Central investigative body for government and association crime

The Central Investigation Center for Government and Association Crime ( ZERV ) was a Berlin police authority that existed between 1991 and 2000 to deal with the SED and GDR past criminally.

ZERV was established on September 1, 1991 as a criminal investigation department at the Berlin Police Headquarters and dissolved again on December 31, 2000. After the Senate Administration, she processed 20,327 preliminary investigations, of which 16,323 were assigned to government crime (Section 2) and 4,004 to association- related white-collar crime (Section 1). Manfred Kittlaus was the head of ZERV until 1998 . 500 federal and state officials and 200 investigators from the Berlin police work for the authority.

Preliminary investigation

Unit 1 (white-collar crime)

Embezzlement / embezzlement of KoKo assets;
Arms trade in connection with KoKo companies;
Blackmail and coercion of GDR citizens to sell real estate in connection with intended departure;
Embezzlement / embezzlement of assets of the NVA , the MfS , the assets of parties and mass organizations of the GDR ;
Misappropriation of federal funds that had been made available for the withdrawal of the CIS troops
Fraud in connection with the monetary union (estimated damage DM 20 billion)

Unit 2 (Government Crime)

580 on the abduction of people from the Federal Republic of Germany
50 regarding contract killings by the MfS
3236 regarding killings on the inner-German border ( wall rifle trials )
346 for perversion of justice in lawsuits
430 against prison staff (mistreatment of prisoners)
50 against functionaries for doping in competitive sports , including in the sports medicine service of the GDR

One ZERV case concerned an illegalization concept of Department VIII of the GDR State Security that was uncovered through the discovery of documents . The Stasi employees were supposed to establish themselves in the free economy by means of legends and false papers. It was determined that Werner Hennig ( Finance Department ) had planned the division of MfS assets among stable cadres, which, according to ZERV, led to several dozen new security companies being founded after the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution .

ZERV has determined 2.5 billion DM of former GDR assets that have disappeared.

literature

BPB: White-collar crime in the unification process
Dissemination and control of white-collar crime in connection with the privatization of the state-owned enterprises of the GDR by the Treuhandanstalt Forschungsbericht Universität Münster

Web links

Manfred Kittlaus : Lecture on ZERV from May 13, 1993

Individual evidence

↑ jw: ZERV investigates about 50 officials: doping as a crime of bodily harm . January 6, 2015. Accessed February 14, 2016.
^ From the sports medicine service straight into the blood ( memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, accessed on February 7, 2016
^ Frank Bachner: Of all things, Chief Doper Manfred Höppner was the most important informant of the criminal police . In: tagesspiegel.de . April 28, 2000.

[bz15-1] w: ZERV investigates about 50 officials: doping as a crime of bodily harm . January 6, 2015. Accessed February 14, 2016.

[2] From the sports medicine service straight into the blood ( memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, accessed on February 7, 2016

[3] Frank Bachner: Of all things, Chief Doper Manfred Höppner was the most important informant of the criminal police . In: tagesspiegel.de . April 28, 2000.