Dirk Bachmann

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Dirk Bachmann (born March 13, 1948 ) is a former German police officer and was the last president of the East Berlin People's Police in 1990 .

Life

Bachmann began his service in the DVP as a police officer, held several functions in this branch and attended various technical colleges and universities. From 1977 to 1979 he studied at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in Moscow . For many years he was the head of the VP district office in Halle , where he already held the rank of colonel of the VP. He was then deputy to the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Halle (Saale) and head of the political department, then deputy to the head of the political administration of the Ministry of the Interior , before being replaced by Interior Minister Lothar Ahrendt on January 8, 1990, as successor to Friedhelm Rausch was used as President of the Berlin People's Police. He was a member of the SED until January 1990. He was one of the last six colonels of the VP, who were appointed major general on June 21, 1989 by Erich Honecker . From May 1, 1990, he had the rank of chief inspector . With the German reunification in October 1990 he was dismissed from the police force.

Bachmann is married and lives in Rehfelde .

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 224.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Times of January 10, 1990.
  2. ↑ Willi Hellmann: My first life. A VP general remembers. Verlag Das Neue Berlin 2001, p. 157.
  3. ↑ Freedom of January 22, 1986.
  4. ^ New Germany of June 22, 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last president of the East Berlin People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1948