Eberhard Kopprasch

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Eberhard Kopprasch (born August 6, 1935 in Struppen ) is a German former working group leader of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1989/90 he was within the GDR's foreign intelligence service, the Headquarters Enlightenment (HVA), head of the “Internal Security of the HVA” working group.

Life

Kopprasch, the son of a boilermaker, learned to be an electrician after graduating from elementary school in Pirna . In 1952 he became secretary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) within his company and in March 1953 first secretary of the city management of the FDJ in Pirna.

In the same year he was hired by the Dresden district administration of the MfS and employed in the management and training department. In 1954 he was transferred to the Neubrandenburg district administration and in 1956 to Department XV, responsible for international espionage . In 1961 Kopprasch moved to the headquarters of the HVA in East Berlin and became an employee of Department III, responsible for “legally covered residences ”.

From 1966 to 1969 Kopprasch studied at the University of the MfS in Potsdam and became a qualified lawyer . In 1971 he moved to HVA Department XI, responsible for North America, and in 1978 to Department I, responsible for the "State Apparatus of the Federal Republic of Germany". During this time he was employed as the second secretary of the permanent representation of the GDR in Bonn. In 1980 he came to Division IX, responsible for counter-espionage, of which he became deputy head in 1987. In the same year he was promoted to colonel.

In 1989 Kopprasch became head of the security working group, responsible for the "internal security of the HVA". After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was released in 1990.

Kopprasch is a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support and lives in Berlin.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs : The three lives of Eberhard Lüttich In: Horch and Guck , Heft 55/2006.
  2. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Inofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security Part 2 - Instructions for working with agents, scouts and spies in the Federal Republic of Germany , Christoph Links Verlag , Berlin, September 8, 2010. ( online )
  3. ^ Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support: grH-Mitteilungen 8/15 - Congratulations on the 80th birthday , Berlin August 2015. ( online , accessed on February 14, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Kopprasch, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German working group leader in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Struppen