Harry Herrmann

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Harry Herrmann (born January 21, 1930 in Niedersteina , Kamenz district ) is a German former colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1976 to 1989 he was Head of Department V of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA), the GDR's foreign intelligence service, responsible for the so-called “scientific and technical evaluation of Western cutting-edge technologies”, primarily through industrial espionage .

Life

Herrmann, the son of a bricklayer, visited after the completion of primary school , a trade school and learned the profession of 1,947 metal handle. In the same year he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). By 1952 he completed another apprenticeship in the administration of the municipality of Arnsdorf , attended the workers and farmers faculties in Dresden and Greifswald and passed the Abitur . Until 1956 he studied at the University of Leipzig and became a graduate economist .

In 1956 Herrmann was employed by the district administration of the MfS in Leipzig and deployed in Department XV, responsible for espionage. In 1963 he was transferred to the headquarters of the HVA in East Berlin and worked in Departments V, responsible for industrial espionage, and XV, responsible for defense technology, mechanical engineering, and aerospace. In 1974 Herrmann became deputy head of department V and in 1976 he was appointed as the successor to Paul Bilke on July 1, 1976 . In February 1981 he was promoted to colonel.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was released from work in 1989 and released from service in 1990. Herrmann is a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR) and lives in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

literature

  • Dieter Hoffmann , Kristie Macrakis (ed.): Natural science and technology in the GDR . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 69 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Jens Gieseke :  Harry Herrmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Jens Gieseke: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security (MfS manual) . BStU, Berlin 2012. (online)
  • Jens Gieseke: The full-time employees of the State Security , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-227-1 .
  • Roland Wiedmann (Ed. BStU): The service units of the MfS 1950–1989. An organizational overview (MfS manual) . Berlin 2012, p. 383.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ISOR congratulates Harry Herrmann on his 75th birthday . In: ISORaktuell No. 1/2005, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedersteina , Kamenz district