Landesverrat

That Landesverrat is after German criminal law in § 94 StGB regulated . Landesverrat commits, who communicates a state secret to a strange power or one of its intermediaries or otherwise at an unauthorized one lets arrive or publicly announces, around the Federal Republic to disadvantage or a strange power favour, and by it causes the danger of a heavy disadvantage for the outside security of the Federal Republic of Germany. State secrets are in accordance with. § 93 StGB facts, articles or realizations, which are accessible only to a limited circle of acquaintances and must be kept secret before a strange power, in order to turn the danger away of a heavy disadvantage for the outside security of the Federal Republic of Germany. From this definition it follows that industrie and restaurant economics are not seized by the facts of the landesverrats. is the landesverrat after § 97a StGB in addition, if illegal secrets are passed on.

Among the landesverrat in the broader sense - in the penal code under the term "endangerment of outside security" in summary - to rank revealing state secrets (§ 95 StGB) is, nationaltraitorous espionage (§ 96 StGB) than preparatory act to the landesverrat, the relinquishment of state secrets and the nationaltraitorous falsification (§ 100a StGB). That Feeler gauge even can be already punished in the apron of the actual betrayal because of nationaltraitorous agent activity or because of secretofficial agent activity after §§ 98, 99 StGB.

In Switzerland the landesverrat under the title crime and passing is summarized against the state and the national defense. That landesverrat is diplomatic in the StGB, kind. to reread 267 as follows:"1. Who makes deliberately a secret, whose retaining is required for the well-being of the confederation, for a strange state or its agents well-known or accessible, who falsifies documents or evidence, which refer to legal relations between the confederation or a canton and a foreign state, destroyed, puts aside or steals and thus the interests of the confederation or the canton deliberately endangers, who leads negotiations with a foreign government as an authorized person of the confederation deliberately to disadvantages of the confederation, with penintentiary or with prison from one to five years one punishes "

See also

Arnim Paragraf, World stage process

Web on the left of

• Landesverrat and endangerment of outside security, §§ 93 - 101a StGB

Literature

• Gerhard Jungfer; Ingo Mueller: "70 years world stage judgement" in: New legal weekly revue (NJW), 2001, S. 3461-3465
• Ingo Mueller: "the famous case Ossietzky from the year 1930 could repeat itself at any time...", in: Quite law criticism, anniversary publication for Richard Schmid, hrsg. of Hans seriousness Boetcher, Nomos publishing house, Baden-Baden 1985, ISBN 3-7890-1092-8, S. 297-326

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