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Karl Wienand (born 15 December 1926 in Lindenpütz; died 10 October 2011 in Trier^[1]) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and secret agent for the DDR's Ministry of State Security (MfS).

Life

Karl Wienand's father, a German communist party member, was frequently detained as an enemy of the Nazi regime^[2] and often demonstrated against Robert Ley. The Nazis would later kill the man.^[3]

After distinguishing himself attending Volksschule, Wienand fils was sent in 1941 to the normal schools in Bad Godesberg and Xanten. He performed military service in the Second World War in a penal battalion^[3] and was severely wounded. He suffered a head injury and a dislocated shoulder ; he also needed a leg amputated. He thus qualified as a "70% casualty".

He was widowed twice, and (step)father to five children. One son of his first wife died in an accident.^[3] In 1975, he became director of the Bonner "Gesellschaft für kosmetische plastische Chirurgie und Ästhetik mbH Klinik International".^[4]

Party work

Wienand applied to enter the Nazi party on 9 October 1943, and would be enrolled on 20 April 1944 (as member #10.014.358).^[5]^[6] In 1947, Wienand attached himself to the SPD. In 1950, he was selected as SPD block captain (German: Unterbezirk) for the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. Already by 1951 he had advanced to the Mittelrhein committee (German: Bezirk) and by 1955 the central party council (German: Parteirat). In 1990, he resigned from politics. In 2002, he left the SPD, anticipating a censure motion (German: Parteiausschluss).

Per Herbert Wehner, Wienand is a "Mann für heikle Fälle [man with a deft touch]". In the view of the historian Arnulf Baring, he belongs "zum sozialliberalen Kernbereich, zur Handvoll ihrer wichtigsten Figuren [to the central core of social liberalism, the most important handful of figures]".^[7]

Legislative work

Following the 1953 German legislative election, Karl Wienand at the age of 26 became the youngest representative in the second German Bundestag. From 15 November 1963 to 13 April 1967 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag's committee on defense. From 3 March 1964 to 27 April 1967 he headed the SPD's parliamentary working group on national security. From 7 March 1967 to 30 August 1974, Wienand was Chief Whip. His time in the Bundestag lapsed beginning 3 December 1974.

Honors

1952: Bürgermeister of Rosbach in Windeck

Scandals and aftermath

Wienand was ensnared in a series of political scandals, and has been convicted multiple times.

Paninternational

In the Paninternational Flight 112 disaster on 6 September 1971, 22 people died on during an emergency landing on the autobahn outside Hamburg. Wienand, in return for roughly 162,500 Deutsche Marken, had allegedly shielded the airline from the inspection of the Federal Aviation Office. A parliamentary inquiry on the issue but could not reach any firm conclusions due to partisanship.^[8]

Vote of no confidence

In a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, Wienand supposedly paid the CDU representative Julius Steiner 50,000 DM to abstain, the "Steiner-Wienand affair". As much was admitted in a 1973 press conference following Steiner's second resignation from the Bundestag. Later it was revealed that Steiner had obtained 50,000 DM from the MfS; whether he had been paid twice is unclear.

Tax evasion

In 1973, Wienand was stripped of his immunity as a Bundestag member following tax evasion. In 1975 he is believed to have owed altogether 102,000 DM in taxes – not to mention taxes on the moneys from Paninternational.

Espionage

In 1993, federal prosecutors at the Federal Prosecutor's Office encountered a description of a covert agent in Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) records that placed them on Wienand's trail. Starting in June 1959, the MfS had managed Wienand as an possible unofficial collaborator (German: Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter (IM) Vorlauf) code-named "Streit". In 1971, he was accepted as a penetrative unofficial collaborator (German: IM mit besonderen Aufgaben) and renamed in the records as "Kontaktperson". In 1988, he was reregistered as an intelligence source.^[9] The prosecutors alleged proof that from 1970 to 1989 he had secretly worked with the MfS' HVA. The Düsseldorf regional court (German: Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf) deemed his punishable work to begin in 1976, as he previously had a protection for official speech; and sentenced him in 1996 on account of his espionage for the DDR to 2.5 years' time and financial penalties equivalent to the amount of funds Wienand had received from the MfS: 1 million DM. According to the memoirs of the HVA head Markus Wolf, Wienand had been in contact with DDR foreign agents since the end of the 1960s. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected Wienand's cassatory appeal on 28 November 1997,^[10] which was the final court of appeals for the Düsseldorfer jurisdiction. Thereafter German president Roman Herzog commuted his sentence to 5 years' probation on account of Wienand's heart disease.^[11]

Wienand denied the accusations unto his death.

