Editing Siegfried Buback (section)

== Life and career ==
Buback studied at the [[University of Leipzig]]. From 1940 to 1945, he was a member of the [[Nazi Party]], while serving as a soldier in [[World War II]]. From 1945 to 1947, he was a prisoner of war in [[France]]. In 1953 he became an attorney, and continued his career until 1972 as general attorney. 

His name first appeared in public in 1962 when he accused the political magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' of [[high treason]] in the [[Spiegel scandal|''Spiegel'' scandal]]. In 1966, the case lead to a groundbreaking ruling of the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany]] about the [[freedom of the press]].

In the 1970s he was decidedly opposed to the [[Red Army Faction]] (RAF) and became the first assassination victim, along with his driver Wolfgang Göbel and judicial officer Georg Wurster, in a series of events called the "[[German Autumn]]".