Fritz Renckwitz
Fritz Renckwitz (born March 12, 1921 in Sautzschen , Zeitz district) is a former German SED functionary and sector leader of the GDR State Security in the SED Central Committee.
Life
The son of a worker completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter after attending primary school . He initially worked in the profession and came to the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in 1940/41 . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the Soviets as a flak soldier . There he attended an Antifa school in 1947 and was then employed as a teacher.
In 1948 he returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation and became a member of the SED. In 1949 he was a student and assistant at a district party school, from 1949 to 1951 department head or second secretary of the SED district leadership in Zeitz. Since 1951 he was a member of the MfS. He began his service as a political instructor in the MfS regional administration in Saxony-Anhalt and was a teacher at the MfS school from 1951 to 1954 . After studying at the “Karl Marx” party college in 1954/55, he became a political assistant in the security department of the SED Central Committee. From 1960 to 1975 he was head of the state security sector (successor to Artur Hofmann ) and from 1975 to 1986 deputy head of the department for security issues of the Central Committee of the SED (successor to Bruno Wansierski ).
He completed a distance learning course at the Law School in Potsdam-Eiche in 1969 as a qualified lawyer. On October 1, 1974, he was appointed major general by Erich Honecker .
Renckwitz is a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support and lives in Berlin.
Awards
- 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1981 in gold
- 1986 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 259.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 702.
- Andreas Herbst : Renckwitz, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Congratulations on the 93rd birthday in grh-Mitteilungen No. 3 - March 2014 ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renckwitz, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary and MfS sector leader in the SED Central Committee |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sautzschen , Zeitz district |