Günter Herzog (lawyer)

Günter Herzog (born April 27, 1937 in Lemnitz ) is a German lawyer . He was until 1989 responsible for training deputy head of the People's Police School in Aschersleben and in 1990 head of the central guidance and control institution for the state archives in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the State Archive Administration (StAV) in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR , from from which the Central Archives Office of the GDR emerged .

Life

After attending school, Günter Herzog studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1956 to 1960 . He then joined the German People's Police as a qualified lawyer . Until 1989 he worked in the education department of the Ministry of the Interior as a deputy for training at the People's Police School in Aschersleben in the Halle district .

Günter Herzog was a member of the SED and had an unscheduled traineeship at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he did his doctorate at the Section for State and Law on July 15, 1969 for Dr. jur. The topic of his dissertation is The motivational process in criminal offenses against property and the possibilities of influencing it through the criminal and educational measures .

After the Colonel of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR , Roland Leipold , as head of the State Archives Administration of the GDR in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR was relieved of his position at the end of 1989 for health reasons , Günter Herzog became at the special request of his predecessor on January 1st Appointed head of this highest archive authority in the GDR in 1990. Günter Herzog began familiarizing himself with his new role in September / October 1989. His place of employment was Potsdam . He held this management function until the institution, which had meanwhile been renamed the Central Archives Office of the GDR, was liquidated.

On May 7, 1990, he invited all heads or speakers of the archive administrations of the Federation and the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany (AKK) as well as all directors of the state archives of the GDR to the first German-German conference of state archive administrations and archive managers in Potsdam.

Jurisdiction

As head of the State Archives Administration of the GDR, Günter Herzog was in charge of the following archives and institutions in the GDR:

• Central State Archives of the GDR in Potsdam with a branch in Merseburg
• Archive Depot Barby of the State Archive Administration of the GDR
• Dornburg archive depot of the GDR State Archives Administration
• Dresden State Archives with branches in Bautzen , Chemnitz , Freiberg and Glauchau
• Greifswald State Archives
• State Archives Leipzig
• Magdeburg State Archives with branches in Möckern, Oranienbaum and Wernigerode
• State Archives Meiningen
• State Archives Potsdam with branch in Lübben
• State Archives Rudolstadt
• State Archives Schwerin with branch office Ludwigslust
• Weimar State Archives with branches in Altenburg , Gotha and Greiz
• Military archive of the GDR in Potsdam
• Central office for genealogy in the GDR
• Central office for conservation / restoration
• Technical school for archives "Franz Mehring" in Potsdam

In addition, he was responsible for the publication of the journal for theory and practice of archiving archive messages , four of which were published in 1990. The fifth issue has already been published by the Central Archives Office . The chief editor of the archive messages was in the hands of the department head Dieter Hebig .

Fonts (selection)

• Book review Erich Buchholz: "The GDR justice system - the best ever in Germany?"

literature

• Hermann Schreyer: The state archives of the GDR. An overview (= writings of the Federal Archives, vol. 70), Düsseldorf 2008, p. 239f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel. Vocation. In: Archive messages, issue 1/1990, p. 40.
2. ↑ Karsten Jedlitschka, Philipp Springer: The memory of the state security: The index and archive department of the MfS , 2015, p. 333.