Cologner funds affair

Wienand took millions in bribes for planning and construction of the Cologne waste incinerator (MVA). Allegedly, he was an accomplice to corruption, bribery, and tax evasion. In 2002, he spent three months in pre-trial detention (German: Untersuchungshaft), before the Cologne regional court (German: Oberlandesgericht Köln), on account of deteriorating health, let him instead provide sureties against flight (surrendering his passport and personal ID, as well as performing thrice-weekly check-ins at the local police station). These conditions were then lifted in August 2003 by the Cologne district court (German: Landgericht Köln). Because of his health, the investigation into Wienand could not remain open for long. On 14 December 2004, the district court sentenced Karl Wienand to two years' probation. The court considered it proven, that the 77‑y.o. had been guilty of aiding and abetting a corrupt breach of faith. Wienand's lawyer had admitted at the start of the trial, that he had received the amount of a million euros in connection with the Cologne MVA, but not the quantity of 2.1 million that the state's lawyer claimed. The BGH lifted a portion of the sentence in 2005, Wienand had already been acquitted of parts of it in the cologne district court.^[12]

Writings

"Der Partei oder dem Gewissen verpflichtet?" [Bound by party or conscience?]. Die Neue Gesellschaft (in German) (3): 366–371. 1970.

Citations

^ "Karl Wienand" in the Munzinger archive (database)
^ "Karl Wienand: 'Der Mann für heikle Fälle'" [Karl Wienand: The man with a deft touch] (in German). 13 June 2002. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Meyer (2006), Herbert Wehner, p. 381.
^ Matthias Korfmann (10 Oct 2011), "SPD-Politiker Karl Wienand ist tot [SPD Politician Karl Wienand Dead]" (in German). Der Westen.
^ Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/48510854
^ Gewalt, Helmut. "Angehörige des Bundestags / I. – X. Legislaturperiode ehemaliger NSDAP- & / oder Gliederungsmitgliedschaften" [Members of the Bundestags: I-X legislative sessions of the Nazis and their collaborators] (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
^ Quoted in Helmut Breuer (27 June 1996), "„Er war ein Verbündeter der DDR“ – Karl Wienand ist der erste deutsche Spitzenpolitiker, der des Landesverrats überführt wird [He was a DDR fellow-traveler: Karl Wienand is the first top German politico to have committed treason]". Die Welt.
^ Matthias Schmoock (30 August 2023), "Die Notlandung auf der Autobahn [The Emergency Landing on the autobahn]". Hamburger Abendblatt, p. 9.
^ BStU (2013), Der Deutsche Bundestag 1949 bis 1989 in den Akten des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (MfS) der DDR [The German Bundestag 1949–1989 through the files of the DDR's Ministry for State Security (MfS)] (report prepared for the German Bundestag under § 37(3) of the law on Stasi undertakings). Berlin: p. 243–. Archived November 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ Judgement on 28 November 1997, filed at 3 StR 114/97, BGH Dec. in Crim. Cases 43, 321.
^ Denkler, Thorsten (27 April 1999). "Spionage: Wienand begnadigt [Espionage: Wienand commuted]". Die Tageszeitung.
^ Schumacher, Martin, ed. (2006). "Wienand, Karl". M.d.B. – Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972 (PDF) (in German). Vol. Waas–Wynands. Berlin: Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. p. 1364. ISBN 3-7700-5224-2. urn:nbn:de:101:1-2014070812574. Retrieved 2017-06-19 – via KGParl Online-Publikationen.

