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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 Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Mid ...
and studied law from 1943 to 1950 at the
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. Rebmann became Public Prosecutor General on the 1 July 1977 as the successor of
Siegfried Buback Siegfried Buback (3 January 1920, Wilsdruff, Saxony – 7 April 1977, Karlsruhe) was the Attorney General of West Germany from 1974 until his murder in 1977. Life and career Buback studied at the University of Leipzig. From 1940 to 1945, he w ...
who fell victim to an assassination by militants of the
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(RAF). After with
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the president of the
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, was sequestrated by RAF militants in September 1977, he was in favor of a retroactive implementation of the death penalty. In 1989, he was a leading force behind the implementation of a crown witness rule. He stayed in the post of a Public Prosecutor General until 1990.


References

20th-century German lawyers 1924 births 2005 deaths Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-law-bio-stub