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The Guillaume case and the dispute over state security law. A lecture by Annette Weinke followed by a discussion with Kristina Meyer. The criminal proceedings against the Bonn Chancellery employee Günter Guillaume and his wife Christel, which began in 1975, are still one of the most famous and spectacular espionage trials in the old Federal Republic. Neither before nor after did an agent from the communist sphere of influence manage to penetrate so far into the inner circles of political power. In addition to the massive impact on Bonn government policy, the affair also influenced the relationship between politics, the judiciary, secret services and the public. The lecture places the affair in the history of German state security law and the resulting disputes between the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the security authorities. Annette Weinke teaches and researches as a professor of modern and contemporary history at the Historical Institute of @UniJena. She has been dealing with topics of German-German relations and contemporary legal history in the Cold War for many years. Dates of the next events: https://www.willy-brandt.de/aktuelles... The Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation online: Website: https://www.willy-brandt.de/ Newsletter: https://www.willy-brandt.de/newsletter/ Instagram: / bwbstiftung Facebook: / bundeskanzlerwillybrandtstiftung Mastodon: https://social.bund.de/@BWBStiftung Twitter: / bwbstiftung Soundcloud: / zeitgeschichteerleben Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3BNitkq... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast... #Espionage #Guillaume #Staatsschutz