External links

Literature by and about Karl Wienand in the German National Library catalogue
Dossier zu Karl Wienand at Spiegel Online

[1] "Karl Wienand" in the Munzinger archive (database)

[2] "Karl Wienand: 'Der Mann für heikle Fälle'" [Karl Wienand: The man with a deft touch] (in German). 13 June 2002. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2024.

[MHW-3] Meyer (2006), Herbert Wehner, p. 381.

[4] Matthias Korfmann (10 Oct 2011), "SPD-Politiker Karl Wienand ist tot [SPD Politician Karl Wienand Dead]" (in German). Der Westen.

[5] Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/48510854

[6] Gewalt, Helmut. "Angehörige des Bundestags / I. – X. Legislaturperiode ehemaliger NSDAP- & / oder Gliederungsmitgliedschaften" [Members of the Bundestags: I-X legislative sessions of the Nazis and their collaborators] (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2011.

[7] Quoted in Helmut Breuer (27 June 1996), "„Er war ein Verbündeter der DDR“ – Karl Wienand ist der erste deutsche Spitzenpolitiker, der des Landesverrats überführt wird [He was a DDR fellow-traveler: Karl Wienand is the first top German politico to have committed treason]". Die Welt.

[8] Matthias Schmoock (30 August 2023), "Die Notlandung auf der Autobahn [The Emergency Landing on the autobahn]". Hamburger Abendblatt, p. 9.

[9] BStU (2013), Der Deutsche Bundestag 1949 bis 1989 in den Akten des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (MfS) der DDR [The German Bundestag 1949–1989 through the files of the DDR's Ministry for State Security (MfS)] (report prepared for the German Bundestag under § 37(3) of the law on Stasi undertakings). Berlin: p. 243–. Archived November 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[10] Judgement on 28 November 1997, filed at 3 StR 114/97, BGH Dec. in Crim. Cases 43, 321.

[11] Denkler, Thorsten (27 April 1999). "Spionage: Wienand begnadigt [Espionage: Wienand commuted]". Die Tageszeitung.

[12] Schumacher, Martin, ed. (2006). "Wienand, Karl". M.d.B. – Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972 (PDF) (in German). Vol. Waas–Wynands. Berlin: Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. p. 1364. ISBN 3-7700-5224-2. urn:nbn:de:101:1-2014070812574. Retrieved 2017-06-19 – via KGParl Online-Publikationen.

