Günter Möller

Günter Möller (born March 28, 1934 in Förtha ; † December 28, 2008 ) was a German secret service member of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and head of the main management and training department.

Life

Möller was considered to be the most important person after the manager Erich Mielke . He was a trained toolmaker and joined the MfS and the SED in 1952 at the age of 17 . In 1977 he graduated from the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) as Dr. jur. with a thesis on "The use of the polygraph by the US secret services to check their employees and agents and the resulting countermeasures by the MfS" . In 1978 Möller was appointed Deputy Head of Main Department (HA) II. In 1982 he first became an officer for special tasks, later head of the main management and training department. In October 1983 he was named major general. In 1985 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1988. In May 1990 Möller was dismissed and then worked as an advisor to the State Committee for the dissolution of the Office for National Security . Together with other former MfS officers, he published the historical revisionist justification "Security - On the Defense Work of the MfS" . He can also be seen in the documentary The Ministry for State Security - Everyday Life in an Authority in which he is interviewed together with eight other former Stasi employees.

Möller died at the age of 74 after a long illness.

Fonts

with Wolfgang Stuchly: To counter espionage (HA II in the MfS / Section II of the BV) . In: Reinhard Grimmer / Werner Irmler / Willi Opitz / Wolfgang Schwanitz (eds.): The security - On the defense work of the MfS , Volume 1, edition ost , Berlin 2002, pp. 431–558. ISBN 3-360-01044-2 .

literature

Jens Gieseke : Günter Möller . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 51.
Jens Gieseke: Möller, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer , Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 239, online version .

Web links

Spiegel Online : One day - Stasi personnel manager dead
Günter Möller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
MfS lexicon: Günter Möller

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Günter Förster ( BStU ): Diploma theses and theses at the "Juristic College" (JHS) of the State Security in Potsdam ( Memento from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Jens Giesecke, The full-time employees of the State Security, Links, 2000, p. 4
^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke: Reinhard Grimmer u. a. (Ed.): Security. For the defense work of the MfS. New Berlin publishing house. May 27, 2002, accessed September 11, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Möller, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German secret service agent of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Förtha , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 2008

[1] Cf. Günter Förster ( BStU ): Diploma theses and theses at the "Juristic College" (JHS) of the State Security in Potsdam ( Memento from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Jens Giesecke, The full-time employees of the State Security, Links, 2000, p. 4

[3] Karl Wilhelm Fricke: Reinhard Grimmer u. a. (Ed.): Security. For the defense work of the MfS. New Berlin publishing house. May 27, 2002, accessed September 11, 2015 .