Günter Wolf (General)

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Günter Wolf (born April 28, 1926 in Waldenburg , Silesia ; † February 27, 2013 ) was a lieutenant general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), commander of the guard regiment "Feliks Dzierzynski" and head of the main department of personal protection (HA PS) of the MfS.

Life

The son of a miner completed an apprenticeship as a surveying technician after attending primary school from 1941 to 1943 and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in 1943 . There he was up to his invitation to the Wehrmacht in 1944 Hauptvormann . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , where he remained until 1948.

After returning home, he was employed by the People's Police (VP) in 1948 and joined the SED in 1949 . In 1950 Wolf attended a course at the higher officers' school of the VP and was then employed in the VP office in Prora ( Rügen ). In 1952 he switched to the Prora of the Barracked People's Police (KVP). After another one-year course at the KVP-Hochschule Dresden in 1953/54 he came to NVA Schwerin and Prora in 1956 .

In 1959 Günter Wolf moved to the MfS in Berlin, where he succeeded Lieutenant Colonel Walter Liebig as the commander of the "Feliks Dzierzynski" guard regiment. 1962/63 followed another one-year course at the military academy of the NVA in Dresden. In 1963 he was appointed deputy head of the HA PS (personal protection) of the MfS Berlin. From 1968 to 1969 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . On February 29, 1972 he was appointed major general by the new chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker . In January 1974 he took over the management of the HA PS as the successor to Lieutenant General Franz Gold . In addition to the task of protecting high representatives of the state, he was also responsible for looking after and supplying the SED settlement, Objekt Wandlitz . A total of around 3,760 employees were subordinate to him (as of 1989). In 1979 Günter Wolf received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and was promoted to Lieutenant General on February 2, 1988. In the course of the political change and peaceful revolution , Wolf was released from his position in December 1989 and dismissed in January 1990. Since then, Wolf has lived as a pensioner in Nordhausen .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Gieseke:  Wolf, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ↑ Eberhard Rebohle: Rote Spiegel - Guard soldiers in the GDR , edition ost, 2009
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1972, p. 1.
  4. ↑ See congratulations on the 80th birthday, in: ISOR aktuell 5/2006 ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 143 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2013