Dieter Dangrieß
Dieter Dangrieß (born March 24, 1940 in Jahnshain ) is a former major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1988 to 1989 he was the district administration manager of the MfS in Gera .
Life
Dangrieß, son of a worker, went to the MfS after graduating from high school in 1958 and was hired in the district office in Glauchau . In the same year he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
In 1961/62 he completed a one-year course at the MfS University (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche . In 1965 he was transferred to Department II, responsible for counter-espionage . In 1966 he moved to the Guidance and Control Department of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district administration of the MfS.
From 1967 to 1972 Dangrieß completed a distance learning course at JHS and became a qualified lawyer . From 1973 he was head of the work group guidance and control in the MfS Karl-Marx-Stadt and from 1982 officer for special tasks and head of the staff, then deputy head of the district administration Karl-Marx-Stadt.
In 1987 Dangrieß received his doctorate and in 1988, as successor to Dieter Lehmann, head of the Gera district administration. During a meeting with the Minister for State Security on August 31, 1989 in Berlin, Erich Mielke asked : “Is it the case that June 17th will break out tomorrow ?” Colonel Dieter Dangrieß replied: “It won't be tomorrow, it won't take place, that's why we're there too. ”A few weeks later, on October 2, 1989, Dangrieß was appointed major general as the last colonel in the MfS. On December 7, 1989, he was released from his last position as head of the Office for National Security of the Gera district and replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Trostorff. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Dangrieß was dismissed from service in February 1990.
literature
- Jens Gieseke: Dieter Dangrieß . 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 ), p. 16
- Roger Engelmann (ed.) And others: Das MfS-Lexikon , 3rd updated edition, Berlin 2016, Ch. Links Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 69, online version on the website of the Federal Commissioner for the records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Gieseke: Dangrieß Dieter. In: MfS-Lexikon. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Armin Mitter, Stefan Wolle (ed.), I love you all ... Orders and situation reports from the MfS January-November 1989 , BasisDruck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-86163-001-X , p. 125
- ↑ Geraer security chief released from function . In: Junge Welt . 43rd volume, no. 289 A, December 8, 1989, ISSN 0323-8601 , p. 15 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dangrieß, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jahnshain |