Siegfried Mampel

Siegfried Mampel (born September 13, 1913 in Halle (Saale) ; † May 3, 2002 ) was a German lawyer who wrote about the legal system of the GDR for almost 50 years .

Life

Studies and World War II

Siegfried Mampel was born as the son of a goods manager. In his hometown he attended the humanistic grammar school, where he graduated from high school in 1932. He then studied law in Halle , Rostock and Berlin . He worked in the service as a trainee lawyer after the 1st legal exam in 1935. He passed the major legal exam to become an assessor in April 1939. When he began serving as a soldier in August 1939, he spent until his release from a US camp in November 1945 more than six years of military service and imprisonment.

Political activity in the Soviet zone

After returning to his hometown, he turned to the CDU and worked for the party from 1945 to 1947 as a legal advisor at the state association of Saxony-Anhalt . From 1946 he also held the post of managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament after the elections in autumn 1946 . During this time he participated in the formulation of a constitution for the state of Saxony-Anhalt and dealt with municipal issues. After he had also made written statements on political issues, the Soviet occupying power forbade him in 1947 to undertake any further political activity. Most of all, he was noticed when he presented a draft law on administrative jurisdiction.

Escape to West Berlin

So Mampel moved to the State Insurance Institute of Saxony-Anhalt and worked there as a clerk for legal issues until December 1950. On June 3, 1950, he joined the Association of Freedom Jurists of the Soviet Zone , the supporting association of the Investigative Committee of Freedom Jurists (UFJ) , as member No. 168 at. At this time he was living in Halle / Saale, but fled to West Berlin shortly afterwards . On April 1, 1951, he became head of the department for labor law and insurance in the investigative committee of freedom lawyers (UFJ). He was promoted to main department head for the economic and social law departments in 1952. In the next few years he published several publications on the GDR under the pseudonym Alfred Leutwein , so as not to endanger his relatives in Halle politically. In 1956, the East Berlin SED newspaper BZ announced Mampel's real name in a gloss that evening . Until 1972 he used the term Central Germany next to "GDR" in his writings.

Administrative activity and all-German institute

In 1958 Mampel became deputy of Walther Rosenthal , the head of the UFJ and at the same time the main department head for the areas of constitution and administration. He was a member of the CDU Berlin and was a district councilor in Berlin-Steglitz . In 1963 he lectured as a lecturer at the University of Political Science in Munich. He then became in 1967 the doctorate to the Dr. jur. In 1977 he was appointed honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . In 1969 the UFJ was integrated into the All-German Institute , where he worked as deputy head of Department VI in the Law and Administration Department . There he retired in March 1978.

On April 19, 1978 he was involved in founding the Society for Research in Germany and remained its first chairman until 1992.

Fonts

• The collective agreement in the Soviet zone of occupation . Bonn 1957.
• with Karl Hauck: Social Policy in Central Germany . Stuttgart 1961.
• The constitution of the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• The Soviet Sector of Berlin; an analysis of its external and internal status . Frankfurt am Main 1963.
• The People's Democratic Order in Central Germany; Texts on the constitutional situation with an introduction . Frankfurt am Main 1963.
• The law in Central Germany. Political and legal theory, constitutional law . Berlin 1966.
• Labor Constitution and Labor Law in Central Germany . Cologne 1966.
• System of rule and constitutional structure in Central Germany. The formal and the substantive legal constitution of the "GDR" . Cologne 1968.
• The socialist constitution of the German Democratic Republic; Text and comment . Frankfurt am Main 1972.
• with Gernot Gutman: Problems of comparing systems . Berlin 1986.
• Science and research in divided Germany . Berlin 1988.
• with Jens Hacker: European integration and the German question . Berlin 1989.
• with Alexander Uschakow: The reforms in Poland and the revolutionary renewals in the GDR . Berlin 1991.
• The underground struggle of the Ministry for State Security against the investigative committee of freedom lawyers in West Berlin (series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, vol. 1). 4th, revised and significantly expanded edition. Berlin 1999.
• Totalitarian system of rule. Normative character, definition, constant and variable essentials, instruments . Berlin 2001.
• Kidnapping case Dr. Walter Linse - kidnapping and judicial murder as a means of state terror . 3. Edition. Berlin 2006.

Awards

• 1983: Large Federal Cross of Merit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registration of Siegfried Mampel in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Gottfried Zieger: Law, economy, politics in divided Germany . Cologne 1983, p. VI.
3. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . Volume II, Munich 2003, p. 2076.
4. ^ Siegfried Mampel: kidnapping case of Dr. Walter lens . Berlin 2006, p. 84.

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Mampel in the catalog of the German National Library