Günter Hofé

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Günter Hofé ( pseudonym : Bernd Elberger , born March 17, 1914 in Berlin ; † December 27, 1988 in Königs Wusterhausen ) was a German publishing director and writer .

Life

Günter Hofé was the son of an art locksmith. He attended an upper secondary school , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1934 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank . There he rose to assistant director position, continued his education at the bank university in Berlin and worked temporarily in Great Britain and France . From 1936 to 1938 he completed an officer training course with the Wehrmacht and on October 1, 1939 he joined the NSDAP (membership no. 7.311.783). In the Second World War he took part as a reserve officer , most recently with the rank of captain . He was deployed, among other things, as part of the Ardennes offensive in the Rocherath-Krinkelt area (not far from the so-called Hollerather Knies) as commander of the 1st division in the artillery regiment of the 277th Volksgrenadier Division.

After the end of the war, Hofé initially worked as a transport worker, from 1949 as a teacher at the public education office in the East Berlin district of Köpenick and at the local adult education center . From 1948 he was a member of the NDPD block party . Through his participation in the cultural advisory board for the publishing industry in the GDR , he got the post of chief editor in 1949; In 1950 he became head of the nation's NDPD-owned publishing house . He completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1954 with a degree in law . From 1952 to 1982 Hofé was First Deputy Head of the Leipzig Stock Exchange Association of German Booksellers . From 1953 to 1963 Hofé worked on behalf of the Soviet secret service KGB as an agent for the Gehlen organization and the BND . From 1956 he was led by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) as an official connection to HA V / 6, from 1958 as an unofficial connection to the Enlightenment Headquarters . In 1963 he was arrested during a visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair on suspicion of being an intelligence agent for the MfS and the KGB and held in custody for a year; however, there was no charge and Hofé was able to return to the GDR. He had indicated to MfS employees that in the past the Central Committee of the SED and the Central Committee of the KPD had entrusted him with financing transactions “in the context of all-German work”.

Günter court was after being in the 1950s, among other things, a book of satirical essays was published and a race driver Roman, especially by the GDR widely read trilogy known about the Second World War, from the volumes Red Snow , Merci comrade and final chord is . These are documentary novels about soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht in World War II. It is the concern of Hofés Büchers to show the criminal character of the German warfare and to describe the possibility of a change on the basis of individual protagonists.

Günter court of the Writers' Union of the GDR and the PEN belonged -Zentrum the GDR, was u. a. 1962 the GDR Medal of Merit , 1964 the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, 1965 the Johannes-R.-Becher-Medal in gold, 1970 the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Medal , 1973 the medal " Banner der Arbeit ", 1979 the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and in 1982 a national award of the GDR III. Art and literature class.

Works

  • Niersteiner Spätlese , Berlin 1954 (under the name Bernd Elberger)
  • Rivals at the wheel , Halle (Saale) 1957
  • Red Snow , Berlin 1962
  • Monologue in Hell , Berlin 1968
  • Merci, comrade , Berlin 1970
  • Final chord , Berlin 1974
  • The Dalmatian dagger , Berlin 1980
  • Die Saufeder , Halle [u. a.] 1988
  • Our dachshund Max and other satirical stories , Schkeuditz 2000

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann : With leaflets and indictments against the SED system . State Commissioner for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic, Schwerin 1998, p. 31.
  2. ↑ Ronny Heidenreich: The GDR espionage of the BND. From the beginnings to the construction of the Wall (= publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 Volume 11). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-024-7 , pp. 511-520.
  3. ↑ See Wurm / Barth: Hofé, Günter .
personal data
SURNAME Hofé, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elberger, Bernd (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publishing director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1988
Place of death King Wusterhausen