Social worker for safety
As a social worker for security (abbr .: GMS) in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR, a category of unofficial informants who collected information loyal to the state was designated.
The guideline 1/68 of the Minister for State Security Erich Mielke from January 1968 introduced the "Social Employees for Security", who were supposed to help the Stasi in obtaining information about public figures. GMS had to be characterized by a "state-conscious attitude" and have good connections. As a rule, they were not used "for the direct processing of hostile-negative persons and groups of people" and only included in conspiratorial methods to a limited extent. An alias was often not given. GMS worked as party functionaries , in the management bodies of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) or in other management functions. Their use was only subject to registration from 1980. Most recently, the MfS had 33,000 GMS.
GMS were not classified as IM by the MfS. GMS operations were subject to different guidelines. For this reason, the historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk pleaded in 2013 that these should not be statistically recorded as IM.
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Social employee for safety. Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 108 online version .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Social employee for safety (GMS). In: Stasi media library. BStU , accessed on October 26, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Guideline 1/79 of the Minister for State Security on working with Inofficial Employees (IM) and Social Employees for Security (GMS) of December 8, 1979. Doc. In: Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Inofficial Employees of the Ministry for State Security , vol 1: Guidelines and implementation regulations, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1996, online version .
- ↑ Cf. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Stasi concrete - surveillance and repression in the GDR. Munich 2013, p. 224.