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 [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F042669-0036, Bonn, Sitzung des SPD Präsidiums.jpg|thumb|Wienand (left) together with [[Helmut Schmidt]] (1974)]]
-'''Karl Wienand''' (born 15 December 1926 in [[Lindenpütz]]; died 10 October 2011 in [[Trier]]<ref>"[https://www.munzinger.de/document/00000006192 Karl Wienand]" in the [[Munzinger archive]] (database)</ref>) was a [[German people|German]] [[politician]] of the [[Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|Social Democratic Party]]&nbsp;(SPD) and secret agent for the [[East Germany|DDR]]'s [[Stasi|Ministry of State Security]]&nbsp;(MfS).
+'''Karl Wienand''' (born 15 December 1926 in [[Lindenpütz]]; died 10 October 2011 in [[Trier]]<ref>"[https://www.munzinger.de/document/00000006192 Karl Wienand]" in the [[Munzinger archive]] (database)</ref>) was a German politician of the [[Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|Social Democratic Party]]&nbsp;(SPD) and secret agent for the [[East Germany|DDR]]'s [[Stasi|Ministry of State Security]]&nbsp;(MfS).
 == Life ==
-Karl Wienand's father, a [[Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands|German communist party]] member, was frequently detained as an enemy of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.karriere.de/service/karl-wienand-der-mann-fuer-heikle-faelle-109887 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/20141202000127/http://www.karriere.de/service/karl-wienand-der-mann-fuer-heikle-faelle-109887 |title=Karl Wienand: 'Der Mann für heikle Fälle' |lang=de |trans-title=Karl Wienand: The man with a deft touch|date=13 June 2002}}</ref> and often demonstrated against [[Robert Ley]]. The Nazis would later kill the man.<ref name=MHW>Meyer (2006), ''Herbert Wehner'', p.&nbsp;381.</ref>
+Karl Wienand's father, a [[Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands|German communist party]] member, was frequently detained as an enemy of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.karriere.de/service/karl-wienand-der-mann-fuer-heikle-faelle-109887 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202000127/http://www.karriere.de/service/karl-wienand-der-mann-fuer-heikle-faelle-109887 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 December 2014 |title=Karl Wienand: 'Der Mann für heikle Fälle' |language=de |trans-title=Karl Wienand: The man with a deft touch |date=13 June 2002 |access-date=24 June 2024 }}</ref> and often demonstrated against [[Robert Ley]]. The Nazis would later kill the man.<ref name=MHW>Meyer (2006), ''Herbert Wehner'', p.&nbsp;381.</ref>
-After distinguishing himself attending [[Volksschule]], Wienand ''fils'' was sent in 1941 to the [[normal school]]s in [[Bad Godesberg]] and [[Xanten]]. He performed military service in the [[Second World War]] in a [[penal battalion]]<ref name=MHW/> and was severely wounded.  He suffered a head injury and a dislocated shoulder <!--??? de: "Spatenhieb in den Arm"-->; he also needed a leg amputated. He thus qualified as a "70% [[casualty (person)|casualty]]".
+After distinguishing himself attending [[Volksschule]], Wienand ''fils'' was sent in 1941 to the normal schools in [[Bad Godesberg]] and [[Xanten]]. He performed military service in the [[Second World War]] in a [[penal battalion]]<ref name=MHW/> and was severely wounded.  He suffered a head injury and a dislocated shoulder <!--??? de: "Spatenhieb in den Arm"-->; he also needed a leg amputated. He thus qualified as a "70% [[casualty (person)|casualty]]".
-He was widowed twice, and (step)father to five children.  One son of his first wife died in a accident.<ref name=MHW/> In 1975, he became director of the [[Bonn|Bonner]] "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Gesellschaft für kosmetische plastische Chirurgie und Ästhetik [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|mbH]] Klinik International}}".<ref>Matthias Korfmann (10 Oct 2011), "[http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/politik/Karl-Wienand-ist-tot-id5150010.html SPD-Politiker Karl Wienand ist tot] [SPD Politician Karl Wienand Dead]" (in German).  ''Der Westen''.</ref>
+He was widowed twice, and (step)father to five children.  One son of his first wife died in an accident.<ref name=MHW/> In 1975, he became director of the [[Bonn]]er "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Gesellschaft für kosmetische plastische Chirurgie und Ästhetik [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|mbH]] Klinik International}}".<ref>Matthias Korfmann (10 Oct 2011), "[http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/politik/Karl-Wienand-ist-tot-id5150010.html SPD-Politiker Karl Wienand ist tot] [SPD Politician Karl Wienand Dead]" (in German).  ''Der Westen''.</ref>
