Günter Ebert (MfS employee)

Günter Ebert (born April 19, 1937 in Magdeburg ) is a German , former colonel and department head of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1981 to 1989 he was head of the HVA department XV, responsible for defense technology in the aerospace industry.

Life

Ebert visited after the elementary school in 1952/53 a mining school in Eisleben and learned 1953-1955 the profession of smelter worker.

In 1955, however, he was employed full-time at the district office of the MfS in Hettstedt . In the same year he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Until 1957 he attended the school of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA), the foreign intelligence service of the GDR, in Belzig . From 1957 Ebert was employed in the HVA main department V, responsible for evaluation, in East Berlin .

From 1962 to 1966 Ebert studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and became a qualified criminalist . In 1971 he moved to the HVA department XV, responsible for defense technology in the aerospace industry. In 1980 he became its deputy head and in 1981, as successor to Gerhard Franke , head of department. 1985 Ebert was promoted to colonel. In the course of the turnaround and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Ebert was released from work in 1989 and dismissed from service in 1990.

literature

• Jens Gieseke :  Günter Ebert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jens Gieseke: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security (MfS manual) . BStU. Berlin 2012. ( Online )