Rolf Grunert

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Rolf Grunert (born July 1, 1925 in Arnstadt , † July 20, 2006 in Berlin , but grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg criminal investigator and federal chairman of the Association of German Detective Officers . In 1978 he was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for acting as an agent for the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic .

Police career

In 1947 Grunert moved from what was then the Soviet zone and joined the Hamburg police force in 1952 ; As head of personnel at the State Office of Criminal Investigation, he achieved the rank of Chief Detective Commissioner .

Union engagement

In 1969, Grunert became regional chairman of Hamburg and then in 1972 federal chairman of the then strictly conservative criminal officers' union BDK (until 1978).

The situation during his tenure was marked by conflicts with the employer and the competing unions GdP and ÖTV , which did not recognize the BDK as a fully fledged union.

Grunert wanted to put the BDK and himself in the limelight through bold demands and effective media revelations.

So he demanded u. a. to settle the criminal police in Germany similar to the FBI at the federal level and to organize the police forces of the federal states uniformly. These and other demands of the BDK fell on deaf ears, especially since the police are a state matter according to the Basic Law. When opposition members, at Grunert's suggestion, submitted a corresponding parliamentary question , the government felt under pressure and replied that the claims were based on false information and that they were unreasonable.

Grunert published the statement by the Hamburg deputy chief of police, Günter Bertling, that know-it-all clerks belonged in the gas stove. Disciplinary proceedings that were initiated against Grunert were discontinued in 1974 as no official offense could be found .

In 1974 Grunert discovered a listening device in his office and made the discovery public. It was never possible to find out who had put the bug; however, it has been suggested that Grunert could have done this himself.

With other BDK members, Grunert even considered burning a corpse with his papers on Hamburg's town hall market for publicity reasons.

Espionage for the GDR and criminal judgment

From 1962 to 1969 Grunert was a contact person or candidate for the Ministry for State Security , then until 1985 as an unofficial employee of "Wilhelm Schneider". Between 1971 and 1977 Grunert visited his sister in East Berlin around 30 times without informing his employer beforehand, as prescribed. He later claimed that on this occasion he wanted to establish contact with the GDR trade union federation through an FDGB secretary in order to publicly promote the BDK. After six months of observation , Grunert was arrested in 1977 on suspicion of espionage for the GDR; A Minox mini camera and confidential police records were found in his home . Grunert stated that these were minutes of the Conference of Interior Ministers for BDK purposes, which he had destroyed without being used.

After sixteen months of pre-trial detention, the main proceedings against Grunert were opened before the 3rd criminal division of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . This denied the allegations. After a purely circumstantial evidence , the court Grunert convicted of betrayal of state secrets to two and a half years in prison, but media expressed doubts about the guilty verdict.

Next life

After his release from prison, Grunert tried his luck as a private detective, but due to the verdict he was heavily indebted and therefore emigrated to the GDR in 1985 . Stasi chief Erich Mielke received him there personally and made him a lecturer at the university of the Ministry for State Security . In 1990 he became a pensioner with the Stasi liquidation. In the same year he left the SED, of which he had been a member since 1947. In 1998 he joined the Democratic Socialism Party and two years later ran unsuccessfully for its national executive committee. In 2001, he also unsuccessfully applied for the party to dissolve itself and for the party chairman Gabi Zimmer and her deputy Petra Pau to be excluded , as they had expressed criticism of the forced unification of the SPD and KPD and expressly apologized for the undemocratic behavior of the PDS predecessor party.

Grunert lived in Berlin and Thyon .

Awards

Grunert received several GDR awards, including a. 1986 the Patriotic Order of Merit of the German Democratic Republic in silver.

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Literature (selection)

  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Rolf Grunert. The eocentric adventurer in Heroic "Chekists"? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , pp. 487-517

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 487.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Gerhard Mauz: Yes, if you are a pushover . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1978, p. 89-93 ( online - 25 September 1978 ).
  3. ↑ a b c Some open words. Lummer espionage case: the Christian Democrat and the GDR agent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1989, pp. 26-32 ( online - Sept. 4, 1989 ).
  4. ↑ a b c Big clearance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1977, pp. 33-35 ( Online - May 30, 1977 ).
  5. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 487.
  6. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 487.
  7. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 487
  8. Jump up ↑ Rainer Link: The Spy Who Came from the Kripo - A West-Eastern Agent Destiny , Deutschlandradio from July 31, 2001
  9. ↑ a b Berlin old communist Grunert wants to dissolve PDS at the beginning of October , BZ of August 26, 2001
  10. ↑ Renate Oschlies: Exclusion Procedure - The Witness of the Prosecution , Berliner Zeitung of July 4, 2001.
  11. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 488.
personal data
SURNAME Grunert, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, GDR spy, lecturer at the university of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2006
Place of death Berlin