Peter Schult

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Peter Schult (born June 17, 1928 in Berlin ; † April 25, 1984 in Munich ) was an anarchist , German writer and journalist and from the 1970s an exposed participant and often controversial protagonist in public debates about sexual morality and sexual politics , especially homosexuality and pedophilia .

Life

Peter Schult was born on June 17, 1928 in Berlin . Towards the end of the Second World War he was used as a young air force helper. At that time he was also in the Hitler Youth . As a member of a youth gang, he was sentenced to short prison terms for trafficking in the black market in 1947 and 1948 , and in 1949 to 18 months' imprisonment for continued serious theft , which he only had to serve until the end of the year due to an amnesty. From 1950 he was involved in Wuerttemberg-Baden in youth work , was a member of the FDP and the Young Democrats , as its deputy national chairman, he was also vice president of the "Liberal Youth of Europe". He got married and became the head of a men's dormitory in Stuttgart , in which runaway young people were taken in. He was arrested in the summer of 1954 and sentenced to five months in prison for "serious fornication with anyone under the age of 21". He then resigned from all offices.

From 1955 to July 1961 he served in the French Foreign Legion . Towards the end of the Algerian War he deserted from the Foreign Legion because he was convinced of the illegality and inhumanity of the war. He wrote an article about this war for Der Spiegel . During this time he began to question the prevailing forms of society more and more.

From 1961 he lived in Munich - Schwabing , worked as an unskilled worker at Bruckmann Verlag , as a journalist and as a writer and published a magazine. He served two sentences of five and fourteen months in prison for homosexual relations with teenagers and additional sentences for drug offenses. He took part in the Easter marches , in the campaign against Springer and in the anti-emergency actions.

From 1971 to 1974 he was sentenced to three years in prison for drug trafficking and deprivation of liberty . From the beginning of 1973 he worked in prison for the Red Aid and in May 1973 took part in the RAF's second hunger strike against the exclusion of the defense lawyers and solitary confinement. Fritz Teufel made Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta aware of Schult's detention situation, who then visited him regularly in prison. The SPD member of the Bundestag Hermann Dürr , whom Schult had known since he became a young democrat in the 1950s, also stood up for him.

After his release on February 21, 1974 - Schlöndorff and Trotta picked him up from the Kaisheim JVA - he worked in the collective Rote Hilfe München. He worked for the Munich city newspaper Blatt and the magazine Autonomie . Together with the publisher of Trikont-Verlag , Herbert Röttgen , he campaigned against the ban on the memoirs of the former terrorist Bommi Baumann , organized a solidarity campaign by 380 public figures and obtained the approval of the work.

Participants in public debates on sexuality

Peter Schult was an avowed pederast . In the years following his release from prison in 1974 he came more and more into the focus of the judiciary due to his openly practiced pederasty, which reinforced his increasingly radical rejection of established society, the prevailing sexual morality and bourgeois life in general. In June 1976, he was accused of having stayed at his home for one night to sexually abuse an eight-year-old girl. The allegations also led to disputes within the left-wing scene. Schult denied the act citing his lack of interest in girls and the child's lack of credibility, but was sentenced to 27 months in prison. In May 1979 there was another criminal case for two offenses involving minors, which ended with a suspended sentence.

On February 1, 1982, Schult was sentenced to 34 months' imprisonment for five homosexual offenses with young people and three times in a further process in which he was publicly supported by Volker Schlöndorff , Margarethe von Trotta , Birgitta Wolf and the Association for Sexual Equal Rights convicted of child sexual abuse. In view of the previous convictions, the court justified the low level of punishment by stating that Schult could not tell the age of the under 14-year-old children and that “there was obviously no harm in the development of the children”.

From autumn 1982, Schult complained about health problems while in custody; a shadow on his lungs was diagnosed as harmless by the prison doctors and further treatment was rejected. Lung cancer was diagnosed in the fall of 1983 . Now celebrities and well-known activists such as Klaus Croissant , Hans-Christian Ströbele , Helmut Gollwitzer , Dorothee Sölle , Peggy Parnass and Peter Paul Zahl, as well as the parliamentary group of the Greens and the FDP parliamentarian Fritz Flath are campaigning for Schult's early release. The judicial authorities refused; However, Schult was transferred from the Kaisheim correctional facility to the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic in Berlin . From there he fled in March 1984, first with a forged passport to East Berlin and then to southern France. A few weeks later he returned to Munich, where the authorities waived another arrest and a pardon was granted. On April 25, 1984, he died in the Neuperlach hospital from internal bleeding caused by a stomach ulcer . His estate is in the Forum Homosexuality Munich .

Works (selection)

  • Visits to Dead-End Alleys - Records of a Gay Anarchist. Autobiography. Trikont Verlag, 1978.
  • Fallen angels - short stories, essays, pamphlets. Gmünder Verlag, 1982.
  • Autumn in Haidhausen. Fragment of a novel from the estate. Kiel 1985

as well as articles, essays and statements in various publications:

  • Poor Boy Blues in: Lesebuch, Ed. Joachim S. Hohmann, Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt 1979.
  • Pedophilia Today - Reports, Opinions, and Interviews on Child Sexual Liberation, 1980

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mildenberger, p. 87
  2. ↑ a b Willi Winkler : The victim Grischa. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 16, 2013, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Mildenberger, p. 109, presumably writes “Heinz” Dürr in a confusion of first names
  4. ↑ Mildenberger, p. 125
  5. ↑ Mildenberger, p. 126
  6. ↑ Quoted from Mildenberger, p. 149
  7. ↑ Mildenberger, p. 152 ff.
  8. ↑ http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/entry/eins_gegen_alle/27325/_peter_schult_geflohen.html
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel 12/1984: Fateful course
personal data
SURNAME Schult, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1984
Place of death Munich