Harry Schuett

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Harry Schütt (born November 4, 1930 in Stettin ) is a former major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1977 to 1990 he was head of Department IX of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA), the GDR's foreign intelligence service, responsible for the "reconnaissance of opposing services".

Life

From 1945 to 1949 Schütt completed an apprenticeship as a businessman and worked as a sales point manager in Grevesmühlen . In 1949 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1950 he went to the maritime police , where he was a clerk in the cadre department. In 1951 Schütt was hired by the MfS.

Until 1956 Schütt worked in the MfS Department I, responsible for the people's police on standby , in Rostock , then he was transferred to the HVA headquarters in East Berlin and became an employee of the Main Department I, responsible for political espionage . In 1956 he was transferred to Department IV, responsible for “Counter-Espionage at home and abroad and hostile services in the FRG”, became its deputy in 1962 and its head in 1966.

From 1967 to 1970 Schütt completed a distance learning course at the Humboldt University in Berlin and became a qualified criminalist. In 1975/76 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . In 1977 he became head of Division IX, responsible for counter-espionage. On the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the formation of the MfS, Schütt was appointed major general in February 1988 by the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker .

After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was dismissed from the service in 1990.

In April 1991 Schütt was accused of espionage and aiding and abetting treason in connection with the recruitment of citizens of the Federal Republic by the MfS, in particular the double agent Alfred Spuhler , whose chief officer was Schütt, and was taken into custody on account of the risk of flight. In the same year he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, suspended, and released.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Generals of the Ministry of State Security promoted and appointed . In: Neues Deutschland , February 3, 1988, page 1.
  2. ↑ Espionage - Fat Sources . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1991 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Peter Siebenmorgen: The general in enemy hands . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/1991
personal data
SURNAME Schütt, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin