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- SummarySummary of all three tapes: This material shows a press conference with the Minister of the Interior Diestel, government spokesman Gehler, State Secretary Achter of the Ministry of Education and Prof. Dr. Schüßler (Head of Department in the Ministry of the Interior for Cooperation with the People's Chamber Committee for the Dissolution of the Stasi). The main topic of the conference will be the former employees of the State Security in the Ministry of the Interior. Various aspects are addressed, such as changes to the Foreign Trade Regulation, disclosure of OibEs (officers in special deployment), number of former State Security personnel in Diestel Ministry, handling of files, takeover of former MfS personnel, Diestel's alleged breach of law and possible sabotage of reconnaissance work by former officers in special deployment.
- ShotlistC1/1385: Diestel walks through conference hall; Gehler takes a seat in the middle; Diestel OH; Diestel and Gehler in conversation; Diestel opens mineral water bottle; Press conference opens; Spokesman NiB; State Secretary Achter (?) OH (Ministry of Education); Prof. Dr. Schüßler OH (Head of Department in the Ministry of the Interior for Cooperation with the People's Chamber Committee for the Dissolution of the Stasi); Gehler OT to the Council of Ministers meeting (partly NiB): "....would like to tell you something about the situation/ Cabinet decided to amend the regulation on foreign trade/ significant/ corresponds to the UN decision to boycott the regime in Iraq/ outstanding point of discussion was dealing with the Stasi files (state security)/ for the correct handling of the documents the Council of Ministers expects that the lists are not simply given in the corresponding subordinate areas, but that the ministers and state secretaries receive such lists/ cannot expect them from us name/ gave decision, would like to read from it: The Council of Ministers decides to ask the parliamentary committee to hand over to the competent ministers the lists of former MfS, AfNS employees, in particular officers in special service, available in accordance with its constitutional responsibility.../ Council of Ministers gives order to draw conclusions on the persons`/ on the conclusions / people are on leave with immediate effect / responsible leaders will have to hold talks with these persons / these persons cannot be taken over into German civil servant status/ next point Environment...", Journalists in the conference hall, various recordings; Gehler OT on the Palace of the Republic: "The government has concerns about the continued use of the Palace of the Republic/ asbestos contamination/ expert opinions are being obtained..."; anonymous hand makes notes; recordings of journalists; Gehler OT (NiB): "..in Babelsberg there were great uncertainties/ to promote artistic film production in the studios/ to maintain and preserve the films entrusted to the foundation/ to finance non-commercial work with the Defa films.../ documentary and children's films should be preserved..."; Recordings of journalists in the conference room, various shots; journalists from the front; conference room T with speaker's table; excerpt from the daily newspaper "Der Tagesspiegel" with article about Diestel; puller for journalists in the conference room; view into the conference room, filmed over the shoulder of the speakers; view from podium to conference room; Lateral speaker's table; pan to conference room; Gehler OH; Diestel OH; Thistel OT: "I placed the order, that for the decision-making of the Government Commission a complex information material on the OibE problem area (officer in special deployment) is to be prepared / a secret structure about which much was talked / required material was prepared by the Committee for Documentation/Computer Science in coordination with the financial bodies and the working group Braun and handed it over to the members of the government commission/ the list of OibEs managed by name drawn up with the financial bodies remained under security precautions in the committee/ a special mission was carried out by the special committee of the People's Chamber in the committee for checking security in depots with personal data that the ministries finally need information and names in order to finally be able to make personnel decisions/ asked in a press conference for the transfer of this information and subsequently received two lists with a total of 57 names and 15 personal identification numbers from Mr. Gauck/ both lists were handed over to my State Secretary/ previous investigations show that 13 employees in the MdI (Ministry of the Interior) and the MdI (Ministry of the Interior) have been working for the Ministry of the Interior for a long time. in direct institutions, here in particular in the Central Criminal Police Office, 47 employees in subordinate offices, district authorities of the German People's Police, in schools and the like and 12 persons could not yet be determined as members of my department / 16 of the 60 employees determined have already been dismissed, 26 are on leave of absence and in 18 cases there is a further examination / since Friday personnel decisions have to be made / the work with these files has to be carried out exclusively by this parliamentary special committee mentioned by me / courts and public prosecutor's offices can work in connection with ongoing proceedings under certain legal conditions, I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I am not a member of the Council of Ministers and to inform you that I am not a member of the Council of Ministers and that I have not committed any legal violations or defended myself against accusations that I am expected to do so. I would like to make it clear that since May the circumstances and ideas as to what has naturally changed the course of time with unity have changed.10. the time of the accession/ GDR organs as well as the committee have the possibility still about three weeks to work on this problem area/ complete processing of this problem cannot take place up to the 03./ rework must be carried out ..."; C1/1386: Conference room; Prof. Dr. Schüßler OH (head of department in the Ministry of the Interior for cooperation with the Volkskammerausschuss zur Auflösung der Stasi); Schüßler OT: "...Telephone conversation between Mr. Gauck and I took place/asked to handle the necessary work for coping with this not easy problem/ agreed with us that in the remaining weeks intensive and certainly also complicational situations have to be worked on"; Diestel answers journalists' questions; Thistel OT: "Is there no doubt at all on the part of the government and from my point of view that former employees of the state security have to be removed quickly and at short notice/ but can it not be that the body that has to elaborate this information and make it available to the ministries so that they can react, that this information gets to us via the press/ is circumstance that we have criticized/ can only remove people then? when I have knowledge about their conversations, their past / have had personal conversations until Friday / have met some honest people and have removed them then / on Friday I have received lists and we have made the appropriate personnel decisions / highest railway that we solve problem before accession."; Diestel answers journalists' questions; Diestel OT on the lists: "I have received two lists for my ministry/ one with 57 names and one with 15 personal identification numbers"; Gehler OT (NiB) on the lists for the government spokesman's area: "Mr. Müller received a list from Mr. Gauck on Friday/ there were 14 people on the list (press centre), four of them no longer worked here/ Mr. Müller spoke with the others/ were on leave for the time being..."; Diestel OT on the breach of law: "...it was stated that I could only have come into possession of the lists under a breach of law/ have not committed a breach of law/ have stated that I have repeatedly asked Mr. Gauck to provide me with the information personally/ have then gone into public and lo and behold, immediately afterwards I also received the lists..."; Diestel OT on the figures: "Only Mr. Gauck can be asked about the figures/ I have 57 plus 15 for a ministry with approx. 115000/ can imagine that customs, for example, are of a completely different size/ probably a considerable problem for the National People's Army"; Diestel OT on the breach of law: "...have the task to ensure the safe custody of this file material and not the processing/ only the special committee has the right to research this file material..."; Diestel OT on the question of whether he can exclude the possibility that someone from the state committee had access to the data on the diskette/ salary lists of the Stasi/ Kriminaloberrat Schulz: "Of course I cannot exclude this because I do not know what happened to the tapes beforehand/ Kriminaloberrat Schulz is on leave/ would help us if we were to find further lists..."; Diestel OT on MfS employees: "...have not hired them/ have taken over within the framework of the legal succession/ they were already there when we started on 12.04./ have explained how many MfS members have been in the Ministry of the Interior/ during my term of office were counted to me structurally because of a structural change, because of an assignment of a company, about 100 employees of this company/ otherwise I have not hired any MfS employees"; Diestel OT on the question whether he was aware of the term UIM (unknown informal employees): "Of course I know this/ the number of informal employees can only become known through intensive elaboration of the material..."; Gehler OT to the lists: "I immediately asked whether a list has arrived in the Prime Minister's office / has not yet arrived / therefore this urgency of the decision / for me the way Mr. Gauck has gone is not in order / to go to Mr. Müller / I am the government spokesman and the press center is under me / would have liked to be the first to know ... / procedure would have to be corrected / can not be that everyone reads this list."; Diestel OT on the cooperation with Gauck: "...agreement that it is impossible for former Stasi functionaries to sit in our ranks/ members of the People's Chamber with a Stasi past impossible/ now time pressure/ believe that the area under my control is just as much based on the conviction that the problem needs to be solved as Mr Gauck and his colleagues see it in the same way"; Diestel OT: "I'm very glad that I was the first minister who, with his tenacity, managed to be the first to clean up his area"; Diestel OT: "...doesn't want to evaluate why 1 ½ months were necessary to complete the list for my ministry/ surely this also has to do with work problems/ Mr. Gauck is a parliamentarian, has to know himself what has to be done with the work results/ I can't have an overview of which work results he completed at which time..."; Diestel OT: "...considerable corrections were made to this material at a time when the de Maizière government had no influence on this issue."; C1/1387: Conference room; press conference with Diestel; Diestel OH; Diestel answers journalists' questions; Diestel OT: "...consider the things which the People's Chamber has pushed by giving Dr. Krause the order to negotiate to be sufficient and completely legitimate"; Diestel OT on the question of whether it is possible that the OibEs exposed in his area (officer in special deployment) have sabotaged the reconnaissance work on the Stasi issue: "So in my area there was no OibE/ there were OibEs in the central criminal investigation department, that can't be ruled out/ theoretically there would have been the possibility."; Diestel OT: "There is agreement on both sides that this problem area must continue to be dealt with in an institutionalized way..."; Press conference ends; Journalists rise; Diestel and Gehler in conversation (without sound)
- TagsGerman Democratic Republic; State Security (Stasi); Press Conference (PK); Dissolution; Ministry of State Security (MfS); Minister of Education; Minister; Minister of the Interior; Ministry of the Interior; State Secretary; Politics; Politician; Politician; Man; Government Commission; Wende; Disclosure; Officer on Special Mission (OibE); Accession; German Unification; Reunification; Stasi Act; Special Committee; Unknown Informal Staff (UiM); Press Conference (PK); Unknown Informal Staff (UiM);
- Decade1990
- Production Year1990
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- Actors
- Personalities Schüßler, Peter-Michael Diestel, Matthias Gehler
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- Camera Kühne
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AILS
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