 == Party work ==
-Wienand applied to enter the [[Nazi party]] on 9 October 1943, and would be enrolled on 20 April 1944 (as member #10.014.358).<ref>[[Bundesarchiv]] R 9361-IX KARTEI/48510854</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Helmut|last=Gewalt|title=Angehörige des Bundestags / I. - X. Legislaturperiode ehemaliger NSDAP- & / oder Gliederungsmitgliedschaften|lang=de|trans-title=Members of the Bundestags: I-X legislative sessions of the Nazis and their collaborators |url=http://www.niqel.de/bredel/news/mdb.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.com/20160103123739/http://www.niqel.de/bredel/news/mdb.pdf|access-date=19 November 2011}}</ref> In 1947, Wienand attached himself to the SPD.  In 1950, he was selected as SPD [[block captain]] ({{lang-de|[[:de:Unterbezirk|Unterbezirk]]}}) for the [[Rhein-Sieg-Kreis]].  Already by 1951 he had advanced to the [[Mittelrhein]] committee ({{lang-de|links=no|Bezirk}}) and by 1955 the central party council ({{lang-de|links=no|[[:de:Parteirat|Parteirat]]}}). In 1990, he resigned from politics.  In 2002, he left the SPD, anticipating a censure motion ({{lang-de|links=no|[[:de:Parteiausschluss|Parteiausschluss]]}}).
+Wienand applied to enter the [[Nazi party]] on 9 October 1943, and would be enrolled on 20 April 1944 (as member #10.014.358).<ref>[[Bundesarchiv]] R 9361-IX KARTEI/48510854</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Helmut|last=Gewalt|title=Angehörige des Bundestags / I. – X. Legislaturperiode ehemaliger NSDAP- & / oder Gliederungsmitgliedschaften|language=de|trans-title=Members of the Bundestags: I-X legislative sessions of the Nazis and their collaborators|url=http://www.niqel.de/bredel/news/mdb.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103123739/http://www.niqel.de/bredel/news/mdb.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2016|access-date=19 November 2011}}</ref> In 1947, Wienand attached himself to the SPD.  In 1950, he was selected as SPD [[block captain]] ({{langx|de|[[:de:Unterbezirk|Unterbezirk]]}}) for the [[Rhein-Sieg-Kreis]].  Already by 1951 he had advanced to the [[Middle Rhine|Mittelrhein]] committee ({{langx|de|links=no|Bezirk}}) and by 1955 the central party council ({{langx|de|links=no|[[:de:Parteirat|Parteirat]]}}). In 1990, he resigned from politics.  In 2002, he left the SPD, anticipating a censure motion ({{langx|de|links=no|[[:de:Parteiausschluss|Parteiausschluss]]}}).
-Per [[Herbert Wehner]], Wienand is a "Mann für heikle Fälle [man with a deft touch]". In the view of the historian [[Arnulf Baring]], he belongs "zum sozialliberalen Kernbereich, zur Handvoll ihrer wichtigsten Figuren [to the central core of social liberalism, the most important handful of figures]".<ref>Quoted in Helmut Breuer (27 June 1996), "[https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article649742/Er-war-ein-Verbuendeter-der-DDR.html „Er war ein Verbündeter der DDR“ – Karl Wienand ist der erste deutsche Spitzenpolitiker, der des Landesverrats überführt wird] [He was a DDR fellow-traveler: Karl Wienand is the first top German politico to have committed treason]".  ''[[Die Welt]]''.  </ref>
+Per [[Herbert Wehner]], Wienand is a "Mann für heikle Fälle [man with a deft touch]". In the view of the historian [[Arnulf Baring]], he belongs "zum sozialliberalen Kernbereich, zur Handvoll ihrer wichtigsten Figuren [to the central core of social liberalism, the most important handful of figures]".<ref>Quoted in Helmut Breuer (27 June 1996), "[https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article649742/Er-war-ein-Verbuendeter-der-DDR.html „Er war ein Verbündeter der DDR“ – Karl Wienand ist der erste deutsche Spitzenpolitiker, der des Landesverrats überführt wird] [He was a DDR fellow-traveler: Karl Wienand is the first top German politico to have committed treason]".  ''[[Die Welt]]''.</ref>
 == Legislative work<!--original German is closer to "representative/delegative work", but we don't think about our legislators that way in English--> ==
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 == Scandals and aftermath ==
 Wienand was ensnared in a series of [[political scandals]], and has been convicted multiple times.
 === Paninternational ===
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 === Vote of no confidence ===
