Manfred Ebert (MfS employee)

Manfred Ebert (born April 24, 1930 in Lauterbach ; † December 14, 2016 in Berlin ) was a colonel and working group leader of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) in the Ministry for State Security (MfS), the foreign intelligence service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1980 to 1990 he was head of the HVA working group XV / BV, responsible for the guidance of departments XV (reconnaissance) of the MfS district administrations.

Life

After elementary school, Ebert attended a commercial school from 1944 to 1947 and learned the trade of a commercial clerk by 1952 . In 1948 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). After completing his training, he became district secretary of the Land and Forestry Union in Oelsnitz .

In 1952 Ebert was hired by the district office of the MfS in Oelsnitz, in the same year he moved to the district office in Berlin-Pankow . From 1954 he was an employee of the MfS Department IV of the Greater Berlin Administration , responsible for West Berlin . In 1956/57 Ebert completed a one-year course at the SED district party school in Berlin. In 1957 he moved to Department XV, where he was deputy head of department from 1965 to 1980.

From 1968 to 1974 Ebert completed a distance learning course at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche and became a qualified lawyer . In 1980 he became Head of Working Group XV / BV within the Headquarters Enlightenment (HVA), the foreign intelligence service of the GDR, responsible for the guidance of Departments XV of the MfS district administrations. In 1984 Ebert was made a colonel. After the reunification and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Ebert was dismissed from the service in 1990.

literature

• Jens Gieseke :  Manfred Ebert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. 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 )