Dieter Winderlich

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Dieter Winderlich (born December 4, 1938 in Lüben ) is a former German police officer. From 1987 to 1990 he was Deputy Minister of the Interior (MdI) of the GDR and in 1990 the last head of the German People's Police .

Life

The son of a musician, who became a people's police officer in 1947, went to school in the GDR in Schköna , Frankleben and Kitzen from 1945 after he and his family were expelled from Guhlau in Lower Silesia. He finished his school days with an overall grade of "good". On September 1, 1953, after finishing school, he began an apprenticeship as an arc welder at VEB Leipziger Stahlbau und Verzinkerei in Leipzig-Plagwitz , which he was unable to complete. He learned the job of an educator and acquired a technical college degree as a lower level teacher via distance learning. In 1956 he began working as a youth hostel helper in the youth hostel "Thomas Müntzer" in Stolberg . From December 1956 he became head of the "Young Pioneer" youth hostel in Harzgerode . In spring 1961 he followed an appeal by the FDJ and, like his father, became a member of the DVP . He joined the SED and completed several years of study at the college of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. From 1970 to 1974 he acted as head of the Wriezen juvenile detention center in the Bad Freienwalde district . As Colonel of the VP, he was deputy head of the penal administration of the MdI from 1980 to 1987. In February 1987 he succeeded Günter Giel as Deputy Minister of the Interior (responsible for archives, the fire brigade, the penal system and the criminal police). In 1988 he was appointed major general by Erich Honecker .

On January 10, 1990, he was appointed head of the DVP by Interior Minister Lothar Ahrendt , making him the first deputy minister. He remained in this post until the change of government in April 1990, was reassessed by Major General to Chief Inspector on May 1, 1990 and appointed by Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel to head the department for federal-state cooperation in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Winderlich is a member of the initiative community for the protection of social rights .

Awards

Publications

  • From prison to the last chief of the People's Police: No ordinary officer career. edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-076-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the prison system to the last chief of the People's Police: No ordinary officer career. edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-076-3 , page 9
  2. ^ From the prison system to the last chief of the People's Police: No ordinary officer career. edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-076-3 , page 18
  3. ^ From the prison system to the last chief of the People's Police: No ordinary officer career. edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-076-3 , p. 20 ff.
  4. ^ New Germany of May 23, 2005
  5. ^ From the prison system to the last chief of the People's Police: No ordinary officer career. edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-076-3 , pages 22 f.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland , January 11, 1990, p. 2.
  7. ↑ "ISOR - current" number 6/2010
personal data
SURNAME Winderlich, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and chief of the GDR People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüben