 2005. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Arturo Blatezky: And what has changed with us? Experiences of Christians and Churches under the Argentine dictatorship ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Gustav-Adolf-Blatt 2/2004, p. 13. Retrieved on February 6, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b Mitigate} suffering through justice  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  Press release from the Federal Ministry of Justice , May 28, 2003. Accessed February 6, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Marlene Kegler Krug on the website desaparecidos.org . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Case Marlene Kegler Krug  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  Website of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights . Retrieved February 6, 2011.
6. ↑ Declaró una sobreviviente que fue secuestrada por Etchecolatz ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Permanent Human Rights Assembly of La Plata. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
7. ↑ Open letter to the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  Website of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk . Retrieved February 7, 2011.