Rainer M. Schubert

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Rainer M. Schubert (* 1946 in Flensburg ) is a German journalist and former escape helper during the times of German division .

Life

Schubert lived in West Berlin . From 1972 he helped citizens of the GDR and the ČSSR to flee to the West as an escape helper . He worked as an employee and Germany boss of the escape aid group of Hans Ulrich Lenzlinger disguised as Aramco AG . In the process, the number of people expelled was given as 97.

On January 8, 1975, he was arrested in East Berlin . According to his own statements, he was "dragged there" by the MfS . A friend from East Berlin had arranged to meet Schubert at the Interhotel Stadt Berlin on Alexanderplatz and informed the MfS. This acquaintance was charged with kidnapping in 1992 .

Schubert was to be tried in a military court first. But since they wanted to hold a show trial and that was not possible before the East Berlin Military Court, the GDR Public Prosecutor took over the indictment before the criminal senate Ia of the Berlin City Court for "subversive human trafficking , sabotage , espionage , terror and other serious crimes" and called for a life sentence. The main hearing took place from January 20 to 26, 1976. On January 26, Schubert was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The process was accompanied by media in both East and West.

He served his imprisonment for two years in solitary confinement in the Central MfS remand prison in Berlin, today the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial . Then Schubert was transferred to the Bautzen II special prison of the State Security. On October 14, 1983, after almost nine years in prison, he was released to West Berlin.

literature

  • Matthias Bath : The escape helpers Rainer Schubert and Hartmut Richter . In: Ways to Bautzen II: biographical and autobiographical portraits . Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, Dresden 1998, ISBN 978-3-9805527-7-6 , pp. 113–128.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Nawrocki: The professionals in human trafficking . In: Die Zeit, January 30, 1976.
  2. ↑ Peter Kirschey: In the Hotel am Alex, the trap snapped shut . In: Neues Deutschland, December 12, 1992.
  3. ↑ TV reports about the escape helper Rainer Schubert on YouTube
  4. ^ Ways to Bautzen II: biographical and autobiographical portraits . Dresden 2003, p. 116.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Rainer M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German escape agent
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg