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Hermann Kreutzer
Born
(1924-05-03)3 May 1924
Saalfeld, Germany
Died
3 March 2007(2007-03-03) (aged 82)
Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)
Political activist Dissident and resistance activist (Nazi Germany and East Germany) "Häftlingsfreikauf" negotiator
Political party
SPD
Spouse
Dorothée "Dorle" Fischer
Parent
Paul Kreutzer
Hermann Kreutzer (3 May 1924 – 3 March 2007) was a German political activist (SPD). As a teenager, he was caught distributing anti-government leaflets and spent the final months of the National Socialist period serving the first part of a ten year prison sentence. Towards the end of 1945 he entered mainstream politics in his home region, which was then being administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone. He campaigned against the party merger between the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.[1] A further lengthy period in government detention followed. In 1956, following high level government negotiations, he was released and transferred from East to West Berlin.[2][3][4]
He later came to the notice of commentators as one of the West German back-room negotiators involved in the "Häftlingsfreikauf" programme, which involved East German political prisoners being released to West Germany in return for large amounts of cash. When the programme began in 1962, it was a government secret on both sides of the border between the Germany. However, as more former East German political prisoners turned up in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s, the realities of "Häftlingsfreikauf" became progressively a matter of public knowledge. By 1980, some of the complexities of Hermann Kreutzer's involvement in the programme were being openly discussed in the West German press.[5]
^Karl Wilhelm Fricke; Peter Steinbach; Johannes Tuchel (2002). Paul, Hermann und Dorothee Kreuzer. C.H.Beck. pp. 102–109. ISBN 978-3-406-47619-8. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Bernd Florath. "Kreutzer, Hermann * 3.5.1924, † 28.3.2007 Sozialdemokrat, Opfer stalinistischer Repression". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
^"Das Verhältnis von Opferbiographien und Täterschicksalen" (PDF). Vortrag von Hermann Kreutzerin der Gedenkbibliothek zu Ehren der Opfer des Stalinismusam. Gedenkbibliothek zu Ehren der Opfer des Kommunismus e.V., Berlin. 10 April 1995. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
^"Überzeugt und aufrecht: Zum Tod Hermann Kreutzers". Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, Berlin. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
^"Am leeren Schreibtisch". Egon Franke schickte seinen Berliner Spitzenbeamten und Parteifreund Hermann Kreutzer in Urlaub. Der Spiegel (online). 4 August 1980. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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