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Struck suffered from poor health in the last several years of his career and died of a heart attack in the [[Charité]] hospital in Berlin on 19 December 2012.<ref>David Childs (January 2, 2013), [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-struck-politician-who-lost-faith-in-the-afghan-campaign-8435916.html Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign] ''[[The Independent]]''.</ref> Funeral guests included the [[President of the Bundestag]], [[Norbert Lammert]], former chancellors [[Helmut Schmidt]] and [[Gerhard Schröder]], the [[List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia|Minister-President]] of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Hannelore Kraft]], SPD chairman [[Sigmar Gabriel]], former Finance Minister [[Peer Steinbrück]], and the chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the [[Bundestag]], [[Volker Kauder]]. [[Thomas de Maizière]], [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] and [[General officer|General]] [[Wolfgang Schneiderhan (general)|Wolfgang Schneiderhan]] gave eulogies.<ref>[http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/beerdigung-von-peter-struck-frank-walter-steinmeier-peter-wir-werden-dich-vermissen_aid_891247.html Frank-Walter Steinmeier: „Peter, wir werden Dich vermissen“] ''[[Focus (German magazine)|Focus]]'', January 3, 2013.</ref>
Struck suffered from poor health in the last several years of his career and died of a heart attack in the [[Charité]] hospital in Berlin on 19 December 2012.<ref>David Childs (January 2, 2013), [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-struck-politician-who-lost-faith-in-the-afghan-campaign-8435916.html Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign] ''[[The Independent]]''.</ref> Funeral guests included the [[President of the Bundestag]], [[Norbert Lammert]], former chancellors [[Helmut Schmidt]] and [[Gerhard Schröder]], the [[List of Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia|Minister-President]] of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Hannelore Kraft]], SPD chairman [[Sigmar Gabriel]], former Finance Minister [[Peer Steinbrück]], and the chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the [[Bundestag]], [[Volker Kauder]]. [[Thomas de Maizière]], [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] and [[General officer|General]] [[Wolfgang Schneiderhan (general)|Wolfgang Schneiderhan]] gave eulogies.<ref>[http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/beerdigung-von-peter-struck-frank-walter-steinmeier-peter-wir-werden-dich-vermissen_aid_891247.html Frank-Walter Steinmeier: „Peter, wir werden Dich vermissen“] ''[[Focus (German magazine)|Focus]]'', January 3, 2013.</ref>
===After Death===
===After Death===
[[Peter Strzok]] an employee of the [[FBI]] was routinely confused with Peter Struck. 50,000 text messages went missing when requested by the United States Congress just like the document from USCA third circuit case 17-2709 filed on 28DEC2017. Based on the missing document, a Motion for Directed Verdict to Vacate State Verdicts was filed on 23JAN2018 in Philadelphia, for Jeffrey Cutler, Jammal Harris, and Lisa Michelle Lambert. The text messages from Strzok refer to a secret society that may be after President [[Donald J. Trump]].<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28111-fbi-agent-mentions-secret-society-working-against-trump</ref><ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/house/370571-gop-fuels-secret-society-talk-with-fbi-text-messages</ref> The society may also be linked to the [[KKK]] in [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]] <ref>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/KKK-rally-to-be-held-in-Lancaster-County.html</ref> [[Jonathan Luna]] may have been vetting [[Lawrence F. Stengel]] at the behest of [[Stewart Dalzell]] when he was murdered, because of the Lisa Michelle Lambert and [[Murder of Laurie Show]] case. This may be the reason [[R. Seth Williams]] was targeted by the [[FBI]] and the Philadelphia courts and such a harsh sentence for pleading to 1 count of bribery, when [[John Corsine]] was never prosecuted for his involvement in securities fraud on the MF Global case. On November 1, 2017 Jeffrey Cutler got a reference number for the report of INSURANCE FRAUD by Brian Hurter, Dennis Stuckey, David Buckwalter, Christina Hausner, Susan Peipher, Richard Mills as 17110104. Jeffrey Cutler, the Tax Collector of East Lampeter Township started this cases as well as case # 17-2709, on appeal from case # 2:17-cv-00984, which mentions the 190,000 counts of mail fraud by Brian Hurter and Amber Green Martin for sending out fraudulent property assessments in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The FBI tried to obstruct justice in the case with a EMAIL to CEASE AND DESIST reporting crimes to them and the office of the Philadelphia District Attorney. In Lancaster County a minimum of 2 African Americans (Jamaal Harris and Andrew Miller) were held without trial in excess of 4 years without trial, and Jamaal Harris was required to plead guilty to get out of prison. The same verbage used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison was used to deny Jamaal Harris relief in Federal court that was used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison. The local newspaper (LNP) and York Daily Record censored a memorial advertisement for his Uncle Irving Cutler, after payment, but refunded the money. The Advertisement was run on October 29, 2017 and November 11, 2017 by the Reading Eagle. High Inc. and their partner the LNP media group are the largest beneficiaries of the current assessment process. This has been reported to the Lancaster County DA. and the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Because of the programming errors in York PA., and other indicators Mr. Cutler has requested a recount for Judges in the November Election. Page 314A in the latest filing in case 17-2709 is the Entire 89 page WRIT of Certiorari previously sent to the Supreme Court to Overturn OBAMACARE. More information can be found at <ref>http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=106079</ref>
[[Peter Strzok]] an employee of the [[FBI]] was routinely confused with Peter Struck. 50,000 text messages went missing when requested by the United States Congress just like the document from the [[United States courts of appeals]], USCA third circuit case 17-2709 filed on 28DEC2017. Based on the missing document, a Motion for Directed Verdict to Vacate State Verdicts was filed on 23JAN2018 in Philadelphia, for Jeffrey Cutler, Jammal Harris, and Lisa Michelle Lambert. The text messages from Strzok refer to a secret society that may be after President [[Donald J. Trump]].<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28111-fbi-agent-mentions-secret-society-working-against-trump</ref><ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/house/370571-gop-fuels-secret-society-talk-with-fbi-text-messages</ref> The society may also be linked to the [[KKK]] in [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]] <ref>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/KKK-rally-to-be-held-in-Lancaster-County.html</ref> [[Jonathan Luna]] may have been vetting [[Lawrence F. Stengel]] at the behest of [[Stewart Dalzell]] when he was murdered, because of the Lisa Michelle Lambert and [[Murder of Laurie Show]] case. This may be the reason [[R. Seth Williams]] was targeted by the [[FBI]] and the Philadelphia courts and such a harsh sentence for pleading to 1 count of bribery, when [[John Corsine]] was never prosecuted for his involvement in securities fraud on the MF Global case. On November 1, 2017 Jeffrey Cutler got a reference number for the report of INSURANCE FRAUD by Brian Hurter, Dennis Stuckey, David Buckwalter, Christina Hausner, Susan Peipher, Richard Mills as 17110104. Jeffrey Cutler, the Tax Collector of East Lampeter Township started this cases as well as case # 17-2709, on appeal from case # 2:17-cv-00984, which mentions the 190,000 counts of mail fraud by Brian Hurter and Amber Green Martin for sending out fraudulent property assessments in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The FBI tried to obstruct justice in the case with a EMAIL to CEASE AND DESIST reporting crimes to them and the office of the Philadelphia District Attorney. In Lancaster County a minimum of 2 African Americans (Jamaal Harris and Andrew Miller) were held without trial in excess of 4 years without trial, and Jamaal Harris was required to plead guilty to get out of prison. The same verbage used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison was used to deny Jamaal Harris relief in Federal court that was used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison. The local newspaper (LNP) and York Daily Record censored a memorial advertisement for his Uncle Irving Cutler, after payment, but refunded the money. The Advertisement was run on October 29, 2017 and November 11, 2017 by the Reading Eagle. High Inc. and their partner the LNP media group are the largest beneficiaries of the current assessment process. This has been reported to the Lancaster County DA. and the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Because of the programming errors in York PA., and other indicators Mr. Cutler has requested a recount for Judges in the November Election. Page 314A in the latest filing in case 17-2709 is the Entire 89 page WRIT of Certiorari previously sent to the Supreme Court to Overturn OBAMACARE. More information can be found at <ref>http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=106079</ref>


