Hans Tunnat

Hans Tunnat (born November 3, 1920 in Löbegallen , East Prussia , † November 17, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German police officer. He was major general and from 1967 to 1980 head of the penal administration of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR .

Life

After attending elementary school, the son of a farm worker family first became a stable servant and coachman on the estate of the domain leaseholder Kröning. After an apprenticeship as a blacksmith , he was called up for the Reich Labor Service in 1940 and then for military service in the Wehrmacht . During the war he was wounded nine times and was also wounded in Soviet captivity. He was buried as a tusk in the coal mine underground. He attended the anti-fasc school No. 2041 in Talitza (with later major general Erhardt Hentschel ).

After the war, his parents found a new home near Leipzig . He returned to Germany at Christmas 1949. He reported to the 1st secretary of the SED district leadership Borna and was sent to the People's Police . On January 5, 1950, he began his service as VP candidate in VPKA Borna. On February 10, 1950 he became a member of the SED . He was first a patrol sergeant , then a propagandist in the state police authority in Saxony, and became deputy for political culture in the Böhlen industrial security office. The then 1st Secretary of the SED-KL Paul Fröhlich appointed him as head of the district evening school in Leipzig. In 1951, Colonel Hans Kohoutek and Erich Sälzer brought him to Berlin. He was employed as an instructor in the political department under the direction of Colonel Hans Beyermann in the main department (HA) industrial security. After attending the political school of the DVP in Weimar in 1952, he became an instructor in the political administration of the main administration of the German People's Police (HVDVP), then as a lieutenant colonel in the department for security issues of the SED's central committee. In January 1960 he became the deputy colonel for political work for the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Gera under Colonel Karl Schweitzer. He completed a correspondence course at the Karl Marx party college with a degree in social science. In 1967 he went to Berlin to set up a political department in the prison administration of the MdI. He exchanged the green for the dark blue uniform and became colonel of the penal system (SV). After the police force was able to work, Interior Minister Friedrich Dickel appointed him in 1967, initially as acting head and on July 1, 1968 as head of the penal administration (successor to Werner Oertel). In April 1967 he was a delegate of the VI. SED party congresses. On June 20, 1977, he was appointed major general by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . On September 1, 1980 Major General of SV Hans Tunnat retired from active service in the armed organs for health reasons.

Tunnat was a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR) and died at the age of 74.

Awards

• 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1980 in gold
• 1974 Honorary Title Hero of Labor
• 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

Publications

• Erich Buchholz, Hans Tunnat, Heinrich Mehner: The main tasks of the socialist penal system in the system of fighting crime in the German Democratic Republic , 1st edition, Berlin 1969, 104 pp.

literature

• Publication by the Ministry of the Interior, Life and Struggle in the Service of the People, Literary Portraits , Berlin 1984, Volume 1.

Web links

• Jan Philipp Wölbern: The historical processing of the forced labor of political prisoners in the penitentiary system of the GDR , p. 18 f. (accessed October 27, 2017).

Individual evidence

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