Gunar Hartling

Gunar Hartling (born March 5, 1930 in Chemnitz ; † May 31, 2005 in Berlin ) was a Colonel of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and head of Department XIII (Central Computing Station).

Life

Gunar Hartling was born in Chemnitz in 1930. His father was a driver, his mother a housewife. After attending elementary school , Hartling trained as a forest worker in 1945 and then worked in the Döbeln forestry office. In 1948 he joined the SED . In 1952 Hartling found a job at the Rochlitz district office of the MfS. In 1954 he moved to Department III (Economics) of BV Karl-Marx-Stadt and in 1956 became its deputy head. In 1958 Hartling took over the management of Department III. He completed a five-year correspondence course at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in 1965 as a law graduate with a thesis on the subject of “How must the hostile activity typical of the industry be recognized by means of analytical work and in which direction must the IM network be used? (Shown on the mechanical engineering of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district) ” from. In 1976 Hartling was appointed head of Department XIII of the MfS in Berlin and promoted to colonel a year later. In the course of the change in the GDR , Hartling was released from his position in December 1989 and dismissed in January 1990. Until his death he lived as a pensioner in Berlin.

literature

Jens Gieseke : Gunar Hartling . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 28.
Jens Gieseke: Hartling, Gunar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
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. 130, online version .

Web links

MfS lexicon: Gunar Hartling

Individual evidence

^ Günter Förster: Diploma theses and theses at the "Law School" (JHS) of the State Security in Potsdam. BStU , archived from the original on September 18, 2010 ; accessed on January 12, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hartling, Gunar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German intelligence officer, head of Department XIII of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 2005
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Günter Förster: Diploma theses and theses at the "Law School" (JHS) of the State Security in Potsdam. BStU , archived from the original on September 18, 2010 ; accessed on January 12, 2015 .