Otto Praun

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Otto Praun (born April 28, 1894 in Würzburg , according to other information in Munich , † between April 14 and 19, 1960 in Pöcking ) was a German gynecologist and real estate dealer .

Life

Otto Praun came from a family whose members had been part of the leadership of the West German secret services since the Second World War . His cousin Albert Praun was a general in the news force during the Nazi era . In 1956 he took over the management of telecommunications intelligence in Pullach with the code name "Schwarz" . His nephew Dietrich Praun became head of the security / counter-espionage department and later became BND resident in Tunisia under the code name “Pranner” .

Praun was 1,928 employees of the defense , he was the medical officer of the Alliance and member of the Nazi party with membership number 1725299. Between 1937 and 1944, Praun protected people from the Nazi dictatorship by issuing them certificates . A married couple was saved from forced labor . The Gestapo was investigating Praun for violating the Ordinance on Extraordinary Broadcasting Measures . In 1944, a local group leader initiated a party regulation procedure because of repeated “not wearing” the party badge. A memorandum of the BND journalists in 2001 found the note, Praun had "the spy of Hitler's Wehrmacht as an officer or undercover agent served and later the BND" and "was involved in weapons deals" have been.

In 1954 a former member of the Abwehr, Sonja Bletschacher, was found dead in Starnberg . She was a friend of Praun and had married a Colonel Bletschacher, who had died in 1944. After the war, Sonja Bletschacher was invited by Praun to his house in Pöcking. Praun had been asked about the Bletschacher case. The criminal police in Fürstenfeldbruck was responsible for homicides in the Starnberg district . In the Bletschacher case, suicide was determined.

In July 1957, Praun hired Vera Brühne as a chauffeuse in Munich , for which he provided her with a used VW Beetle and paid 200 Deutsche Mark per month. In October 1957, Brühne Praun drove for the first time to his Finca Casavana on the Costa Brava , which was looked after by the manager Katja Hintze. In 1958 Praun dismissed Hintze and transferred the management of the property near Lloret de Mar in the Spanish province of Girona to Brühne . On May 23, 1959, Praun drew up a will in Arbúcies in which he granted Brühne a lifelong right to live on the 8.3  hectare country estate.

death

As on 19 April 1960, and not the Tuesday after Easter, Praun in his practice in the Lindwurmstraße appeared in Munich, went around 22:00 his nurse with her roommate after Pöcking . Her companion entered the villa through the patio door and found Praun shot. The police later found the housekeeper Elfriede Kloo, who was shot in the neck, in the basement of the villa. The responsible Kriminalobermeister Rodatus found that the same night an extended suicide Prauns - positive for the reconnaissance statistics.

On April 22nd, 1960 Praun was buried in the Munich North Cemetery. He left behind a fortune that was estimated at 1.6 million German marks, around 3,700,000 euros based on today's value. On August 2, 1960, the will was opened in the Starnberg District Court . In his will, dated 23 May 1959 Praun Brühne admitted lifelong right to use his property in Lloret de Mar one. Praun bequeathed his real estate in Spain to Brühne with the stipulation that when he inherited, a subsequent heir note in favor of his son Günther Praun (* 1930) be entered in the land register. Brühne could have used the site, but a sale would have remained dependent on Günther Praun's approval. With an entry in the land register for Brühne, this could have documented the chronology of real estate in Spain. After the will was opened, the consensus on Praun's cause of death was no longer undivided. Two weeks after the will was opened, Günther Praun's lawyer filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor at the Munich District Court II against unknown persons for murder in two cases. He also applied for the exhumation and sectioning of Otto Praun's body. On October 27, 1960, the responsible investigating judge at the Munich District Court granted the request. The subsequent autopsy revealed that Praun had been killed with two headshots.

In the spring of 1962, Brühne and the co-defendant Johann Ferbach were tried. Günther Praun brought a number of crucial pieces of evidence into the proceedings, which had not been secured by the police and could have been falsified by Praun. The contradicting statements of Brühne's daughter Sylvia Cossy, who originally incriminated her mother and then revoked her statement in court, also played an important role in the process. On June 4, 1962, Brühne and Ferbach were sentenced to life imprisonment for joint double murder . A request for a revision was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice on December 4, 1962 , making the judgment final . Brühne was pardoned in 1979 and released from prison.

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Wunderlich (Vera Brühne, biography), accessed on October 17, 2017
  2. a b Regional Finance Bureau (State Tax Office), Sophie Straße 6, Munich Maintenance Act Bletschacher, Docket MNM 17836 by power noise (PDF, 6.9 MB) from Gaby Weber in the past that did not end - intoxication with power, business and constitutional treason in the legal scandal Brühne-Ferbach , Ed. Ulrich Sonnemann , Focus Verlag, Gießen, 1985, 206 SS 40
  3. Merit in the semi-darkness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1968 ( online ).
  4. The death did not come at 19.45 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1973 ( online ).
  5. Everything was clear to the police . In: Die Zeit , 48/1961
  6. The many pillars of the judge Seibert . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1970 ( online ).
  7. The true liar . In: Die Zeit , No. 22, 2001.
  8. Rigidity released. In: Der Spiegel , No. 13, 1972.

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