Gerhard Niebling

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Gerhard Niebling (born July 16, 1932 in Marksuhl ; † April 27, 2003 in Berlin ) was a major general and from 1983 to 1990 head of the Central Coordination Group of the GDR State Security . As such, he was responsible for combating GDR citizens who wanted to flee and leave the country .

Childhood and youth

Born the son of a miner and a forest worker, Niebling first attended elementary school in Marksuhl from 1939 to 1947 . After he graduated from the Ernst-Abbe-Oberschule in Eisenach in 1951 , he initially worked as a conveyor man in the Dorndorf potash mine . In 1952 he joined the FDJ and a year later the SED .

Career in the MfS

At the age of 20, Niebling joined the Ministry of State Security . After a one-year course at the Stasi University in Potsdam , he joined the investigation department (main department IX) in 1953 and worked for 25 years as an “investigative officer” in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . There he was u. a. interrogated the inmates Heinz Friedemann and 1955 Karl Laurenz , who were later executed with the guillotine .

Former prisoners said they had been harassed by Niebling and thus pressured into incriminating confessions. For example, he worked out precise schedules for night interrogations in order to wear down the detainees.

Between 1959 and 1960 Niebling attended the district party school. From 1964 on, Niebling completed a four-year correspondence course at the Humboldt University in Berlin , from which he graduated with a diploma - criminalist . In 1979 he received his doctorate in law from the Stasi University in Potsdam with a thesis on " The tasks of the Ministry for State Security in connection with the increasing number of foreigners in the GDR ". In the same year he was promoted to deputy head of the investigative body. 1980 Niebling received an award as "Honored Employee of the MfS".

In 1983 he became head of the Central Coordination Group of the MfS (ZKG), a unit for combating relocation, flight and escape assistance. A year later he was appointed major general. With the dissolution of the MfS, he went into early retirement in 1990. Until May 1990 Niebling was an advisor to the state committee for the dissolution of the state security service, which was renamed the Office for National Security .

Life after 1990

In 1997 Niebling was charged with assault and extortion before the Berlin Regional Court. In his role as the investigating officer at the time, he is said to have hit the former inmate Arthur Krajc in the face several times with his fist, so that he suffered permanent hearing damage. The only witness Krajc died during the ongoing criminal proceedings, so that Niebling was acquitted for lack of evidence. Another indictment of abduction was an acquittal.

In 1999 Niebling joined the DKP . He also made his own contribution to the historical revisionist work Die Sicherheit - zur Abwehrarbeit des MfS , a justification by former Stasi members, which appeared in 2002. In 2002 he was interviewed in the documentary The Ministry for State Security - Everyday Life in an Authority together with eight other former Stasi employees.

Fonts

  • Gerhard Niebling: Against leaving the GDR, against human trafficking and gang crime (On the responsibility of the ZKG / BKG) , in: Reinhard Grimmer / Werner Irmler / Willi Opitz / Wolfgang Schwanitz (eds.): The security - on the defense work of the MfS , Volume 2 , edition ost , Berlin 2002, pp. 161–245

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See obituary of the historical revisionist "Insider Committee to Promote the Critical Appropriation of the History of the MfS" [1]
  2. ^ Original documents signed by Niebling on the Friedemann case
  3. ^ Documents from the Stasi records authority on the "Sylvester case" in 1955
  4. ^ Jens Gieseke: Gerhard Niebling. (pdf) In: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security (MfS manual). BStU, 2012, p. 58 , accessed on November 24, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Michael Mielke: acquittal for GDR entertainer Vogel. In: The world. November 30, 1996, archived from the original on November 24, 2014 ; Retrieved November 24, 2014 .
  6. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from a MfS perspective Stiftung-hsh.de, Forum, pp. 490–496. 2006 ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
  7. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke: Reinhard Grimmer u. a. (Ed.): Security. For the defense work of the MfS. New Berlin publishing house. May 27, 2002, accessed September 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Niebling, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German intelligence officer, head of the Central Coordination Group of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Marksuhl
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2003
Place of death Berlin