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 the 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.
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