Günter Bohnsack

Günter Bohnsack (* 1939 in Berlin ; † 2013 ibid) was a lieutenant colonel in the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA) within the Ministry for State Security (MfS), the foreign intelligence service of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Life

Bohnsack studied from 1959 to 1964 at the journalism section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , then he worked for the State Security. In 1975 he obtained a diploma in foreign policy.

He was lieutenant colonel in the main department X. Bohnsack's department was responsible for gathering information and disinformation in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin . After 1990, Bohnsack distanced himself from the MfS in two published books in which he critically examines the inner workings of the MfS and its work. MfS colleagues have therefore distanced themselves from him, like his former superior Werner Großmann (“This rascal!”).

Since German reunification , Günter Bohnsack has been a sought-after commemorative witness for the unreliably documented collaboration between prominent West Germans and the East German Ministry for State Security. He accused Bernt Engelmann and Günter Wallraff as unofficial employees of the MfS. In an article for SPIEGEL in 1991, Bohnsack, together with his former Stasi colleague Herbert Brehmer, classified Beate Klarsfeld as a “contact woman at a legalized MfS branch”. The authors wrote: “Ms. Klarsfeld picked up the incriminating material against the then Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger , with whom she has been denouncing Kiesinger's Nazi past since 1967. Her husband Serge was also with us several times. The two of them received piles of documents from us. ”He described Stasi campaigns against Hans Filbinger and Heinrich Lübke . “ [Z] u his duties included disinformation. His statements today should also be assessed with appropriate caution. “( Peter Wensierski : Klara and the detectives , Der Spiegel from March 15, 2012. )

Works

• with Herbert Brehmer: Order to mislead. How the Stasi made politics in the West. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-551-85003-8 .
• The legend dies - the end of Wolf's secret service. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-25-7 .

See also

• William Borm

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Bohnsack in the catalog of the German National Library
• A. Jeschke, D. Uentzelmann: Roast goose in the jungle: The former Stasi officers Günter Bohnsack and Herbert Brehmer on East Berlin's tricks against Bonn (I) . Der Spiegel 29/1991, July 15, 1991, pp. 34-38
• Stasi: Often for tea . Der Spiegel 30/1991, July 22, 1991, pp. 57-58 (Part 2 of the report on Bohnsack and Bremer.)
• Günter Bohnsack in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffen Reichert: Transformation processes: the rebuilding of the LVZ (= media change in East Germany 1). Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4487-0 , p. 250
2. ↑ Nikolaus Jilch, Jens Lang: Ostalgiker . ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Date June 1, 2008. 
3. ↑ Frank Rothe: The story of Catherine Gittis - There is no stone on her grave . the Friday of July 13, 2001
4. ^ ^{A b} Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Gunther Latsch: Victory without a winner. Der Spiegel 44/2004 of October 25, 2004, pp. 216-218.
5. ↑ Dirk Banse, Michael Behrendt: Stasi led Bernt Engelmann as IM "Albers" . Die Welt, June 19, 2004
6. ↑ Günter Bohnsack, Herbert Brehmer: Meeting on the park bench - The ex-Stasi officers Günter Bohnsack and Herbert Brehmer on their tricks against secret services and the media (II) In: Der SPIEGEL , July 22, 1991.
7. ↑ Jochen Kummer: The good star of the Stasi . World on Sunday , April 29, 2001.