Kurras war Doppelagent

Stasi nannte Kurras am 9 juni schon einen MOERDER.

Waffennarr - taeglich schiessen.. Schenkte seinem Sohn am 10. Geburtstag
eine Pistole.

Am Donnerstag gab er zu : ER WAR STASI AGENT

- haette die BRD revoluz jugend gewusst, dass er Stasi war...
- er war ein doppelagent.

Das Ermittlungsverfahren um den Tod von Benno Ohnesorg soll neu aufgerollt werden. Die Vereinigung Opfer des Stalinismus (VOS) hat bei der Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft Strafanzeige wegen Mordes gegen den früheren Westberliner Polizisten Karl-Heinz Kurras gestellt. Auch der ehemalige Chef des Sozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbundes (SDS), Tilman Fichter, fordert von der Generalbundesanwaltschaft, das Verfahren erneut aufzunehmen.

Nach neuesten Erkenntnissen der Stasi-Unterlagenbehörde war der heute 81-Jährige Kurras seit den 50er Jahren Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter der DDR-Staatsssicherheit und später auch Mitglied der SED. In zwei Prozessen wurde er vom Vorwurf der fahrlässigen Tötung freigesprochen. Kurras hatte am 2. Juni 1967 am Rande einer Demonstration Ohnesorg aus nächster Nähe erschossen.

Aufgrund der Faktenlage sei Mord zwar schwer nachzuweisen und die Anzeige eher symbolisch, sagte VOS-Vizevorsitzender Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel der taz. "Aber wir erhoffen uns, dass die Aufarbeitung der Verstrickungen Westberlins mit der Stasi einen neuen Schub bekommt." Es sei sehr wohl bekannt gewesen, dass innerhalb der Polizei in Westberlin die Stasi tätig war.

Aber auch 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer gebe es große Defizite in der Aufarbeitung. "Die bisherige Debatte um die DDR als Unrechtsstaat lenkt ab von der Frage, welche Verbindungen es zwischen Westberlin und der Stasi gab - so wie man ausblendete, welche Nachkriegspolitiker mit dem Naziregime kollaborierten", so Holzapfel.

Sowohl der VOS als auch CDU und die Grüne fordern eine zügige Aufklärung des Falles Kurras. Der Senat müsse die Personalakte des pensionierten Polizisten schnellstmöglich auf Verstrickungen in das Netzwerk der SED und Stasi überprüfen und einen Bericht vorlegen, so die CDU. Jochen Staadt vom Forschungsverbund SED-Staat an der FU Berlin hingegen bezweifelt, "ob man bei der Akte eines einfachen Polizisten viel finden wird". Interessanter sei eher die Frage, wieviele Senatdienststellen Kontakte zur Stasi hatten.

Für den Direktor der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, Hubertus Knabe, zeigen die Enthüllungen, dass "schlichte Erklärungen nicht mehr funktionieren und Feindbilder durcheinander kommen." Bei dem Versuch der Aufarbeitung stößt man nach Ansicht Knabes im Westen aber nach wie vor auf große Blockaden - sowohl in den Parteien, den Gewerkschaften als auch in den linken Bewegungen. So sei es auch heute ein Tabuthema, dass die DDR-Staatssicherheit in der außerparlamentarischen Opposition mit vielen Agenten verankert gewesen sei.

DIE R.A.F. WAR UNTERWANDERT... siehe Ulrich Schmuecker Prozess...
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Theoretisch ist es moeglich, dass der RAF Terror gewuenscht und UNTERSTUETZT
war, damit die Jugend und die Revolution VERTEUFELT werden konnte.

KURRAS was a double agent for Western and Eastern Spies.

East German Spy Shot West Berlin Martyr

The name of Benno Ohnesorg became a rallying cry for the West German left after he was shot dead by police in 1967. Newly discovered documents indicate that the cop who shot him may have been a spy for the East German secret police.

It was one of the most important events leading up to the wave of radical left-wing violence which washed over West Germany in the 1970s. On the evening of June 2, 1967, the literature student Benno Ohnesorg took part in a demonstration at West Berlin's opera house. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, was to attend and the gathered students wanted to call attention to his brutal regime.

The protests, though, got out of hand. Pro-shah demonstrators, some of them flown in from Iran for the occasion, battled with the student protestors. West Berlin police also did their part, brutally beating back the crowd. At 8:30 p.m., a shot was fired, and a short time later the 26-year-old Ohnesorg, having been hit in the back of the head, became the left wing's first martyr.

Now, though, the history of the event may have to be re-written. New documents discovered in the Stasi archive -- the vast collection of files left behind by the East German secret police -- reveal that the policeman who shot Ohnesorg, Karl-Heinz Kurras, could in fact have been a spy for East Germany's communist regime.

In an article that will appear in late May in Deutschlandarchiv, a periodical dedicated to the ongoing project of German reunification, Helmut Müller-Enbergs and Cornelia Jabs reveal that documents they found in the Stasi papers show that Kurras began working together with the Stasi in 1955. He had wanted to move to East Berlin to work for the East German police. Instead, he signed an agreement with the Stasi to remain with the West Berlin police force and spy for the communist state.

As a result of the new information, criminal charges have once again been filed against Kurras, who was acquitted twice, once in 1967 and again in 1970, of negligent homicide charges related to Ohnesorg's death. Kurras told the Berlin paper Tagesspiegel on Friday that he had never worked together with the Stasi.

But in addition to finding the agreement between Kurras and the Stasi, the two researchers also discovered numerous documents indicating that the East Germans were pleased with the information Kurras passed along -- particularly given that he was posted to a division responsible for rooting out moles within the West German police force.

Immediately after Ohnesorg's death, Kurras received a Stasi communication ordering him to destroy his records and to "cease activities for the moment." Kurras responded with his acquiescence and wrote "I need money for an attorney."

The exact circumstances surrounding the death of Ohnesorg have never been completely clarified. Kurras himself, now 81, gave conflicting versions of the story during the investigation but the official version has long been that Kurras fired in self defense. Many others point to witness accounts whereby the police were beating Ohnesorg when the shot was fired.

It is still unclear how the new evidence might play into history's understanding of the tragic event. The day was one full of violence, with demonstrators and police battling each other with pipes, wooden clubs and stones. Police were further incited by rumors that an officer had been stabbed earlier in the evening. Ohnesorg himself, however, was not directly involved in the violence.

West Berlin in the 1960s and 70s became a focal point of German left wing radicalism. The city had long been left-leaning, and the fact that Berliners were exempt from military service meant that it became a magnate for pacifists and anti-state activists.

Ohnesorg's death gave them an immediate rallying cry. As the left-wing movement became more radical, many justified their violent activities by pointing to the police brutality that led to the student's death. A letter written by Ulrike Meinhof announcing the founding of the Red Army Faction, which appeared in SPIEGEL in the fall of 1967, explicitly mentioned the Ohnesorg incident.

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The RAF went on to terrorize Germany for decades, ultimately killing over 30 people across the country. The radical "June 2 Movement" used the date of the incident in its name.

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Kurras, for his part, seems to have been a highly valued Stasi agent. In his files, it is noted that "he is prepared to complete any task assigned to him." It also mentions that he is notable for having the "courage and temerity necessary to accomplish difficult missions."

cgh -- with wire reports