Gerd Uhlig

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Gerd Uhlig (born February 13, 1927 - † January 26, 2020 ) was a German police officer. He was lieutenant general and deputy to the chief of the German People's Police .

Life

After the Second World War , Uhlig joined the SED and became a member of the German People's Police (DVP) on January 1, 1947. He began his service with the security police and embarked on an officer career. From 1954 to 1959 he was deputy to the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Cottbus . From 1959 to 1967 he was the VP chief of the BDVP Dresden (successor to Heinrich Hertel ) and a member of the SED district leadership in Dresden. The chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Walter Ulbricht , appointed him major-general and deputy to the head of the DVP on July 3, 1967. As such, he was responsible for the protection and criminal police and head of the central working group “Road Safety”.

As the head of the police force, Uhlig was held responsible for the breakdown at the Erfurt meeting of Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt in March 1970 on the station square in front of the conference hotel, and in November 1970 he was relieved of his position as deputy head of the DVP.

In January 1974 he was again deputy head of the DVP and was briefly head of political administration in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) as the successor to Ewald Eichhorn . He then continued to work as a general in the Ministry of the Interior, most recently as head of the minister's office. On June 27, 1988 he was promoted to lieutenant general by the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR, Erich Honecker .

Uhlig lived in Wildau and died on January 26, 2020 at the age of 92.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , p. 323.
  • Armin Wagner: Walter Ulbricht and the secret security policy of the SED: The National Defense Council of the GDR and its prehistory (1953-1971) , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-280-8 , p. 228.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , July 7, 1967, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Walter Ulbricht and the secret security policy of the SED (Google Books) .
  3. ↑ Junge Welt , February 6, 1974, p. 2 and Neues Deutschland , May 4, 1974, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 28, 1988, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Congratulations on the 80th birthday in ISORaktuell No. 2/2007 ( Memento of the original from November 9th, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isor-sozialverein.de
  6. ↑ Obituary notice in the new Germany of February 8, 2020, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlig, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the VP
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1927
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2020