Klaus Croissant

Klaus Croissant ( born May 24, 1931 in Kirchheim unter Teck, † 28 March 2002 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer. He gained notoriety as a defender of Andreas Baader in the root home trial of the leader of the Red Army Faction (1975 - 1977). Croissant was sentenced in 1979 itself for supporting a terrorist group. He later was politically active for the West Berlin alternative list, and then for the PDS. In the 1980s, Klaus Croissant Unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.

Life

Croissant was the choice defender Andreas Baader in the root home process, but was excluded from the court in the course of the process. Croissant helped to maintain the communication system between the members of the RAF by the forwarding of cells circulars. After the death of Ulrike Meinhof 1976, he was the executor.

Police arrested croissant on June 23, 1975; the warrant was placed on bail from custody. Croissant fled to France on July 11, 1977 and applied for political asylum there. In France, he was arrested on September 30, 1977 and delivered on 17 November 1977 addressed to the Federal Republic. On February 16, 1979, he was sentenced to a prison term of two and a half years for aiding a terrorist organization.

" Klaus Croissant was a lawyer, justice conceived as something political, and therefore the boundary between defense of his clients and political commitment has never been clearly drawn for. " Oliver Tolmein described in retrospect in the newspaper Friday croissants attitude as a lawyer as follows

After his release from prison croissant regained his license to practice law and worked in Berlin again as a trial lawyer. He began at this time for the Ministry of State Security of the GDR to work, which signed him in 1981 as an unofficial employees " IN Thaler ". He also recruited his partner, the taz - editor and later Green MEP, Brigitte Heinrich, and led it until her death in 1987.

Croissant was a long time member of the West Berlin alternatives list and tried together with the Green Dirk Schneider, another IM, there are political allies. When his IM activity in 1992 was known, he lost most of his contacts and friends in the scene. To this end, he said in 1992 in an interview:. . "It was not a question to reveal any Left My interlocutor but not as enemies of the people, the goal was but, were the knowledge of the East German side of the left outside of the West German SED brother party to improve DKP, and since East Berlin had a legitimate interest. " Croissants candidacy for the office of Mayor of Kreuzberg (for the Alternative List ) was unsuccessful. In 1990, he joined the PDS.