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Politische Strafgefangene in der DDR: Versuch einer statistischen Beschreibung

Political prisoners in the GDR: an attemped statistic description
[journal article]

Schröder, Wilhelm Heinz
Wilke, Jürgen

Abstract

Die Möglichkeiten einer systematischen quantitativen Analyse der politischen Strafgefangenen in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ) und der DDR des Zeitraum 1945-1989 werden ausgelotet. In Form zahlreicher Tabellen wird eine erste wissenschaftliche Quellenbasis geliefert. Der Begriff des 'politisc... view more

Die Möglichkeiten einer systematischen quantitativen Analyse der politischen Strafgefangenen in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ) und der DDR des Zeitraum 1945-1989 werden ausgelotet. In Form zahlreicher Tabellen wird eine erste wissenschaftliche Quellenbasis geliefert. Der Begriff des 'politischen Gefangenen' in den alten Bundesländern und der DDR wird definiert und operationalisiert. Die 'politischen Straftaten', 'politischen Täter' und 'politischen Strafgefangenen' werden statistisch beschrieben. Als historische Höhepunkte in der politischen Strafverfolgung werden der Volksaufstand 1953, der Mauerbau 1961 und der Einmarsch in die CSSR 1968 genannt. Weitere Aspekte sind die politischen Gefangenen nach dem Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, im Militärbereich, die Amnestien, die Verurteilungen nach den Strafparagraphen 213 (ungesetzlicher Grenzübertritt) und 249 (asoziales Verhalten), die Ermittlungsergebnisse des ehemaligen Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit und die psychiatrische Behandlung im Strafvollzug der DDR. Insgesamt wird die Zahl der potentiellen Strafgefangenen mit politischem Einschlag auf 170.000 bis 280.000 geschätzt. Darin sind die Internierten und die Verurteilten der Sowjetischem Militärtribunale nicht enthalten. (prf)... view less


'The statistics of prisoners and criminality regarding political offences have been kept strictly secret in the SBZ/DDR. First of all, the article discusses the definition and operationalization of the term 'political prisoner'. A short reference is made to the complex situation of the data and sour... view more

'The statistics of prisoners and criminality regarding political offences have been kept strictly secret in the SBZ/DDR. First of all, the article discusses the definition and operationalization of the term 'political prisoner'. A short reference is made to the complex situation of the data and sources available for these themes. Following to it is a statistical description of political offences, of political criminals and political prisoners for the period of 1945 to 1989. It has been attempted to build up long statistical time series for the individual political offences. Particularly the peaks of political persecution in the DDR were statistically analyzed. It is impossible to give exact numbers regarding the political prisoners in the SBZ/DDR (1945 - 1989); at the present state of research it is possible to estimate the total number of political prisoners in between 170.000 min. and 280.000 max.' (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
research; amnesty; quantitative method; old federal states; German Democratic Republic (GDR); espionage; criminal; Federal Republic of Germany; statistics; historical development; flight; white-collar criminality; Ministry of State Security (GDR); criminal law; offense; Socialist Unity Party of Germany (GDR); military; Soviet Occupation Zone; political prisoner

Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods

Method
documentation; empirical; development of methods; quantitative empirical; basic research

Document language
German

Publication Year
1998

Page/Pages
p. 3-78

Journal
Historical Social Research, 23 (1998) 4

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.23.1998.4.3-78

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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