Hans Bialas

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Hans Bialas (born June 20, 1911 in Tworkau , Province of Silesia , † October 21, 1964 in Berlin ) was from 1958 to 1962 head of Department XIV of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), which was responsible for the penal system .

Life

Hans Bialas' father was a bricklayer, his mother a cigar worker. The family spoke water Polish . Bialas attended elementary school between 1917 and 1925 and then worked seasonally as a drainage worker in Gleiwitz from 1926 to 1933 . In 1929 he joined the KPD . In 1932, Bialas married. We only have own information about Biala's life from 1933 to February 1945. Then the SA took him from March 1933 to March 1934 with his father and brothers for one year in " protective custody ". A year later he resumed work as an independent drainage worker in Racibórz. Bialas was arrested again by the Gestapo in 1937 for distributing leaflets and released from custody in July 1938 without trial. From then on he worked as a brewery driver in Berlin until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 . As a private in the Landesschützenbataillon he was u. a. used as a security guard for work details of foreign prisoners of war. In February 1945 he got into Zielenzig in Soviet captivity . Bialas worked there as an interpreter in the unmasking of German officers among the prisoners. The Red Army certified that he was “through reconnaissance work in the Russ. Polit. Department have worked successfully ”.

Immediately after his release in November 1945, he went from Frankfurt an der Oder to Berlin to the KPD headquarters in Wallstrasse and rejoined the KPD. On the recommendation of the party, he applied to the police with his Soviet certificate of good conduct in the Soviet sector , which hired him on December 10, 1945 as a detective assistant . On March 1, 1950, Erich Mielke signed Bialas for the MfS, which was being founded.

Bialas now served as a cell locker in the MfS remand prison in Albrechtstrasse . The inmate Willi Kreikemeyer died a violent death there after August 30, 1950. Although Bialas did not have a professional qualification and was intended for “non-managerial positions”, had “a cumbersome receptivity” and “did not always recognize the factual”, he was appointed head of the central remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen in October 1951 when it opened.

In addition to certain deficits, his superiors noted that Bialas knows how to "carry out special orders correctly" and that he has shown himself to be "always prudent and reliable" when "carrying out special tasks". When Mielke, who had Kreikemeyer under his control in 1950, had Alfred Scholz , the “head of the investigative body”, prepare a report on the unexplained disappearance of Kreikemeyer as a precaution in 1954 , Bialas assured in the role of the main witness that Kreikemeyer had committed suicide . Scholz dated the protocol back to August 30, 1950.

Bialas was appointed deputy head of Department XIV (pre-trial detention / penal system) in September 1957 and was promoted to major shortly thereafter. On November 1, 1958, he was appointed head of Department XIV. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the GDR , Bialas was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1959. In 1961, Bialas returned prematurely from a vacation at the KGB in the Soviet Union because he had rioted at an event to such an extent that it had to be canceled. The management and training department recognized that he was "not sufficiently stable politically and in character for the current position [...]." His inadequate training was also criticized. At the end of 1961, the SED district leadership also endorsed this assessment and criticized “personal weaknesses” such as extramarital relationships and alcohol abuse. As a result, he was removed from his post in November 1962 and retired early. As a provisional successor, Siegfried Rataizick took over his post as head of department XIV. From 1963 Bialas worked as a volunteer occupational safety inspector in the Hohenschönhausen sports forum . Bialas, who was seriously ill with alcohol, died on October 21, 1964 in Berlin and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation from Wolfgang Kießling: Leistner is Mielke. Shadow of a fake biography. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-8036-0 , p. 235.
  2. ↑ a b quotation from Kießling: Leistner ist Mielke , p. 237.
personal data
SURNAME Bialas, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German MfS employee, head of Department XIV of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Tworkau
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1964
Place of death Berlin