Kurt Rebmann

Rebmann was born in 1924 in the southwestern town of Heilbronn and studied law from 1943 to 1950 at the University of Tübingen.^[1] Rebmann became Public Prosecutor General on 1 July 1977^[2] as the successor of Siegfried Buback who fell victim to an assassination by militants of the Red Army Faction (RAF).^[3] After with Hanns Martin Schleyer the president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, was sequestrated by RAF militants in September 1977, he was in favor of a retroactive implementation of the death penalty.^[4] In 1989, he was a leading force behind the implementation of a crown witness rule.^[5] He stayed in the post of a Public Prosecutor General until 1990.^[2]