Günter Halle

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Günter Halle (born March 14, 1927 in Molmeck ) was a department head in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR in the agitation department .

Life

The son of the ironworker and KPD member Otto Halle was an employee of Mansfeld AG from 1941 to 1944 after attending elementary school . In 1944 he was accepted into the NSDAP and worked in the Reich Labor Service in 1944/45 .

In 1945 Halle joined the KPD and became a member of the SED in 1946 through the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . At first he worked as youth secretary of the FDGB district board in Hettstedt and then became secretary of the Antifa youth committee in Halle (Saale) . After attending the workers and farmers faculty in Halle, he studied social sciences at the University of Leipzig from 1947 to 1949 . In 1949 Halle was briefly an editor at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , but the following year he switched to the Information Office in Berlin as the main speaker . In 1952, Halle drew attention to itself with a book about the French Foreign Legion Légion étrangère , which in the following years also appeared in translations in Bulgaria , the Soviet Union , Czechoslovakia and Hungary . From 1953 to 1956 he worked as a freelance journalist.

Halle had been registered as an unofficial employee of the MfS since 1950 . In June 1956 he was hired as a full-time employee of the MfS, where he worked in the agitation department from the start. In 1957 he succeeded Gustav Borrmann as head of department. In 1966 he was promoted to colonel. 1971 doctorate hall along with the head of the press service of the Chairman of the Ministers of the GDR Kurt Blecha at the Law School of the Stasi in Potsdam-Eiche to Dr. jur.

As part of his official work under the pseudonym "Michel Mansfeld", Halle was a technical advisor for the first season of the series The invisible visor of television in the GDR . After leaving the MfS in 1975, Halle wrote the second season (episodes 10-16) of this series and the subsequent television film Feuerdrachen under his pseudonym . In 1979, "Michel Mansfeld" received, together with other participants, the Order of the Banner of Work Level I. He must not be confused with the West German screenwriter Michael Mansfeld .

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice of the relatives of Otto Halle in: Neues Deutschland, July 8, 1987, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Günter Halle ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the list of doctorates at the Law School of the MfS @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mfs-outsider.de
  3. ↑ Stefan Wogawa: The invisible visor - The story of a cult series. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86939-412-1 , p. 132.
personal data
SURNAME Halle, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mansfeld, Michel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head of the agitation department in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Molmeck