Oliver Rast

Oliver Rast (* 1973 in West Berlin ) is an activist. He was a member of the left-wing underground organization and criminal association militante gruppe and is currently active in the so-called prisoners' union / nationwide organization (GG) that he helped initiate .

According to his own statements, Oliver Rast comes from a social-democratic environment , his father was a driver for the Berlin waterworks and his mother was an accounting clerk. First he organized himself with the Jusos and the regional division of the Greens in Berlin , before he became active in social movements . "Within the family, two core lines were simply clear: Nazis sucks, war sucks, that was such a starting point for my parents to vote in a social democratic way," he said in 2015 on DRadio . Before his imprisonment, Rast worked in the "Rote Antiquariat" in Berlin .

Rast was sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment by the Berlin Higher Regional Court on October 16, 2009, in particular for attempted arson and membership in a criminal organization. The appeal was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice on May 3, 2011.

Rast served his sentence in Tegel JVA and worked there in the bookbindery . Rast began organizing in prison a few months after his arrest. In May 2014 he founded the prisoners' union / nationwide organization (GG). A German prisoners' union was founded in 1968, but it no longer existed. The GG advocates minimum wages and pension insurance for those working in the prison. The legal form was unclear when the union was founded, as was the status and rights of its members. Immediately after it was founded, documents and support forms were confiscated from Tegel JVA .

Rast was released from custody on September 10, 2014.

In November 2017, the journalist Frank Brunner published a book in the publishing house Bastei Lübbe, in which he reconstructed the hunt of the investigative authorities on the "militant group". At the same time, the author tells the career of Oliver Rast from juso to left radical. At the end of the book it becomes clear that Rast has not distanced himself from left-wing radicalism to this day.

Rast works as a freelance journalist and as a trained bookseller in the "Rote Antiquariat".

Web links

• Björn Stephan: Terrorist becomes workers' fighter . Die Zeit, No. 4/2017, January 19, 2017
• http://oliver-rast.de

literature

• Frank Brunner: With all severity. How police and state security hunt left-wing radicals , Lübbe 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DRadio Kultur contribution by Annette Scheld http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/sprecher-der-gefangenengewerkschaft-rente-und-mindestlohn.2165.de.html?dram:article_id=329926
2. ↑ The convicted person's arrest in the mg process, whoever has power has the right I: The convicted person's arrest in the mg process ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 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. , Indymedia , July 13, 2011 
3. ↑ DRadio Kultur contribution by Annette Scheld http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/sprecher-der-gefangenengewerkschaft-rente-und-mindestlohn.2165.de.html?dram:article_id=329926
4. ↑ Peter Nowak and Sven Wegner: When the prison is no longer a union-free zone , Telepolis, May 30, 2014
5. ↑ Press release on Oliver Rast's release from prison today , Rote Hilfe , September 10, 2014
6. ↑ Frank Brunner: With all severity. How police and state security hunt left-wing radicals , Lübbe 2017
7. ↑ Björn Stephan: Oliver Rast: In jail he learned how important the Basic Law is . In: The time . January 19, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).