 In a [[vote of no confidence]] against [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] in 1972, Wienand supposedly paid the [[Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands|CDU]] representative [[Julius Steiner (politician)|Julius Steiner]] 50,000&nbsp;[[Deutsche Mark|DM]] to abstain, the "[[Steiner-Wienand affair]]". As much was admitted in a 1973 press conference following Steiner's second resignation from the Bundestag.  Later it was revealed that Steiner had obtained 50,000&nbsp;DM from the MfS; whether he had been paid twice is unclear.
 === Tax evasion ===
-In 1973, Wienand was stripped of his [[legislative immunity|immunity]] as a [[Member of the German Bundestag |Bundestag member]] following [[tax evasion]].  In 1975 he is believed to have owed altogether 102,000&nbsp;DM in taxes – not to mention taxes on the moneys from Paninternational.
+In 1973, Wienand was stripped of his [[legislative immunity|immunity]] as a [[Member of the German Bundestag|Bundestag member]] following [[tax evasion]].  In 1975 he is believed to have owed altogether 102,000&nbsp;DM in taxes – not to mention taxes on the moneys from Paninternational.
 === Espionage ===
-In 1993, federal prosecutors at the [[Public Prosecutor General (Germany)|Federal Prosecutor's Office]] encountered a description of a [[covert agent]] in [[Main Directorate for Reconnaissance]]&nbsp;(HVA) records that placed them on Wienand's trail.  Starting in June 1959, the MfS had managed Wienand as an possible [[unofficial collaborator]] ({{lang-de|Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter&nbsp;(IM) Vorlauf}}) code-named "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Streit}}".   In 1971, he was accepted as a penetrative unofficial collaborator ({{lang-de|links=no|IM mit besonderen Aufgaben}}) and renamed in the records as "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Kontaktperson}}".  In 1988, he was reregistered as an intelligence source.<ref>[[Stasi Records Agency|BStU]] (2013), ''[http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45329705_kw24_gutachten/gutachten.pdf Der Deutsche Bundestag 1949 bis 1989 in den Akten des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit&nbsp;(MfS) der DDR] [The German Bundestag 1949-1989 through the files of the DDR's Ministry for State Security&nbsp;(MfS)]'' (report prepared for the German Bundestag under §&nbsp;37(3) of the law on Stasi undertakings).  Berlin: p.&nbsp;243&ndash;. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/20131108051602/http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45329705_kw24_gutachten/gutachten.pdf}}</ref>  The prosecutors alleged proof that from 1970 to 1989 he had secretly worked with the MfS' HVA.  The D&uuml;sseldorf regional court ({{lang-de|links=no|[[:de:Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf|Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf]]}}) deemed his punishable work to begin in 1976, as he previously had a protection for official speech; and sentenced him in 1996 on account of his espionage for the DDR to 2.5 years' time and financial penalties equivalent to the amount of funds Wienand had received from the MfS: 1&nbsp;million&nbsp;DM.  According to the memoirs of the HVA head [[Markus Wolf]], Wienand had been in contact with DDR foreign agents since the end of the 1960s.  The [[Bundesgerichtshof|Federal Court of Justice]]&nbsp;(BGH) rejected Wienand's [[cassation|cassatory appeal]] on 28 November 1997,<ref>Judgement on 28 November 1997, filed at [http://www.hrr-strafrecht.de/hrr/3/97/3-114-97.php3 3 StR 114/97], ''[[:de:Entscheidungen des Bundesgerichtshofs in Strafsachen|BGH Dec. in Crim. Cases]]'' 43, 321.</ref> which was the final court of appeals for the Düsseldorfer jurisdiction. Thereafter [[German president]] [[Roman Herzog]] [[pardon power|commuted]] his sentence to 5 years' probation on account of Wienand's heart disease.<ref>Denkler, Thorsten (27 April 1999).  "[https://taz.de/!1291365/ Spionage: Wienand begnadigt] [Espionage: Wienand commuted]".  ''[[Die Tageszeitung]]''.</ref>
