Gerhard Neiber

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Gerhard Neiber (born April 20, 1929 in Neutitschein ; † February 13, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German secret service agent. From 1980 to 1989 he was Deputy Minister for State Security in the GDR .

Life

The son of a worker attended middle school without a degree. After moving to the Soviet occupation zone in 1945, he worked as a farm worker.

Neiber became a member of the SED in 1948 and an auxiliary policeman in the criminal police (K 5) in the Erfurt police station of the German People's Police (VP). He then came to the Gudersleben border command of the German border police and then back to Erfurt to the criminal police. In 1949 he was employed in the Weimar district office of the administration for the protection of the national economy of the state of Thuringia .

With the establishment of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in February 1950, Neiber became deputy head of Department IV of the Thuringian state administration of the MfS and after the formation of the districts in the GDR in July 1952 in the political culture department of the MfS district administration in Erfurt. After attending the SED district school in Masserberg in 1952, he became the first secretary of the SED district leadership of the MfS district administration in Erfurt. After the uprising of June 17, 1953, he was appointed deputy head of the political culture department of the Schwerin district administration . In the following year he became head of Department II (counter-espionage) and in 1955 Deputy Operational of the head of the district administration. As the successor to Alfred Schönherr , he was Deputy Operations from 1959 to 1960 and from 1960 head of the Frankfurt (Oder) district administration of the MfS (successor to Helmut Grubert ).

From 1960 to 1965 graduated Neiber a correspondence course at the University of the Ministry of State Security with the completion of a graduate lawyer , in 1970 he became the Dr. jur. PhD. From 1961 to 1980 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder).

In 1966 Neiber was promoted to colonel. In February 1970 he was appointed major general by Walter Ulbricht . In February 1979, it took Erich Mielke to form the manual range Neiber in the Stasi headquarters. On January 8, 1980, he was appointed one of the four deputies to the Minister for State Security. In this capacity he was, among other things, the disciplinary superior of the Administration 2000 , the largest service unit of the Stasi and the main department XXII ("Counter Terrorism"). On October 4, 1982, he was promoted to lieutenant general by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . He was released from his post in December 1989 and retired in January 1990.

In the course of his Stasi work, Neiber was largely responsible for the admission of RAF dropouts in the GDR . He got them a false identity. After the end of the SED regime, the terrorists were exposed, including Susanne Albrecht alias Ingrid Becker, who was involved in the murder of Dresdner Bank boss Jürgen Ponto .

Neiber was tried several times after German reunification , including the case of Werner Weinhold (who escaped as an NVA soldier over the inner German border into the Federal Republic of Germany in 1975 and shot two border guards from the GDR), as well as in 1991 in connection with the Attack on the Maison de la France cultural center on August 25, 1983 in West Berlin (1 dead, 23 injured) (see Johannes Weinrich ); however, he was never convicted.

He is interviewed in the documentary The Ministry for State Security - Everyday Life in an Authority with eight other high-ranking former MfS employees.

Neiber died at the age of 78 after a brief serious illness in a Berlin clinic.

Functional area within the MfS

Neiber were recently subject to the following areas

  • Main Department I (Defense work in the National People's Army and the border troops )
  • Department VI (Passport Control, Tourism, Interhotel )
  • Department VII (defense work in MdI and DVP)
  • Department VIII (observation, investigation)
  • Main Department XXII (Counter Terrorism)
  • Central coordination group (escape, relocation)
  • Working Group XVII (Visitor Offices West Berlin)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in the MfS Lexicon
  2. ^ "Stasi deputy chief and escape helper of the RAF died" , Welt-Online from February 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Cf. Der Tagesspiegel of February 14, 2008: "Former Stasi General Neiber is dead" .
personal data
SURNAME Neiber, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General and Vice Minister for State Security of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Neutitschein
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2008
Place of death Berlin