Michael Buback

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Michael Buback

Michael Buback (born February 16, 1945 in Nobitz ) is a German professor of technical and macromolecular chemistry , a professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the son of the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, who was murdered on April 7, 1977 by the Red Army faction . He became known to a broader public from 2008 through his non-fiction book The Second Death of My Father . In it he disclosed his own investigations and conclusions about the murder of his father and criticized various German security authorities.

The book attracted considerable attention and is considered the occasion for the renewed criminal trial against the former RAF terrorist Verena Becker from 2011. Becker was not permanently investigated in 1977, but Buback believes she and others are the main culprit. He and his wife appeared as joint plaintiffs in the trial . Against the proposals Buback Becker was by the prosecution only because of aid to the murder and sentenced. Buback's generally damning criticism of the course of the trial and the actions of the public prosecutor's office was shared by individual trial observers such as RAF researcher Wolfgang Kraushaar , who stated a “perversion of the rule of law”.

Life

Michael Buback first spent his primary school days in Meißen before his family moved to Celle and then to Karlsruhe . There he graduated from the Kant-Gymnasium in 1963 . He then studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe and was founded in 1972 with the work on vapor pressure, density and electrical conductivity of ammonium chloride at E. Ulrich Franck doctorate . It was founded in 1978 with a work on "Quantitative infrared spectroscopy" habilitation and followed 1981 a call to the Chair of Applied Physical Chemistry at the Georg-August University of Goettingen .

From 1989 to 1991 he was dean of the chemistry department at the University of Göttingen. In 1993 he received a call to the chair of "Technical Chemistry B (reaction technology)" in the chemical engineering department of the University of Dortmund , but did not accept it, just like in 1995 a call to the position of director of the Institute for Technical Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Research Center . In 1995 he finally took over the C4 professorship for “Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry” at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Memberships and functions

Until 2008, Buback was on the Göttingen side as coordinator of the European Graduate School he co-founded in 1999, “Microstructural Control in Free-Radical Polymerization” together with the universities of Amsterdam , Eindhoven and Clausthal . Since 2000 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , expert reviewer of the German Research Foundation and since 2003 "Titular Member" of the Macromolecular Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). In January 2008, Buback took over the position of Vice President of the IUPAC Polymer Division.

Awards

In 1989 he was honored with the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize of the Society of German Chemists . In 2007 Buback was awarded the Bunsen Medal 2007 from the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and the HF Mark Medal from the Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology in Vienna. He was also honored in 2007 with the Erskine Fellowship, which enabled him to hold a visiting professorship at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch , New Zealand .

politics

The independent chemist was at times under discussion as a possible science minister in Lower Saxony . Before the state elections on February 2, 2003 , the then Prime Minister Christian Wulff had presented him as a member of his “future team”. After the election he had to give way to the CDU politician Lutz Stratmann .

In November 2009 he was one of the prominent participants in the conference “Terrorism - the struggle for freedom, fanaticism or state-directed violence?” Of the Normannia-Nibelungen fraternity in Bielefeld , together with Rainer Glagow , Klaus Rainer Röhl , Odfried Hepp , Elias Davidsson and Adrian O. Tovar Simoncic .

For the January 2012 issue of “Compact” magazine, he gave an interview to Jürgen Elsässer , editor-in-chief .

family

When his father, Federal Attorney General Siegfried Buback, was killed by the RAF on April 7, 1977 in Karlsruhe, Michael Buback was 32 years old. In the context of the discussion about the early pardon of Christian Klars in 2007, Buback was a frequent guest in television discussions and wrote several articles on the subject of the RAF . On April 17, 2007 he published an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in which he wrote that the former RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock had contacted him. He had credibly assured him that neither Christian Klar nor Knut Folkerts or Günter Sonnenberg were the shooters. As early as 2001, after Buback and Jürgen Trittins met on a train ride to the talk show Sabine Christiansen, the author of the text "Buback - An Obituary", previously known only as Göttingen Mescalero , was identified.

Michael Buback has been married to a high school councilor since 1971 and has two children.

Book "The Second Death of My Father"

Contents of the book

He published the results of his investigation into the murder of his father in 2008 in the book The Second Death of My Father , an expanded edition appeared in 2009. In it, Buback writes, among other things, about his well-founded suspicion that German secret services were involved in the murder of his father, or at least before that could have been informed about it - and that the federal prosecutor's office in connection with secret services could have covered the real murderer, with many points to Verena Becker. In the meantime, parts of Buback's book have been referred to as conspiracy theory. The political scientist and RAF researcher Wolfgang Kraushaar then carried out his own research and, in the book based on it, Verena Becker and the protection of the constitution : “The suspicion [by Michael Buback] is and remains a well-founded assumption. No more, but also no less. ”Kraushaar also observed the new trial against Becker and commented that, in his opinion and that of other observers,“ the state is defending the accused ”. It is a " perversion of the rule of law when the representative of the prosecution secretly represents the interests of the accused, in this case an ex-terrorist". In June 2011 he titled a newspaper article about the trial “A farce in Stammheim ”. Michael Buback appeared in the trial as a joint plaintiff , and ex-terrorist Michael “Bommi” Baumann acted as witness .