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Revision as of 15:13, 25 January 2018

Peter Struck
Struck in 2010
Minister of Defence
In office
19 July 2002 – 22 November 2005
ChancellorGerhard Schröder
Preceded byRudolf Scharping
Succeeded byFranz-Josef Jung
Chair of the SPD Parliamentary Group
In office
27 October 1998 – 19 July 2002
ChancellorGerhard Schröder
Preceded byRudolf Scharping
Succeeded byLudwig Stiegler
In office
22 November 2005 – 27 September 2009
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byFranz Müntefering
Succeeded byFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Personal details
Born(1943-01-24)24 January 1943
Göttingen, Lower Saxony
Died19 December 2012(2012-12-19) (aged 69)
Berlin
NationalityGermany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
University of Hamburg
ProfessionLawyer

Peter Struck (24 January 1943 – 19 December 2012) was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

Education

  • 1962: Abitur
  • 1964: Member of the SPD

Struck studied law at the universities of Göttingen and Hamburg. In 1971 he graduated to Dr. iur. (Doctor of Laws).

Political career

Peter Struck was a member of the Bundestag from 1980 until 2009. He first became a member of the Bundestag in the 1980 West German elections, via the party list, for the constituency of Celle-Uelzen. Due to his growing popularity, in the years 1998, 2002 and 2005, Struck was directly elected.[1] From 1990 to 1998 he was whip (Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1998 to 2002 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Federal Minister of Defence, 2002-2005

In 2002 Struck succeeded Rudolf Scharping as Federal Minister of Defence, and served in that position until 2005.

