Erhardt Hentschel

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Erhardt Hentschel (born November 8, 1920 ; † May 12, 2003 in Schwerin ) was a German police officer. He was major general and for many years head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Schwerin .

Life

Hentschel learned the profession of stone setter . As a soldier in the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and attended the Antifa School No. 2041 in Talitza together with the later major general of the penal system, Hans Tunnat .

In 1946 he became a member of the FDJ and the SED and a member of the DVP. He served in the VP districts in Crimmitschau , Neustadt and Bischofswerda , then went as an officer in the BDVP Halle and Magdeburg . From 1952 he was an employee or head of the DVP sector of the security department in the central committee of the SED . On August 30, 1955, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED decided to appoint Erhardt Hentschel and Anton Switalla as chief inspectors of the VP . From September 1955 to 1962 he was deputy head of the DVP for political work in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR in Berlin (successor to Herbert Grünstein ). In July 1957 he was reassessed to major general. Hentschel was replaced as political chief, demoted to lieutenant colonel and transferred to Schwerin as the first deputy to the head of the BDVP. As the successor to Erwin Rudnick , he was head of the BDVP Schwerin from 1965 to January 21, 1986. Initially again in the rank of colonel of the VP, he was reappointed major general on June 26, 1975 by the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker . At the same time he was a member of the SED district leadership and the Schwerin district assembly until 1986. In January 1986 he retired and lived in Schwerin. From February 1986 to 1989 he was a member of the SED District Party Control Commission in Schwerin.

Hentschel was a member of the initiative group for the protection of social rights and died at the age of 82.

Awards

  • 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1979 in silver and 1980 in gold
  • 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 136.
  • Torsten Diedrich, Rüdiger Wenzke (ed.): The camouflaged army: history of the barracked people's police in the GDR 1952 to 1956. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-242-5 , p. 111.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publication of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR Life and Struggle in the Service of the People , Volume 1, 1984, p. 212.
  2. ↑ Protocol No. 40/55 of the Politburo (Federal Archives)
  3. ↑ Schweriner People's Newspaper of January 22, 1986.
  4. ↑ “Generals des Mdl promoted and appointed”. In: Berliner Zeitung , June 27, 1975, p. 1.
  5. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from May 17, 2003.
  6. ↑ "We mourn our deceased members". In: ISORaktuell No. 6/2003, p. 6 (accessed on September 28, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Hentschel, Erhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and major general of the People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1920
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2003
Place of death Schwerin