Heinz Eggebrecht
Heinz Eggebrecht (born February 16, 1916 in Oberkaufungen ; † June 17, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German colonel and district administrative manager of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1962 to 1971 he was head of the MfS district administration in Magdeburg .
Life
Eggebrecht, son of a miner , attended a secondary school and became a commercial clerk . In 1937/38 he worked as a warehouse manager in the Army Equipment Office in Kassel . In 1938 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and fought as a simple soldier in World War II . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US , but was released after just three days.
After the end of the war, Eggebrecht joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). At times he worked as a chemical worker and then as a wage clerk in Böhlen . In 1946/47 he attended a course for new teachers in Koethen and became a primary school teacher.
In April 1950 Eggebrecht went to the MfS and was hired by the Eisleben district office . In September he moved to Department IX of the Saxony-Anhalt state administration in Halle (Saale) , responsible for investigations. In 1952 he moved to the Magdeburg district administration, where he became head of the same department. From 1955 to 1957 he completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht" (DASR) in Potsdam , but only made a partial degree in philosophy and economics . In 1960/61 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. After further studies at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche , he became a qualified lawyer in 1968 .
In 1962, Eggebrecht, as the successor to Reinhold Knoppe , was promoted to head of the Magdeburg district administration of the MfS and in 1964 to colonel. At the same time he was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg. In 1971/72 he was assigned a special task to the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA), the GDR's foreign intelligence service in East Berlin . From 1972 until his retirement in 1982, Eggebrecht was an officer on a special mission and head of the central office of the sports association (SV) Dynamo (successor to Helmut Welz). On May 26, 1974, he was elected to the DTSB Presidium at the 5th Gymnastics and Sports Day . Eggebrecht, a member of the UIPMB council , was elected chairman of the newly formed material commission at the congress of the International Association for Modern Pentathlon and Biathlon (UIPMB) in Lahti in February 1981 .
Awards and honors
- 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1976 in gold
- 1970 Gold Medal of Merit of the organs of the Ministry of the Interior
- 1976 Honorary gift from the Council of Ministers of the GDR (for his services in the successful performance of the GDR in the 1976 Olympic Games)
- 1980 Order Banner of Labor Level I
literature
- Roger Engelmann, Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel, Arno Polzin, Walter Süß: The MfS Lexicon. 3. updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , page 75, bstu.de .
- Jens Gieseke : Heinz Eggebrecht . 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 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Volksstimme , May 24, 1971
- ^ Volksstimme , May 27, 1974
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 16, 1981, p. 15.
- ↑ Volksstimme , June 25, 1970, p. 2.
- ^ New Germany , September 10, 1976, p. 4.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eggebrecht, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Acquisitions |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1994 |
| Place of death | Berlin |