Editing Stasi (section)

==Stasi officers after the reunification==

===Recruitment by Russian companies===
Former Stasi agent [[Matthias Warnig]] (codename "Arthur") is currently the head of [[Nord Stream AG|Nord Stream]].<ref name="kupchinsky">[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35128 Nord Stream, Matthias Warnig (codename "Arthur") and the Gazprom Lobby] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605020326/http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35128 |date=5 June 2011 }} ''Eurasia Daily Monitor'' Volume: 6 Issue: 114</ref> Investigations have revealed that some key [[Securing Energy for Europe|Gazprom Germania]] managers are former Stasi agents.<ref name=Stasi>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35034 Gazprom's Loyalists in Berlin and Brussels] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225183224/http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35034 |date=25 December 2010 }}. ''Eurasia Daily Monitor'' Volume: 6 Issue: 100. 26 May 2009</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.de/money/20080507-11753.html|title=Police investigate Gazprom executive's Stasi past|date=7 May 2008|access-date=18 March 2011|archive-date=19 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719093819/http://www.thelocal.de/money/20080507-11753.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Lobbying===
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Former Stasi officers continue to be politically active via the ''[[Gesellschaft zur Rechtlichen und Humanitären Unterstützung]]'' (GRH, Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support). Former high-ranking officers and employees of the Stasi, including the last Stasi director, Wolfgang Schwanitz, make up the majority of the organization's members, and it receives support from the [[German Communist Party]], among others.

The impetus for the establishment of the GRH was provided by the criminal charges filed against the Stasi in the early 1990s. The GRH, decrying the charges as "victor's justice", called for them to be dropped. Today the group provides an alternative if a somewhat utopian voice in the public debate on the GDR's legacy. It calls for the closure of the [[Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial]] and can be a vocal presence at memorial services and public events. In March 2006 in Berlin, GRH members disrupted a museum event; a political scandal ensued when the Berlin Senator (Minister) of Culture refused to confront them.<ref>''Berliner Morgenpost'' 16 March 2006. [http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article266203/Stasi_Offiziere_leugnen_den_Terror.html Stasi_Offiziere_leugnen_den_Terror]{{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194624/http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article266203/Stasi_Offiziere_leugnen_den_Terror.html |date=2 January 2014 }}</ref>

Behind the scenes, the GRH also lobbies people and institutions promoting opposing viewpoints. For example, in March 2006, the Berlin Senator for Education received a letter from a GRH member and former Stasi officer attacking the Museum for promoting "falsehoods, anti-communist agitation and psychological terror against minors".<ref>{{cite web |last=Backmann |first=Christa |url=http://morgenpost.berlin1.de/content/2006/03/25/berlin/818994.html|website=Berliner Morgenpost |date=25 March 2006 |title=Stasi-Anhänger schreiben an Bildungssenator Böger  |trans-title=Stasi supporters write to Education Senator Böger |access-date=2006-04-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710083042/http://morgenpost.berlin1.de/content/2006/03/25/berlin/818994.html |archive-date=10 July 2012}}</ref> Similar letters have also been received by schools organizing field trips to the museum.<ref>Schomaker, Gilbert. ''Die Welt'', 26 March 2006. [https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article205864/Ehemalige_Stasi_Kader_schreiben_Schulen_an.html Ehemalige Stasi-Kader schreiben Schulen an] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012211053/http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article205864/Ehemalige_Stasi_Kader_schreiben_Schulen_an.html |date=12 October 2008 }}</ref>