Harry Dahl

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Harry Dahl (born August 7, 1929 in Schönebeck ) is a former colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and an officer in the People's Police of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1975 to 1985 he was head of Department XXII of the MfS, responsible for counter-terrorism , and played a key role in the cooperation between the MfS and the German terrorist organization Red Army Fraktion (RAF).

Life

After the completion of high school in 1945 learned Dahl until 1948 the profession of clerks but went in 1949 to the military academy in the police and was in the Directorate in Burg (bei Magdeburg) used. In 1952 he became head of political culture within the People's Police.

In 1956 Dahl switched to the MfS and became an employee of Department III, responsible for economics , in the Frankfurt (Oder) district administration . From 1958 to 1960 Dahl studied at the Law School of the MfS (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche and became a qualified lawyer . From 1962 he was responsible within the MfS for the military district command of the National People's Army in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1966 Dahl became the head of the district administration's commissioner for external defense and reconnaissance . In 1974 he received his doctorate from JHS .

In the same year Dahl was promoted to special duties in the working group of the 1st Deputy Minister for State Security and in 1975 to colonel. From 1975 until his retirement in 1985 Dahl was head of Department XXII of the MfS, responsible for counter-terrorism , in East Berlin .

In 1978, Dahl established the first contact between the MfS and the left-wing extremist Red Army Fraction (RAF) at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport when he met the terrorist Inge Viett . With Dahl's participation, the GDR took in ten so-called dropouts from the RAF in the early 1980s , gave them new identities and let them live in the GDR.

After the dropouts were arrested in 1990, Dahl was charged with attempting to thwart punishment before the Berlin District Court and sentenced on March 7, 1997 to a suspended fine . In 1998 the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment and acquitted Dahl and the two co-defendants on all counts. The extent to which the RAF was supported beyond accepting the dropouts and what role Dahl played in this is the subject of current research.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roger Engelmann (ed.) And others, Das MfS-Lexikon , 2nd, reviewed and expanded edition, Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-681-9 , pdf on the website of the Federal Commissioner for the Documents from the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU)
  2. ↑ Roland Schißau, Criminal proceedings because of MfS injustice - the criminal proceedings of German courts against former employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR , BWV Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-83052-311-6
  3. ^ Sigrid Averesch, "Harry" opened the doors , In: Berliner Zeitung , February 18, 1997
  4. ^ Volksstimme of March 8, 1997
  5. ↑ Documentation of the judgment in: Klaus Marxen , Gerhard Werle (Ed.): MfS-Strafaten. Criminal justice and GDR injustice. Documentation. Volume 6. De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2006, p. 374
  6. ↑ Jens Bauszus, Unmasking in the Workers 'and Farmers' State , In: Focus , May 8, 2007.
  7. ↑ Sascha Langenbach, Die Stasi-RAF-Connection , In: Berliner Kurier , 23 September 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dahl, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönebeck