Albert Schubert

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Albert Schubert (born August 11, 1923 in Groß Beuchow ) is a former major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . From 1957 to 1984 he was the head of the investigation department.

Life

Schubert was born in 1923 as the son of a farm laborer in Groß Beuchow ( Calau district ). After elementary school, he began an apprenticeship as a miller in 1938. In 1941 he was called up for military service in the Navy , where he last served as a mate on a training ship.

After the war he worked as a tile press in Boizenburg . He joined the SED in 1947 . After an interim employment as a woodworker, he joined the service of the People's Police at the Hagenow District Police Department, where in 1949 he was appointed head of Kommissariat 5 (political police).

From February 1950 Schubert worked for the Hagenow district office of the MfS before he took over the management of the Grevesmühlen district office in 1951 . In 1952 he was appointed head of Department V (state apparatus, culture, churches, underground) of the MfS district administration in Schwerin . This was followed in 1954 as Deputy Operational Head of the Schwerin District Administration and in 1956 in Rostock . In 1957, with the rank of lieutenant colonel , he was appointed head of main department VIII (observation / arrests) of the MfS in Berlin , which he then headed for 27 years. From 1963 to 1964 he attended the district party school "Friedrich Engels" in Berlin and from 1966 to 1968 he completed a distance learning course at the State Security Law School in Potsdam -Eiche. Schubert was promoted to colonel in 1965 and appointed major general of the state security on February 29, 1972 by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . In 1975 Schubert was promoted to Dr. jur. Stasi at the University Potsdam with a paper on the "grown security policy position of the operational observation in the overall system of the political-operative work of the Stasi" PhD . In 1981 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1984 he was released for health reasons. He was succeeded by Karli Coburger , and Schubert has lived in Berlin as a pensioner ever since.

After investigations by the Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe , Schubert was arrested on June 3, 1992. In December 1992, he was charged with incitement to collective attempted murder. The background was the failed attacks on Siegfried Schulze, who fled to the Federal Republic, and the commercial escape helper Julius Lampl. However, the proceedings against Schubert were dropped because they were unable to stand trial.

Schubert is a member of the historical revisionist Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support (GRH).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1972, p. 1.
  2. ↑ See PhDs at the Law School of the MfS ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mfs-outsider.de
  3. ↑ Cf. Roland Schißau: Criminal proceedings because of MfS injustice - The processes of the Federal German courts against former employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR , Berlin 2006, pp. 150–156.
  4. ↑ Eckhard Jesse : Facts and realizations, no myths and legends
  5. ↑ Hubertus Knabe : The perpetrators are among us. About the glossing over of the SED dictatorship. Berlin 2008, p. 304
  6. ↑ Congratulations on the 92nd birthday in grh-Mitteilungen No. 8/2015 (accessed on April 28, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubert, Erich Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, head of Department VIII of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Beuchow