Hans-Hugo Winkelmann

Hans-Hugo Winkelmann (born February 14, 1907 in Berge-Ennepe , † June 16, 1995 in Zeuthen ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism , interbrigadist and police officer. He was chief of the riot police and head of the main administration of the German People's Police (HVDVP) in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR .

Life

As the son of a hammer blacksmith, he attended elementary school from 1913 to 1921 and learned the trade of a locksmith from 1921 to 1924. He joined the KJVD in 1921 , the KPD and the RFB in 1923 . In 1933 he emigrated to the Netherlands and was imprisoned there from September 1935 to April 1936. After his expulsion to Belgium, he returned illegally to the Netherlands and was head of the illegal KPD group Rotterdam-West. In August 1936 he went to Spain and took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side . He was a member of the Thälmann Battalion of the XI. International Brigade , liaison to the military intelligence service Servicio de Investigación Militar (SIM) and from August 1938 also its head. He was wounded several times and was interned in the St. Cyprien, Gurs and Le Vernet camps in France from February 1939, and in the Djelfa camp in Algeria from 1941 to 1943. From April to November 1943 he was a member of the British Army in Algeria. He came to the USSR via Iran in 1944 , where in 1944/45 he was a member of a special unit of the NKVD to track down enemy espionage groups in the Belarusian hinterland; In 1945/46 he attended a KPD school near Moscow .

In April 1946 he returned to Germany in the Soviet occupation zone , attended a police school in Potsdam in May / June 1946 , then became an officer of the DVP in Mecklenburg and was head of the People's Police District Offices in Schwerin, Anklam, Wismar and Rostock. From 1950 to 1952 he was police chief in Leipzig, from 1952 head of the district authority of the People's Police (BDVP) Leipzig as well as a member of the SED district management and a member of the district assembly. In 1955 he became deputy head of the planning and procurement department at the headquarters of the Kasernierte People's Police (KVP) and from 1957 to 1959 he was chief of the riot police (successor to Claus Mansfeld ). From 1959 to 1962 he was Richard Dombrowsky's successor with the rank of major general head of the main administration of the German People's Police (HVDVP). After the dissolution of the HVDVP in July 1962, he was then head of the education and training administration of the DVP until September 1963. In 1963 he retired from active service for health reasons and last lived in Zeuthen.

Awards

• 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1960 in silver and 1972 in gold
• 1956 Hans Beimler Medal
• 1967 Labor banner
• 1977 Karl Marx Order
• 1982 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
• 1987 Gold Star of Friendship of Nations

literature

• Peter Erler , Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Winkelmann, Hans-Hugo . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert u. Rüdiger Wenzke : In the service of the party - manual of the armed organs of the GDR, Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , p. 92.
• Hans Ehlert, Armin Wagner : Comrade General! The military elite of the GDR in biographical sketches. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-312-X , p. 198.
• BArch DO 1/64309 Order of the Deputy Minister (for State Security) No. 85/56 of October 20, 1956 on the establishment of the Central Administration for Internal Security
• BArch DO 1/58063 Order of the Minister of the Interior No. 09/57 of February 22, 1957 on the dissolution of the Central Administration for Internal Security and the formation of the German Border Police and the riot police and the main transport police department