Reception of the book

Several critics wrote that they were initially skeptical about the book's unbelievable sounding theses. However, according to the unanimous opinion of several critics, when reading the “detailed analysis”, this turned out to be the opposite. Some reviewers were downright shocked by the “explosive power” and scope of the facts compiled by Buback and the conclusions drawn from them. The historian and FAZ column head Nils Minkmar wrote :

“But nobody […] is prepared for the explosive power of this book. It is more shocking than a thriller because it is the crystal clear description of a state scandal that has been going on to this day, backed by solid sources. This work has nothing to do with a somehow over-emotionalized conspiracy theory of a grieving son. […] It is a further, important indication of the still insufficiently explored connections between left-wing terrorism and secret services, which have been causing heated discussions in Italy for years. Isn't it time in this country to come to terms with the recent history of services? Michael Buback's accusation must not stand still. It is unbearable to assume that people living in freedom today could have knowledge that could fundamentally shake the German public. "

Processes

Additional lawsuit in the trial against Verena Becker

The book is one of the reasons for the new trial against ex-terrorist Verena Becker . On July 6, 2012, Becker was finally found guilty of aiding and abetting the attack on Buback and two companions of the Federal Prosecutor General and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. However, two and a half years were already considered to have been carried out on the basis of a previous life sentence. The appeal at the Federal Court of Justice was unsuccessful, so the judgment became final. Since the four months of pre-trial detention were also taken into account, a remaining sentence of one year and two months remained. On February 12, 2014 the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart suspended this remaining sentence on probation.

Investigation enforcement proceedings against Siegfried Haag

Furthermore, in 2015 he and the murdered man's brother applied for an investigation against the former RAF member Siegfried Haag and another person, whose name was changed against Siegfried Haag on a read copy of the handwritten original, but failed because of the high formal admissibility hurdles of this type of procedure.

Fonts

  • The second death of my father. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich. First edition 2008; second adult Edition Knaur Verlag Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-78234-7 with a new chapter on further findings.
  • Who shot Siegfried Buback? Interim balance of the research by Michael Buback. Public Lounge Entertainment, Leonberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812822-1-4 (audio book)
  • "The general has to go!" Siegfried Buback, the RAF and the state . Osburg Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95510-211-1

Broadcast reports

Web links

Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terrorism - the struggle for freedom, fanaticism or state-directed violence? ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Fraternity listens to ideas about terror. In: endstation-rechts.de. redok, December 17, 2009, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Table of contents of the Compact Edition 1/2012
  4. ↑ Thomas Moser: Indictment and counter-opinion. Book review on: Michael Buback: The second death of my father. Deutschlandfunk, November 24, 2008
  5. ↑ Clemens and Katja Riha: The trial against Verena-Becker has begun. 3sat Kulturzeit, October 7, 2010
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Janisch: RAF - Conspiracy Theory , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 22, 2010
  7. ↑ Pieke Biermann: An uncomfortable suspicion. Review of: Wolfgang Kraushaar: Verena Becker and the protection of the constitution. Deutschlandradio Kultur, October 18, 2010.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar: Eine Farce in Stammheim , in: Die Tageszeitung from June 8, 2011, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Various reviews of the book, quoted at buecher.de
  10. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Who will spare Siegfried Buback's murderers? FAZ, December 8, 2008, quoted by buecher.de
  11. ↑ The unwilling criminalist. taz, September 29, 2010
  12. ↑ Detention for ex-terrorist Becker for aiding and abetting ( memento from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: tagesschau.de , July 6, 2012 (accessed on July 6, 2012).
  13. ↑ 6. Criminal Senate will decide on parole with regard to Verena Becker's remaining sentence. Press release of the OLG Stuttgart of February 3, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2014
  14. ↑ 6. The criminal senate has suspended the remaining sentence against Verena Becker on probation . Press release of the OLG Stuttgart of February 20, 2014, accessed on March 5, 2014.
  15. ↑ Press release on the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart, decision of July 6, 2015, Az. 6 Ws 2/15
personal data
SURNAME Buback, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor, son of Siegfried Buback
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Nobitz