Heinrich Stock (officer)
Heinrich Stock (born February 14, 1917 in Dortmund ; † March 26, 1977 ) was a German border police officer in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR . He was the head of the German border police .
Life
Stock, the son of a miner, completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1931 to 1935 after attending primary school. After a brief occupation, he joined the new Wehrmacht in 1935 . From 1939 he did military service in World War II . As a sergeant major , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944 and attended an Antifa school .
After his release into the Soviet occupation zone in 1946, he became a member of the SED and a member of the German People's Police . He first worked in the Gera police station , from 1947 as the commander of the Thuringia border police and in 1948 as the commander of the Benneckenstein (Harz) border department . From 1949 to 1952 he was chief of staff in the main border police department in the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI). After the border police were incorporated into the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in May 1952, he was - now as a colonel - chief of staff at the German Border Police (DGP) headquarters until 1953. From 1953 to 1954 he attended a course at the newly founded school of the KVP in Dresden , later the Friedrich Engels Military Academy .
In 1954/55 he then acted as 1st deputy head of the head office of the German Border Police in the MdI. On April 1, 1955, by order 6/55 of the Minister of the Interior, the DGP was returned to the State Security Authority (SfS) by the MdI. Stock was then from April 1, 1955 to February 28, 1957 head of the main administration of the German border police (successor to Hermann Gartmann ), which was designated as the administration of border police in the main administration of internal security in the MfS from December 1956 to February 1957. On March 1, 1957, the German Border Police Command was formed under the renewed leadership of Hermann Gartmann and Stock was appointed as his deputy. Until August 1962 he was an officer auditor at the Felix Dzerzhinsky Military Academy in the USSR. From 1962 to 1965 he was commander of the 9th border brigade in Erfurt and from 1965 to 1969 commander of the officers' school of the border troops in Plauen . After that he had a foreign assignment as an assistant to the military attaché of the GDR in the Soviet Union , Rudolf Menzel .
After being transferred to the reserve, he worked for Interflug . He died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 60 as Colonel dR and was buried in the Baumschulenweg cemetery in East Berlin.
Awards
- June 30, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
literature
- Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert u. Rüdiger Wenzke , In the service of the party - Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR, Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , p. 711.
- Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke: The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical handbook , 4th edition. Ch.links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 , p. 232.
Individual evidence
- ^ 9th meeting of the National Defense Council of the GDR on January 11, 1962 - Federal Archives.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , January 26, 1971, p. 2.
- ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland , March 30, 1977, p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stock, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German border police officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1977 |