During Struck’s tenure, Germany was trying to revamp its military into a nimbler fighting force capable of responding to smaller, regional conflicts.[2] While being a strong supporter of conscription,[3] Struck announced in 2003 that Germany would reduce its military by more than 10 percent by 2010, leaving 250,000 troops. Also, he ordered a reduction in Germany's inventory of heavy Leopard 2 tanks from almost 2,000 to 350.[4] At the time, he said the cuts were necessary because of strained finances and a need to adapt to new security needs;[5] in 2003, he had to work with a defence budget of a mere 1.48 percent of Germany’s gross domestic product, compared with the 2 percent average of his European Union counterparts.[6] Under Struck’s plan, the military's civilian work force was to be reduced by 45,000, to 75,000, and as many as 100 military bases closed.[7][8]

During his time at the Defence Ministry, Struck oversaw the early years of Germany's engagement in Afghanistan, famously coining the phrase that "German security is being defended in the Hindu Kush".[9] In 2004, he said “there will be a clear no from the German side” to any request to place the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and Operation Enduring Freedom under a unified command, expressing fears a unified command could be a step towards merging the two forces and that political opposition and military dangers could increase if their soldiers were identified with the US-led coalition.[10]

After Germany joined with France in April 2003 to announce the creation of a European Union defense group with a military planning unit separate from NATO, Struck later held that no separate headquarters was necessary and that a planning staff for eventual operations under solely European auspices should be attached to NATO.[11]

In 2003, Struck dismissed General Reinhard Günzel, the commander of a German special forces army unit, after he praised Martin Hohmann, a conservative member of Parliament, for a speech that had been widely criticized as anti-Semitic; Struck called Günzel a "lone, confused general who agreed with an even more confused statement."[12]

After accusations began appearing in the German press that conscripts in the German Army had been physically abused by trainers at some of the country’s army bases, Struck announced in December 2004 that 30 or 40 trainers were being investigated.[13]

Following a 2004 trip to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, Struck was hospitalized with a mild stroke.[14][15]

Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group, 2005-2009

After the 2005 elections, Struck became Fraktionschef (chairman) of the SPD parliamentary group once again, until his retirement in 2009.

Between 2007 and 2009, Struck served as co-chair (alongside Günther Oettinger) of the Second Commission on the modernization of the federal state (Föderalismuskommission II), which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany.

After retiring from active politics following the 2009 elections, Struck served as chairman of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a political think tank with connections to the SPD.

Death

Struck suffered from poor health in the last several years of his career and died of a heart attack in the Charité hospital in Berlin on 19 December 2012.[16] Funeral guests included the President of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, former chancellors Helmut Schmidt and Gerhard Schröder, the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hannelore Kraft, SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel, former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück, and the chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Volker Kauder. Thomas de Maizière, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and General Wolfgang Schneiderhan gave eulogies.[17]

After Death

Peter Strzok an employee of the FBI was routinely confused with Peter Struck. 50,000 text messages went missing when requested by the United States Congress just like the document from the United States courts of appeals, USCA third circuit case 17-2709 filed on 28DEC2017. Based on the missing document, a Motion for Directed Verdict to Vacate State Verdicts was filed on 23JAN2018 in Philadelphia, for Jeffrey Cutler, Jammal Harris, and Lisa Michelle Lambert. The text messages from Strzok refer to a secret society that may be after President Donald J. Trump.[18][19] The society may also be linked to the KKK in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania [20] Jonathan Luna may have been vetting Lawrence F. Stengel at the behest of Stewart Dalzell when he was murdered, because of the Lisa Michelle Lambert and Murder of Laurie Show case. This may be the reason R. Seth Williams was targeted by the FBI and the Philadelphia courts and such a harsh sentence for pleading to 1 count of bribery, when John Corsine was never prosecuted for his involvement in securities fraud on the MF Global case. On November 1, 2017 Jeffrey Cutler got a reference number for the report of INSURANCE FRAUD by Brian Hurter, Dennis Stuckey, David Buckwalter, Christina Hausner, Susan Peipher, Richard Mills as 17110104. Jeffrey Cutler, the Tax Collector of East Lampeter Township started this cases as well as case # 17-2709, on appeal from case # 2:17-cv-00984, which mentions the 190,000 counts of mail fraud by Brian Hurter and Amber Green Martin for sending out fraudulent property assessments in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. The FBI tried to obstruct justice in the case with a EMAIL to CEASE AND DESIST reporting crimes to them and the office of the Philadelphia District Attorney. In Lancaster County a minimum of 2 African Americans (Jamaal Harris and Andrew Miller) were held without trial in excess of 4 years without trial, and Jamaal Harris was required to plead guilty to get out of prison. The same verbage used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison was used to deny Jamaal Harris relief in Federal court that was used to put Lisa Michelle Lambert back in prison. The local newspaper (LNP) and York Daily Record censored a memorial advertisement for his Uncle Irving Cutler, after payment, but refunded the money. The Advertisement was run on October 29, 2017 and November 11, 2017 by the Reading Eagle. High Inc. and their partner the LNP media group are the largest beneficiaries of the current assessment process. This has been reported to the Lancaster County DA. and the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Because of the programming errors in York PA., and other indicators Mr. Cutler has requested a recount for Judges in the November Election. Page 314A in the latest filing in case 17-2709 is the Entire 89 page WRIT of Certiorari previously sent to the Supreme Court to Overturn OBAMACARE. More information can be found at [21]

