Balluseck: Fritz von Balluseck was bom in Potsdam on 7th September 1908. Full name - Friedrich Karl Hugo Viktor von Ballusek. He married Kathe von Ballusek & they had 3 children. He has two surviving daughters - the youngest is Christianna (now Christianna Weis about 50 years old). His other daughter is called Brigitte. His aunt was the FDP politician Elisabeth Liders. 1932: 1932: 1939: 1939: Dr. juris at Greifswald University. preussischer Referendar in Liegnitz Regierungsassessor in Liegnitz. Birth of daughter Brigitte. 1940: death of infant son in Krakow. 1948: Birth of daughter Christiane. 1955: (15 Dec) 11 year old Liselotte Hass' body found on wasteland. 1956: October - arrested after his diaries were found in his desk. 1957: May - trial - convicted for abuse of children. 6 yrs in prison. 1971. Released - returns to wife. 1989: Death in Berlin. Character (+ see photos) Descended from a noble family. (The family was elevated to nobility in 1892 - he gave a copy of the coat of arms to one of his relations). The papers describe his as the very picture of a cultivated man with pleasant manners. Well dressed. He went to Church on Simdays, and came home punctually from work. He was crippled (possibly a war wound). He was described as having a monotonous voice. Employment History Graduated as a Dr of law. During the war he was a German occupation officer in Krackow. His wife was with him there. One East German newspaper alleges that he abused Polish girls. After the war B. trained as a "katechet" or religious instructor. He taught religious instruction at a "Hilfschule" in Charlottenberg - a school for children vdth special needs. At the same time B. work as a senior civil servant/legal officer at the WBK, a lending institution for mortgages to build houses, (need to clarify position & dates) The WBK is now part of IBB - Investitionsbank Berlin-Brandenburg. It was while he was working here that secretaries stumbled upon Fritz's diaries (black bound business books, or accounting books) while they were looking for an important document. ; Paedophile history According to newspaper reports the B. abused children aged between 9 & 14 for 3 decades. One article refers to the abuse of hundreds of children, other cuttings range from 33 to 50 cases of illegal sex with children under 14; he was convicted for 23 cases of sexual crime. (We should get accurate date on Monday) One East German newspaper (Simon sending cutting) alleges that he abused Polish girls during his stint as a German Occupation Officer in Krackow. The implication is that he gave them the choice of the gas chamber or him. One newspapers refers to "hundreds" of children who were abused over the last 3 decades. Reports say he approached children during lessons, on the street, in front of shop windows & on public transport. He never used violence. He abused both boys and girls. The papers say he persuaded his 15 year old daughter, by means of constant discussions of sexual matters, to take up intimate relations with a 16 yr old pupil at a school for the educationally subnormal children, with whom he had previously himself attempted to have illegal sexual contact. Arrest A 12 year old girl Liselotte Hass was murdered in December 1955, in Charlottenberg. A year later (Oct 1956) B. was arrested after secretaries at the WBK, where he worked as a civil servant found 4 thick diaries in which B. had noted down his crimes which would make *even the most hardened criminal specialists blush'. The Stem newspaper describes the diaries as "an obscene diary, a pedantically kept list of conquests, detailing over 50 sexual crimes against children. B. was suspected of the murder of a 12 year old girl, Lisselotte Hass, whom he knew, but always claims he didn't murder her. But her name was found in his diary. He first got to know her under the name of Hannalore. According to his diary he met her at the beginning of March 1955, through another 10 year old girl; His diary says he agreed to meet the 2 girls in front of their school, but B. did not keep the appointment. B's mother happened to have an entry in her diary saying that he visited her that day. Trial F von B's trial was in May 1957. He was tried beforethe seventhgreat youth protection chamber in Moabit. The presiding Judge was Heinrich Berger (now dead) The Prosecutor was Dr Krause (dead or alive?) The Defence lawyers: Dr. Paul Ronge (dead) & Dr. Burchardt. At the time of the trial Balluseck was 48 years old. He admitted to the charges against him, apart from the murder of Liselotte. Sentence He was sentenced to 6 years in prison, followed by an undefined period in a hospital, and 5 years without civil rights. He was sentenced for 23 cases of sexual crime and procuring in one case. (We need to check this with Court archives on Monday). The judge commented on the unsettling silence of so many children. Evidence of contact with Kinsey According to the FAZ (22.5.57) Balluseck gave his notes a "pseudo-scientific' character (but did Kinsey show him how to do this?) and entered into a correspondence with the American Sexual researcher Kinsey, about his research results, which as he said himself, took place over 3 decades." According to the paper, Kinsey advised B. to "be careful". The paper suggests Kinsey was the only person to see through the mask of a respectable citizen who led a well ordered bourgeois life. An article in the Morgenpost (16.5.57) "Kinsey hatte Balluseck anzeigen..." tells how Balluseck abused the son of the local vicar (Keusch). The boy then had to write an account of his immoral activities, and Balluseck sent this information about the boy to Kinsey. Judge Berger says "I had the impressionthat you got to the children in order to impress Kinsey and to deliver him material" Balluseck's response is: "Kinsey himself asked me for that". Furtherevidence of B's pride is that he cut out the name Kinsey and pastedthe letters into his diary. In Gebhard's interview with JGH, Gebhard says that B. heard about K. and wrote to K, who encouraged him to send any datahe could. When the young girl was murdered, the police suspected B. and raided him - they found his correspondence with K. The FBI then visited K to come and demand the man's diaries, and correspondence, but K. refused. Shortly after K. died, Gebhard took over, and also refused to co-operate. Later on it was discovered he was not the murderer. He wrote again and saidhe would like to go on sending us material but would we payhim since he was now unemployable. In Gebhard's interview with Tim he again says that B. wrote to Kinsey, telling him he was a paedophile, asking him for information, and offering his case history. "Of course, Kinsey couldn't go to Germany to get it (presumably because of the war?) Buthe wrote him questions in the letter andtheycarried out quite a correspondence" Kinsey refused to co-operate with the FBI or Interpol. Although B. was discovered not to be the murderer "thepoor paedophile had his reputation destroyed and he couldn't find work and he finally quit corresponding". Prof. Remak confirms that he translated the diaries. He doesn't remember details, but says they were "set out like Kinsey wanted him to do it".
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