Gerhard Heidenreich

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Gerhard Heidenreich (born October 5, 1916 in Breslau ; † February 23, 2001 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), a member of the People's Chamber and a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

The son of a laborer and a farm worker after attending the elementary school from 1930 to 1932 as an errand boy. From 1931 Heidenreich was a representative of the Red Pioneers in the KJVD district leadership in Breslau. In 1934 he began a commercial apprenticeship, but in the same year was sentenced to two years in prison for “preparation for high treason ”. After being temporarily unemployed, from 1937 onwards he did various auxiliary jobs. From 1938 to 1945 Heidenreich worked as a transport worker and furnace builder. In 1945 he took part in anti-fascist resistance campaigns in the Wroclaw pocket.

After the war , Heidenreich moved to Dresden and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 . He worked as a youth secretary in the KPD district leadership in Plauen . In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and in the same year attended a course at the SMAD's Antifa School in Königs Wusterhausen . Subsequently, from 1947, he was a clerk for management issues at the Central Council of the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1947 to 1949 Heidenreich was a member of the state leadership and the secretariat of the SED Saxony and was also first secretary of the FDJ state leadership in Saxony. From 1948 to 1950 he was a member, 1949/50 Second Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ. From 1949 to 1954 he was a member of the People's Chamber .

In 1951, Heidenreich was one of the founding members of the International Intelligence Service Institute for Economic Research (IWF) and was appointed its deputy director. From 1953 this belonged to the MfS as the main department (HA) XV, from 1956 as the main intelligence administration (HV A). As Markus Wolf's deputy , Heidenreich was responsible for management work, among other things. From May 1957, Heidenreich was also Alfred Schönherr's successor, First Secretary of the SED district leadership in the MfS. Candidate from 1950 , Heidenreich was a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1963 to 1981 . As early as 1950, he was deputy head of the management department here for a year. From April 1965 to August 1966, Heidenreich studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . On February 5, 1970, the Chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Walter Ulbricht, appointed him Major General. He had a personal friendship with Erich Honecker . Heidenreich retired in June 1979, and Horst Felber took over his post as first secretary of the SED district leadership at the MfS .

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  1. ↑ Cf. Hubertus Knabe : Westarbeit des MfS - The Interplay of "Enlightenment" and "Defense" , Berlin 1999, p. 65.
  2. ^ Neues Deutschland , February 6, 1970, p. 1.
  3. ↑ See Der Spiegel 50/1985: The fourth man , viewed on September 5, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Heidenreich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and secret service agent (MfS)
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2001