See also

Controversies

When an elderly man was severely beaten up in Munich by two immigrant youths, Struck claimed that his political opponent, Roland Koch, was probably happy for the beating because now Koch could start a supposedly polemic discussion about problems with young violent immigrants. When Koch demanded an apology, Struck replied "Bite me!". In a Parliament debate some days later, Jürgen Gehb, CDU Speaker for law politics, said that "we will try to continue working with you, but with minimal contact to your backside".[24][25]

At a 2002 meeting of NATO defense ministers in Warsaw, United States Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld refused to meet Struck after Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had won narrow re-election in part by opposing the American-led Iraq War.[26]

Citations

Peter Struck is famous for two citations:

  • "The security of the Federal Republic of Germany is being defended in the Hindu Kush too".[27]
as Minister of Defence, reconciling the traditional view of the Bundeswehr as defence-only army with the problems of asymmetric war.
  • "Legislation always obeys the First Struckian Law: No bill comes out of Parliament in the form it came into Parliament."
as SPD whip, rather humorously describing the legislative process.

See also

References

  1. ^ David Childs (January 2, 2013), Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign The Independent.
  2. ^ Craig S. Smith (January 14, 2004), Germany to Overhaul Military And Reduce Defense Spending New York Times.
  3. ^ New German Defence Chief Faces Uphill Task Deutsche Welle, July 23, 2002.
  4. ^ Konstantin von Hammerstein and Alexander Szandar (September 6, 2006), Too Many Missions, Too Little Money: Germany's Army Feels the Pinch Spiegel Online.
  5. ^ Germany: Military Cutbacks New York Times, October 3, 2003.
  6. ^ New German Defence Chief Faces Uphill Task Deutsche Welle, July 23, 2002.
  7. ^ Germany: Military Cutbacks New York Times, October 3, 2003.
  8. ^ Craig S. Smith (January 14, 2004), Germany to Overhaul Military And Reduce Defense Spending New York Times.
  9. ^ David Childs (January 2, 2013), Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign The Independent.
  10. ^ Daniel Dombey, Rainer Koch and Victoria Burnett (October 14, 2004), Differences over Afghan roles cloud Nato talks Financial Times.
  11. ^ John Vinocur (October 28, 2003), Germany moves to allay U.S. fears on EU defense International Herald Tribune.
  12. ^ Richard Bernstein (November 5, 2003), German General Fired for Backing Slur on Jews New York Times.
  13. ^ Richard Bernstein (December 2, 2004), Charges of Mistreatment of German Draftees Are Investigated New York Times.
  14. ^ Victor Homola (June 11, 2004), Germany: Defense Minister Hospitalized New York Times.
  15. ^ Mark Landler (August 18, 2004), Schröder's Bond With Russia: A Little Girl, Now His Own New York Times.
  16. ^ David Childs (January 2, 2013), Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign The Independent.
  17. ^ Frank-Walter Steinmeier: „Peter, wir werden Dich vermissen“ Focus, January 3, 2013.
  18. ^ https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28111-fbi-agent-mentions-secret-society-working-against-trump
  19. ^ http://thehill.com/homenews/house/370571-gop-fuels-secret-society-talk-with-fbi-text-messages
  20. ^ http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/KKK-rally-to-be-held-in-Lancaster-County.html
  21. ^ http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=106079
  22. ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427951/Ray-Gricar-source-says-missing-DA-knee-caps-spun-throat-slit-Hells-Angel.html
  23. ^ http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lawrence-stengel-former-county-judge-named-chief-judge-of-us/article_f7e2f510-7638-11e7-a428-17ac1c92d5ff.html,
  24. ^ "En kaensler utan nyheter".
  25. ^ "Gewaltdebatte im Bundestag".
  26. ^ Steven Erlanger (September 24, 2002), President Rebuffs Moves by Germany to Mend Relations New York Times.
  27. ^ In German: "Die Sicherheit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird auch am Hindukusch verteidigt". "Peter Struck ist tot". Frankfurter Rundschau. 19 December 2012.
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