Erich Bär (MfS employee)

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Erich Bär (born May 23, 1916 in Dresden ; † April 5, 2005 ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and later a lieutenant colonel of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . From 1957 to 1972 he was head of the management offices of the MfS in East Berlin .

Life

Bear, son of a laborer, made after the elementary school training as a plumber and fitter . He was involved in communist organizations early on and between 1931 and 1935 was a functionary in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD).

After the National Socialists came to power , Bär also supported the KPD in terms of illegality and was charged in 1935 with “preparing to commit high treason”. He was detained in the Zwickau , Berlin-Plötzensee and Bremen-Oslebshausen prisons until 1945 and in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1945 . In Buchenwald, Bär was a member of the illegal camp committee.

After the end of the Second World War , Bär became a member of the KPD, where in 1945 he was an employee of the state leadership of Saxony . In 1946 he became a member of the SED .

In 1947 Bär became deputy head of personnel for the police in Saxony . In 1949 he was employed by the administration for the protection of the national economy of Saxony, from which from February 1950 the state administration of Saxony of the MfS emerged. Here Bär was the head of the personnel department. In 1952 he became deputy head of the district administration of Neubrandenburg of the MfS, from 1953 in the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1956 Bär became deputy head of the Frankfurt (Oder) district administration and in 1957 head of the central MfS management office in East Berlin . In 1959, Bär became deputy head of Department VII, responsible for the Ministry of the Interior and the German People's Police .

In 1960, Bär was an officer on a special assignment at the People's Police headquarters within the Ministry of the Interior. 1961 followed a deployment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR , where Bär appeared as a manager . In 1962 Bär worked in the MfS main department of passport control and search and in 1963 became an officer for special tasks in the office of line II, responsible for supporting the West German DKP and the West Berlin SEW .

In 1972 Bär retired.

Honors

literature

  • Jens Gieseke:  Erich Bär . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Jens Gieseke: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security (MfS manual) . BStU. Berlin 2012.
  • Manfred Wilke (ed.): Anatomy of the party headquarters . Studies by the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003220-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Stasi concrete: surveillance and repression in the GDR , CH Beck, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2005