+In 1993, federal prosecutors at the [[Public Prosecutor General (Germany)|Federal Prosecutor's Office]] encountered a description of a [[covert agent]] in [[Main Directorate for Reconnaissance]]&nbsp;(HVA) records that placed them on Wienand's trail.  Starting in June 1959, the MfS had managed Wienand as an possible [[unofficial collaborator]] ({{langx|de|link=no|Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter&nbsp;(IM) Vorlauf}}) code-named "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Streit}}".   In 1971, he was accepted as a penetrative unofficial collaborator ({{langx|de|links=no|IM mit besonderen Aufgaben}}) and renamed in the records as "{{lang|de|italics=unset|Kontaktperson}}".  In 1988, he was reregistered as an intelligence source.<ref>[[Stasi Records Agency|BStU]] (2013), ''[http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45329705_kw24_gutachten/gutachten.pdf Der Deutsche Bundestag 1949 bis 1989 in den Akten des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit&nbsp;(MfS) der DDR] [The German Bundestag 1949–1989 through the files of the DDR's Ministry for State Security&nbsp;(MfS)]'' (report prepared for the German Bundestag under §&nbsp;37(3) of the law on Stasi undertakings).  Berlin: p.&nbsp;243&ndash;. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/20131108051602/http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45329705_kw24_gutachten/gutachten.pdf|date=November 8, 2013}}</ref>  The prosecutors alleged proof that from 1970 to 1989 he had secretly worked with the MfS' HVA.  The Düsseldorf regional court ({{langx|de|links=no|[[:de:Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf|Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf]]}}) deemed his punishable work to begin in 1976, as he previously had a protection for official speech; and sentenced him in 1996 on account of his espionage for the DDR to 2.5 years' time and financial penalties equivalent to the amount of funds Wienand had received from the MfS: 1&nbsp;million&nbsp;DM.  According to the memoirs of the HVA head [[Markus Wolf]], Wienand had been in contact with DDR foreign agents since the end of the 1960s.  The [[Bundesgerichtshof|Federal Court of Justice]]&nbsp;(BGH) rejected Wienand's [[cassation|cassatory appeal]] on 28 November 1997,<ref>Judgement on 28 November 1997, filed at [http://www.hrr-strafrecht.de/hrr/3/97/3-114-97.php3 3 StR 114/97], ''[[:de:Entscheidungen des Bundesgerichtshofs in Strafsachen|BGH Dec. in Crim. Cases]]'' 43, 321.</ref> which was the final court of appeals for the Düsseldorfer jurisdiction. Thereafter [[German president]] [[Roman Herzog]] [[pardon power|commuted]] his sentence to 5 years' probation on account of Wienand's heart disease.<ref>Denkler, Thorsten (27 April 1999).  "[https://taz.de/!1291365/ Spionage: Wienand begnadigt] [Espionage: Wienand commuted]".  ''[[Die Tageszeitung]]''.</ref>
 Wienand denied the accusations unto his death.
 === Cologner funds affair ===
-Wienand took millions in [[bribes]] for planning and construction of the Cologne waste incinerator&nbsp;(MVA).  Allegedly, he was an accomplice to corruption, bribery, and tax evasion.  In 2002, he spent three months in [[pre-trial detention]] ({{lang-de|[[:de:Untersuchungshaft (Deutschland)|Untersuchungshaft]]}}), before the [[Oberlandesgericht Köln|Cologne regional court]] ({{lang-de|links=no|Oberlandesgericht Köln}}), on account of deteriorating health, let him instead provide sureties against flight (surrendering his [[passport]] and [[personal ID]], as well as performing thrice-weekly check-ins at the local police station).  These conditions were then lifted in August 2003 by the Cologne district court ({{lang-de|links=no|[[:de:Landgericht Köln|Landgericht Köln]]}}).  Because of his health, the investigation into Wienand could not remain open for long.  On 14 December 2004, the district court sentenced Karl Wienand to two years' probation.  The court considered it proven, that the 77{{nbh}}y.o. had been guilty of aiding and abetting a corrupt breach of faith.  Wienand's lawyer had admitted at the start of the trial, that he had received the amount of a million euros in connection with the Cologne MVA, but not the quantity of 2.1&nbsp;million that the state's lawyer claimed.  The BGH lifted a portion of the sentence in 2005, Wienand had already been acquitted of parts of it in the cologne district court.<ref>{{cite dictionary|isbn=3-7700-5224-2<!--|isbn=9783000207037???; [[:de:Vorlage:BibISBN/9783000207037]] lists a second isbn-->|editor-first=Martin|editor-last=Schumacher|editor-link=Martin Schumacher (historian)|dictionary=M.d.B. – Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972|lang=de|trans-title=MPs: The people's representatives 1946-1972|publisher=Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien|volume=Waas-Wynands|location=Berlin|year=2006|via=KGParl Online-Publikationen|url=http://www.kgparl.de/online-volksvertretung/pdf/mdb-W.pdf |id=urn:nbn:de:101:1-2014070812574|access-date=2017-06-19|entry=Wienand, Karl |p=1364}}</ref>
