Rainer Griesbaum

Rainer Griesbaum (born March 4, 1948 ) is a German lawyer . He was the permanent representative of the Federal Public Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) .

Life

Griesbaum grew up in Karlsruhe . After military service, studying in Heidelberg and doing legal preparatory service, he joined the judicial service of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1977. After working at the district court and the regional court in Karlsruhe , he worked as a public prosecutor in Karlsruhe from September 1979 .

At the beginning of the 1980s he was seconded to the federal prosecutor's office as a research assistant. There he was in particular involved in the investigation against members of the Red Army faction , namely against Christian Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt . After working in the Ministry of Justice, he returned to the Federal Prosecutor's Office in 1990 as a senior public prosecutor at the BGH. In 1997 he became federal prosecutor in the terrorism department and in May 2004 its head. He has been the permanent representative of the Attorney General since 2007.

When Federal Prosecutor General Monika Harms retired in September 2011 and her successor Harald Range had not yet been appointed, Griesbaum was acting as provisional Federal Prosecutor General.

In public, Griesbaum appeared in particular in connection with the renewed trial against Verena Becker from 2008 for the murder of Siegfried Buback and his companions as well as in the investigation against the right-wing terrorist National Socialist underground in November 2011.

Rainer Griesbaum retired on December 31, 2013.

literature

• Annette Ramelsberger: Rainer Griesbaum on terror. Interview . Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 14, 2013, p. V2 10

Web links

• Profile of Rainer Griesbaum at SWR.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No “protective hand” for a former RAF terrorist. Focus Online, June 9, 2011, accessed December 1, 2011 . 
2. ^ The Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice: press release. Retrieved May 11, 2017 .