Günter Schmidt (MfS employee)

Günter Schmidt (born January 13, 1929 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † April 14, 2016 ) was a department head of the Ministry for State Security . He was responsible for the operational-technical sector.

Life

After attending elementary school in Johanngeorgenstadt, he began an apprenticeship as a telecommunications technician in 1943 , which he completed in 1946. In the same year, shortly before the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, he became a member of the KPD . From 1948 he attended the engineering school in Zwickau , which he graduated as an electrical engineer in 1951 .

He took over the management of a telecommunications office and later went to the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications in Berlin . In 1952 he took up a distance learning course in electrical engineering and communications engineering at the Technical University of Dresden , which he broke off after a year to move to the Ministry for State Security. There he rose to head of the Operative-Technical Sector (OTS) in 1968. From 1967 to 1970 he was a distance learning student at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he graduated as a criminal investigator. In 1979 he was appointed major general. In 1990 he was released.

Schmidt was a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV and most recently lived in Berlin . He died at the age of 87.

Awards

• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

literature

• Jens Gieseke:  Schmidt, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Jens Gieseke : Günter Schmidt . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 KB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 66.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorable remembrance in grh-Mitteilungen No. 5/2016 (accessed on June 30, 2016).