Bruno Beater

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Bruno Beater (born February 5, 1914 in Berlin ; † April 9, 1982 in East Berlin ) was a German Colonel General and Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR .

Life

After elementary school, the laborer's son trained as a carpenter from 1928 to 1932 and became a bread-maker in 1933. In 1929 he became a member of the KJVD . In 1934 he was drawn to the RAD , after which he worked as a carpenter at Rheinmetall-Borsig from 1935 to 1939 . From 1936 to 1938 he did his military service. He did military service from 1939 until he defected to the Red Army as a sergeant major in July 1944 . There he became a front propagandist for the NKFD and worked as a scout in the Wroclaw pocket. He was a co-founder of the Association of German Officers . After the end of the war from May to October 1945, he was employed in the prisoner-of-war camp in Breslau- Hundsfeld as an instructor and leader of the anti- fascist group.

Grave of Bruno Beater in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin

post war period

He joined the KPD in 1945 , and when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge , he became a member of the SED . In 1945 he was employed in the newly created police force in the Soviet occupation zone and was appointed head of the Hennigsdorf criminal investigation department. From here he was appointed head of the Osthavelland district police force in Nauen and so came to the main administration in 1949 to protect the national economy that he was building up in Brandenburg. From this position in April 1950 he was appointed head of Department V (combating underground activity against the national economy) of the Greater Berlin administration of the new MfS , who then took on the position of Head of Department V at the headquarters of the in August of the same year MfS in Berlin followed. In 1953 the department was restructured into main department V. In 1955 he was appointed Deputy Minister for State Security and in October 1959 Major General. From 1962 to 1963 he attended the party college of the SED . On the VI. At the SED party congress in January 1963, he was elected candidate for the SED Central Committee. In 1964 he was promoted to succeed Otto Walter 1st Deputy Minister for State Security and in February 1965 to Lieutenant General. On October 2, 1973, at the 10th session of the SED Central Committee, he was elected a member of the SED Central Committee together with Egon Krenz . In February 1980 he was promoted to colonel general.

Honors

From the Law School of the MfS Eiche-Golm he was awarded the title Dipl.-Jur. awarded.

After his death the school of Main Department III of the MfS was named after him.

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in the DRAFD Wiki
  2. ↑ Thomas Auerbach , Matthias Braun, Bernd Eisenfeld , Gesine von Prittwitz, Clemens Vollnhals : Anatomie der Staatssicherheit , p. 8
  3. ^ Preliminary finding aid Secretariats of the Deputies of Minister Neiber, Mittig and Schwanitz in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
  4. ^ New Germany of January 22, 1963
  5. ^ Preliminary finding aid Secretariats of the Deputies of Minister Neiber, Mittig and Schwanitz in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
  6. ^ New Germany of October 3, 1973
  7. ^ Preliminary finding aid Secretariats of the Deputies of Minister Neiber, Mittig and Schwanitz in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
  8. ^ New Germany of February 11, 1964
  9. ^ New Germany of February 6, 1979
personal data
SURNAME Beater, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel General and Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1982
Place of death East Berlin