+Wienand took millions in [[bribes]] for planning and construction of the Cologne waste incinerator&nbsp;(MVA).  Allegedly, he was an accomplice to corruption, bribery, and tax evasion.  In 2002, he spent three months in [[pre-trial detention]] ({{langx|de|[[:de:Untersuchungshaft (Deutschland)|Untersuchungshaft]]}}), before the [[Oberlandesgericht Köln|Cologne regional court]] ({{langx|de|links=no|Oberlandesgericht Köln}}), on account of deteriorating health, let him instead provide sureties against flight (surrendering his passport and [[personal ID]], as well as performing thrice-weekly check-ins at the local police station).  These conditions were then lifted in August 2003 by the Cologne district court ({{langx|de|links=no|[[:de:Landgericht Köln|Landgericht Köln]]}}).  Because of his health, the investigation into Wienand could not remain open for long.  On 14 December 2004, the district court sentenced Karl Wienand to two years' probation.  The court considered it proven, that the 77{{nbh}}y.o. had been guilty of aiding and abetting a corrupt breach of faith.  Wienand's lawyer had admitted at the start of the trial, that he had received the amount of a million euros in connection with the Cologne MVA, but not the quantity of 2.1&nbsp;million that the state's lawyer claimed.  The BGH lifted a portion of the sentence in 2005, Wienand had already been acquitted of parts of it in the cologne district court.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|isbn=3-7700-5224-2<!--|isbn=9783000207037???; [[:de:Vorlage:BibISBN/9783000207037]] lists a second isbn-->|editor-first=Martin|editor-last=Schumacher|editor-link=Martin Schumacher (historian)|dictionary=M.d.B. – Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972|lang=de|trans-title=MPs: The people's representatives 1946–1972|publisher=Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien|volume=Waas-Wynands|location=Berlin|year=2006|via=KGParl Online-Publikationen|url=http://www.kgparl.de/online-volksvertretung/pdf/mdb-W.pdf |id=urn:nbn:de:101:1-2014070812574|access-date=2017-06-19|entry=Wienand, Karl |page=1364}}</ref>
 == Writings ==
-* {{cite journal|title=Der Partei oder dem Gewissen verpflichtet?|lang=de|trans-title=Bound by party or conscience?|journal=Die Neue Gesellschaft|issue=3|year=1970|pp=366–371}}
+* {{cite journal|title=Der Partei oder dem Gewissen verpflichtet?|language=de|trans-title=Bound by party or conscience?|journal=Die Neue Gesellschaft|issue=3|year=1970|pages=366–371}}
 == Citations ==
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 == Further reading ==
 * [[Walter Henkels]] (1965), ''99 Bonner Köpfe [99 Bonner Heads]'', expanded edition.  Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, pp.&nbsp;269&ndash;.
-* {{cite book|author=Gerd Lotze|title=Karl Wienand. Der Drahtzieher|lang=de|trans-title=Karl Wienand: The puppetmaster|publisher=Egmont VGS|location=Cologne|year=1995|isbn=3-8025-1303-7}} ([https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/politik/rezension-sachbuch-oertchentermin-11298609.html Reviewed] in the [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]].)
+* {{cite book|author=Gerd Lotze|title=Karl Wienand. Der Drahtzieher|language=de|trans-title=Karl Wienand: The puppetmaster|publisher=Egmont VGS|location=Cologne|year=1995|isbn=3-8025-1303-7}} ([https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/politik/rezension-sachbuch-oertchentermin-11298609.html Reviewed] in the [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]].)
-* {{cite news|author=Jens Mühling|author-link=Jens Mühling|title=Unser Mann in Bonn|lang=de|trans-title=Our Man in Bonn|work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]]|date=2006-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214223250/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/unser-mann-in-bonn/722194.html}}
+* {{cite news|author=Jens Mühling|author-link=Jens Mühling|title=Unser Mann in Bonn|language=de|trans-title=Our Man in Bonn|work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]]|date=2006-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214223250/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/unser-mann-in-bonn/722194.html |archive-date=2022-02-14|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/unser-mann-in-bonn/722194.html}}
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 * {{DNB-Portal|119299925}}
 * [http://www.spiegel.de/thema/karl_wienand/ Dossier zu Karl Wienand] at [[Spiegel Online]]
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