Axel Henschke

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Axel Henschke (born May 15, 1952 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German former SED functionary and politician ( PDS , Die Linke ) and was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 2009 to 2014 . He was a full-time and later an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .

Life

From 1968 to 1971 Henschke completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a BMSR mechanic at the vocational school of the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost in Eisenhüttenstadt.

In 1971 he signed a handwritten commitment for ten years as a full-time employee at the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (MfS) in the district administration in Frankfurt (Oder). As a professional soldier, he was responsible for guarding GDR refugees in the MfS remand prison . Due to illness in 1972, Henschke's fitness level was lowered and the planned delegation to university studies by the State Security was no longer planned. Henschke asked for a release from the MfS and was released in August 1973.

From 1973 he worked as an air conditioning technician in the semiconductor plant in Frankfurt (Oder) before he was trained from 1975 to 1976 at the youth college of the Free German Youth (FDJ) at Lake Bogensee . Subsequently, until 1978 he held various full-time positions in the FDJ at the semiconductor factory and the FDJ district management in Frankfurt (Oder).

According to BStU documents, Henschke committed himself to an unofficial collaboration with the MfS as a social security employee (GMS) by handshake on March 24, 1977 . On March 29, 1978, Henschke made a handwritten commitment to work with the MfS as GMS and to penetrate the area of ​​responsibility under the code name "Ingo Köhler". The work as an unofficial employee ended because of the beginning of his activity as an SED party functionary.

From 1978 Henschke studied social sciences at the Karl Marx party college in Berlin and graduated in 1981 with a degree in social science . In 1984 he signed up again as an unofficial Stasi employee. Until 1989 he took on various full-time functions in the district management of the FDJ in Frankfurt (Oder). In 1990 he was first managing director of GBT GmbH at the semiconductor factory before he became unemployed in the same year. In 1991 he finally went into business for himself with a courier service and continued the business until 1996.

From 1994 to 2009 he worked as an employee of members of the state parliament and the Bundestag of his party.

Henschke is married and has two children.

politics

Henschke became a member of the SED in 1972 . From 1986 to 1989 he was a member of the district assembly in Frankfurt (Oder). Since 1998 he has been a member of the city council. In 2002 he ran for mayor there, unsuccessfully. In addition, he was deputy state chairman from 2003 to 2005 and has been a member of the state executive committee of his party since 2008.

In the state elections in Brandenburg on September 27, 2009, Henschke was directly elected to the state parliament in the state constituency of Frankfurt (Oder) . There he was a member of the Committee on Environment, Health and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Economics as well as the spokesman for urban development, building and housing policy of his group. After the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he left the state parliament.

literature

Web links

Commons : Axel Henschke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Stasi informers push for leftists into parliaments" Die Welt , September 24, 2009
  2. ↑ Hubertus Knabe : Resurrected from Ruins ( Memento from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), FAZ, December 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Mario Niemann:  Henschke, Axel . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  4. ↑ The Axel Henschke case (left)
  5. ↑ Stasi employees in the Brandenburg state parliament Six members of the Left Party were Stasi employees. Report of the Stasi investigation commission of the Brandenburg state parliament. , Konrad Adenauer Foundation, January 19, 2012
  6. ↑ Former Stasi prison guard wants to become mayor , Die Welt , November 26, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Henschke, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, politician (Die Linke), member of the state parliament in Brandenburg, employee of the state security
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)