Günter Kempe

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Günter Kempe (born July 6, 1920 in Berlin ; † March 18, 1996 ) was a German medic and major general . From 1974 to 1985 he was head of the Central Medical Service (ZMD) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Life

Kempe, the son of a businessman, graduated from high school in 1939 and was then called up for the Reich Labor Service (RAD). After a short study of chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, he was de-registered in 1940 because of his Jewish origins. He then attended a business school from 1940 to 1941 and worked as an employee in the stamp trade. In 1943 he was conscripted as a warehouse worker and in 1944 he was used for forced labor in a quarry. In March 1945 he was able to escape forced labor.

After the Second World War he attended a preparatory college in Berlin in 1945/46 and studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1951. During his studies, Kempe joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1950 . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD and specialist in social hygiene. At first he worked as an assistant doctor at the municipal hospital in Berlin-Friedrichshain and from 1951 to 1958 he was also a contract doctor for the State Security Administration of Berlin. From 1957 to 1958 he worked as a senior physician at the Charité . In January 1959 he was hired by the rank of colonel with an individual contract as chief physician of the medical service of the Berlin district administration of the MfS. In 1962 he was awarded the title of Medical Councilor, later the title of Senior Medical Councilor. From 1971 he was honorary professor for military medicine and social hygiene at the military-medical section of the University of Greifswald . Kempe was appointed head of the Central Medical Service of the MfS in April 1974 and major general in October 1974 by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . In April 1977 he was at the University of the Ministry of State Security in Potsdam Oak Dr. jur. PhD. He ended active service on December 31, 1985 and was retired.

After the reunification in the GDR, Kempe was a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR) and most recently lived in Stolzenhagen .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Honecker appointed and promoted generals . In: Neues Deutschland , October 2, 1974, p. 1.
  2. ↑ We mourn. In: ISOR-aktuell No. 5/1996 (accessed on December 9, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Kempe, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and major general of the MfS
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1996