Kurt Rebmann
Kurt Rebmann (30 May 1924 – 21 April 2005) was a German lawyer and from 1977 to 1990 'Generalbundesanwalt' (Public Prosecutor General), the highest federal prosecutor of Germany.
Life and achievements[]
Rebmann was born in 1924 in the southwestern town of Heilbronn and studied law from 1943 to 1950 at the University of Tübingen.[1] Rebmann became Public Prosecutor General on the 1 July 1977[2] as the successor of Siegfried Buback who fell victim to an assassination by militants of the Red Army Faction (RAF).[3] After with Hanns Martin Schleyer the president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, was sequestrated by RAF militants in September 1977, he was in favor of a retroactive implementation of the death penalty.[4] In 1989, he was a leading force behind the implementation of a crown witness rule.[5] He stayed in the post of a Public Prosecutor General until 1990.[2]
References[]
- ^ "RAF - Dem Rechtsstaat einen Gefallen". www.freitag.de.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Der Generalbundesanwalt - Prof. Dr. Kurt Rebmann - Ehemaliger Generalbundesanwalt". www.generalbundesanwalt.de. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ "GESTORBEN : Kurt Rebmann - DER SPIEGEL 17/2005". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ ""Die Deutschen sind irrsinnig geworden" - DER SPIEGEL 36/1987". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ Janßen, Karl-Heinz; Brunner, Erwin; Riedl, Joachim; Sontheimer, Michael (21 November 1986). "Wunderwaffe Kronzeuge". www.zeit.de. p. 3–4. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
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