Martin Antonenko
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Six years in prison for Erich Mielke!
On October 26, 1993, the former Minister for State Security...
...Ex-member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the state party SED, ex-member of the National Defense Council and GDR Army General Erich Mielke...
... sentenced to six years in prison by the Berlin Regional Court.
Of the appearances before the court of the formerly feared and all-powerful, it is particularly remembered that he always appeared with a leather hat and walking stick..:
Significantly, however, Mielke does not get the prison sentence because of his tyranny by the feared and hated "Stasi"!
After the collapse of the GDR regime on December 7, 1989, Mielke was arrested and taken into custody on charges of "damaging the economy" and "high treason through anti-constitutional actions", but was released on March 8, 1990 for health reasons .
In July of the same year he was remanded in custody...
...after the GDR People's Police Hospital had confirmed the person's ability to be detained, including for "crimes against humanity" and "perversion of the law".
First he was taken to a West Berlin hospital, then to the Rummelsburg prison in East Berlin and finally to Plötzensee.
On October 4, 1990, at the request of his lawyer, Mielke was transferred to Moabit Prison because of poor prison conditions, where he stayed for a long time.
The West Berlin public prosecutor's office (where they know that it will be difficult and time-consuming to obtain a conviction against Mielke for his activities as head of the Stasi), but wants to see the man convicted at all costs (like many of his compatriots in East and West!) - and for this purpose now pulls a completely unexpected trump card out of his sleeve...:
In 1931, the KPD member Erich Mielke belonged to the "Party Self-Defense", a paramilitary organized and armed group of the KPD.
In this capacity, he and "Self-Defense" member Erich Ziemer ...
... shot on August 9, 1931, on the Bülowplatz in Berlin, the police officer Captain Paul starting (known as "Schweinebacke" / "Pork Cheek"))...
...and Hauptmann Franz Lenck...
...on the open street.
The case caused quite a stir throughout the Reich, starting and steering were buried with great sympathy from the Berlin population...:
By the way, the double murder was an act of revenge for a comrade who had been shot dead by police officers during street fights in Wedding a few days earlier...:
A few days later, the KPD party organization sent the two murderers Mielke and Ziemer to the Soviet Union.
A police wanted poster from 1931 shows Mielke and Ziemer at the top right - at the bottom left we see the later GDR head of state and party Walter Ulbricht, who was also involved in the "party self-defense"...:
The double police murder has been determined - and what may still be missing can be found in Erich Mielke himself, who had kept the original files with his personal documents in the safe of his office in the "Stasi" headquarters over the years...:
Mielke's accomplice Ziemer can no longer be brought to justice, he fell in October 1937 in the Spanish Civil War as an inter-brigadeist in Aragon - and was posthumously awarded the medal and title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" by the USSR...:
Incidentally, Mielke also fought in Spain - albeit as a member of the Soviet secret service and with the rank of captain in the Spanish people's army under the alias "Franz Leissner" - not against the enemy, but against real or supposed deviants in his own ranks!
The picture shows the not exactly tall "Capitàn Leissner" in Spanish uniform as the second from the right...:
And now: Six years for Erich Mielke because of an ancient story! It remains to be seen whether justice has been done with it!
However, the boiling soul of the people calms down again - after all, the man is behind bars for the time being...
At the end of 1995, after having served more than two-thirds of the six years, Mielke was released on parole at the age of 88...:
He will live for another five years and will fall asleep peacefully on May 21, 2000 in a nursing home in Berlin-Neu-Hohenschoenhausen.
According to his wish, he was buried on June 6, 2000 in an unnamed urn grave at the central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde.
The picture shows his widow Gertrud and his son Frank...:
Only one of his former closest associates appeared: His former deputy Generalleutnant Gerhard Neiber (third from left in the picture)...
... who salutes at the grave.
On October 26, 1993, the former Minister for State Security...
...Ex-member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the state party SED, ex-member of the National Defense Council and GDR Army General Erich Mielke...
... sentenced to six years in prison by the Berlin Regional Court.
Of the appearances before the court of the formerly feared and all-powerful, it is particularly remembered that he always appeared with a leather hat and walking stick..:
Significantly, however, Mielke does not get the prison sentence because of his tyranny by the feared and hated "Stasi"!
After the collapse of the GDR regime on December 7, 1989, Mielke was arrested and taken into custody on charges of "damaging the economy" and "high treason through anti-constitutional actions", but was released on March 8, 1990 for health reasons .
In July of the same year he was remanded in custody...
...after the GDR People's Police Hospital had confirmed the person's ability to be detained, including for "crimes against humanity" and "perversion of the law".
First he was taken to a West Berlin hospital, then to the Rummelsburg prison in East Berlin and finally to Plötzensee.
On October 4, 1990, at the request of his lawyer, Mielke was transferred to Moabit Prison because of poor prison conditions, where he stayed for a long time.
The West Berlin public prosecutor's office (where they know that it will be difficult and time-consuming to obtain a conviction against Mielke for his activities as head of the Stasi), but wants to see the man convicted at all costs (like many of his compatriots in East and West!) - and for this purpose now pulls a completely unexpected trump card out of his sleeve...:
In 1931, the KPD member Erich Mielke belonged to the "Party Self-Defense", a paramilitary organized and armed group of the KPD.
In this capacity, he and "Self-Defense" member Erich Ziemer ...
... shot on August 9, 1931, on the Bülowplatz in Berlin, the police officer Captain Paul starting (known as "Schweinebacke" / "Pork Cheek"))...
...and Hauptmann Franz Lenck...
...on the open street.
The case caused quite a stir throughout the Reich, starting and steering were buried with great sympathy from the Berlin population...:
By the way, the double murder was an act of revenge for a comrade who had been shot dead by police officers during street fights in Wedding a few days earlier...:
A few days later, the KPD party organization sent the two murderers Mielke and Ziemer to the Soviet Union.
A police wanted poster from 1931 shows Mielke and Ziemer at the top right - at the bottom left we see the later GDR head of state and party Walter Ulbricht, who was also involved in the "party self-defense"...:
The double police murder has been determined - and what may still be missing can be found in Erich Mielke himself, who had kept the original files with his personal documents in the safe of his office in the "Stasi" headquarters over the years...:
Mielke's accomplice Ziemer can no longer be brought to justice, he fell in October 1937 in the Spanish Civil War as an inter-brigadeist in Aragon - and was posthumously awarded the medal and title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" by the USSR...:
Incidentally, Mielke also fought in Spain - albeit as a member of the Soviet secret service and with the rank of captain in the Spanish people's army under the alias "Franz Leissner" - not against the enemy, but against real or supposed deviants in his own ranks!
The picture shows the not exactly tall "Capitàn Leissner" in Spanish uniform as the second from the right...:
And now: Six years for Erich Mielke because of an ancient story! It remains to be seen whether justice has been done with it!
However, the boiling soul of the people calms down again - after all, the man is behind bars for the time being...
At the end of 1995, after having served more than two-thirds of the six years, Mielke was released on parole at the age of 88...:
He will live for another five years and will fall asleep peacefully on May 21, 2000 in a nursing home in Berlin-Neu-Hohenschoenhausen.
According to his wish, he was buried on June 6, 2000 in an unnamed urn grave at the central cemetery in Friedrichsfelde.
The picture shows his widow Gertrud and his son Frank...:
Only one of his former closest associates appeared: His former deputy Generalleutnant Gerhard Neiber (third from left in the picture)...
... who salutes at the grave.
