Dietrich Sperling

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Dietrich Sperling (born March 1, 1933 in Sagan / Silesia ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1978 to 1982 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development .

education and profession

After graduating from high school , Sperling studied law , economics and sociology in Göttingen and Berlin , which he completed in 1959 with the first state examination in law. Then he worked as a tutor at a Frankfurt student house until 1962 . In 1963 he switched to the DGB Federal Youth School in Oberursel as an educational assistant . From 1964 he was a lecturer at the Falkenstein home adult education center of the Adolf Reichwein Foundation . From 1965 to 1977 he was the head of this facility. In 1965 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the University of Göttingen with the work of economic councils in the European constitutional system .

family

Dietrich Sperling is married and has one child.

MP

From 1969 to 1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1969 and 1972, Sperling was elected to the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Obertaunuskreis and Hochtaunus and otherwise always through the state list of Hesse .

Public offices

On February 16, 1978 he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development in the federal government led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . After Helmut Kohl was elected Federal Chancellor, Sperling resigned from office on October 4, 1982.

Contact with the HVA of the GDR

Helmut Müller-Enbergs has in rosewood . A source review (2007) named Sperling as one of “at least ten” members of the German Bundestag who had been in direct contact with the GDR Ministry for State Security from 1969 to 1972 . So this is said to have worked as IM "bird" for the head office intelligence .

Karl-Heinz Baum confirms this and also states that the Stasi recorded information attributed to him 19 times, including “reactions to the Brezhnev visit” and “reactions of Herbert Wehner to the federal government's Ostpolitik” as well as “first internal reactions to the arrest of Günter Guillaume “, The spy in the Chancellery.

The Stasi noted in 2013: "The currently known acts tradition in turn allows only the conclusion that the HV A could obtain for a certain time information from Dietrich Sperling. How the connection between the HV A and Sperling was, whether he was skimmed off or deliberately disclosed information, cannot be determined. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Zeit 24/2009 of June 4, 2009: Spitzenquellen West , p. 44 and Helmut Müller-Enbergs: "Rosenholz" A source criticism. (PDF) bstu.de, 2007, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ See Netzeitung.de: Members of the Bundestag as Stasi informers ( memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , viewed on July 12, 2010.
  3. ^ Stasi and Bundestag. Frankfurter Hefte, 2007, Heft 5 ( Memento from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 191 kB)
  4. ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 231. ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
personal data
SURNAME Sperling, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagan , Silesia