Hans Carlsohn

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Hans Carlsohn (born December 2, 1928 in Leipzig , † July 18, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German secret service agent of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and personal assistant to Erich Mielkes .

Life

Hans Carlsohn was born in Leipzig in 1928. His father was a worker, his mother a housewife. After attending primary school , Carlsohn began an apprenticeship as a coppersmith, which he did not complete. Then he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service (RAD). After the war he first worked for a saddler and from 1946 as a heating assistant. In 1946 Carlsohn joined the SED . In 1948 he was employed by the People's Police in the Leipzig district. Readiness followed in Grossenhain , Küstrin and Potsdam before he worked as an employee for Political Culture. In 1951 Carlsohn switched to the MfS. In the main department (HA) Personal Protection, he worked as Erich Mielke's personal companion. In 1953 he was appointed his personal assistant. His wife Sonja, née Klemm, had spent childhood and youth in the Soviet Union as the daughter of German emigrants and also worked for the MfS as a first lieutenant in Main Department V (HA V).

From 1971 he was head of the secretariat of the Minister for State Security. "Mielke's right hand" was responsible for the personal care of the minister, the distribution of mail, the selection and collection of documents, the forwarding of basic provisions and official regulations to the management office (BdL), for the organization of the distribution list for circulations and for responsible for receiving management reports (chief reports). In 1983 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1985 he was promoted to major general of the State Security. Even after Erich Mielke's resignation on November 7, 1989, Carlsohn remained responsible for his care and stood by him until his death. In the course of the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Carlsohn was released from his position in December 1989 and finally dismissed in January 1990. In 1996 he testified as a witness in the trial against Wolfgang Vogel . Carlsohn lived as a pensioner in Berlin until his death.

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  1. ↑ Jens Gieseke: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security. (pdf) MfS manual. P. 11 , accessed on June 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ See Karl Wilhelm Fricke / Roger Engelmann : "Concentrated Beatings" - State Security Actions and Political Processes in the GDR 1953–1956. Berlin 1998, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel 2/1992: Caviar account 528 .
  4. ↑ Cf. BStU, KS 1262/90, Schwanitz personnel file, Bl. 388–389: W. Schwanitz: "Note on the dismissal interview with Comrade Erich Mielke" of November 24, 1989 .
  5. ↑ Cf. geraldpraschl.de: Document: The funeral speech for Erich Mielke
  6. ↑ Sigrid Averesch: Mielke Secretary: Vogel was not an IM. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 25, 1996, accessed June 8, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Good neighborhood . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1990 ( online - Nov. 5, 1990 ).
personal data
SURNAME Carlsohn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head of the secretariat of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2006
Place of death Berlin