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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0965-934X
- eISSN
- 1571-8131
- DOI
- 10.1163/157181301401748360
- Publisher site
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Abstract
[ ] KNAUTH v. GERMANY BESTER v. GERMANY Right to respect for private life – inadmissible Article 8 Civil servants dismissed for having collaborated with the Ministry of Security of the GDR and for having denied this On November a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights unani- mously declared inadmissible the applications in the cases of Knauth v. Germany and Bester v. Germany . Summary of the facts The two applicants, both former civil servants of the German Democratic Repub- lic (GDR), were integrated into the civil service of the Federal Republic of German (FRG) after the reunification of Germany. Both answered in the negative when asked in a questionnaire, prior to their integration, whether they had collaborated with the Ministry of Security of the GDR. An examination of the data contained in documents of the Ministry of Security revealed their past collaboration with that ministry. The first applicant, an infant school teacher, had been registered as a collaborator of the Ministry of Security between and . The second appli- cant had effected his military service in the People’s Army of the GDR between and and
Journal
Human Rights Case Digest – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001