Heinz Eichler (General)

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Heinz Eichler (born February 11, 1918 ; † January 2004 in Berlin ) was a German major general in the People's Police . From 1973 to 1983 he was head of the readiness department in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (responsible for the military service "barracked units of the MdI").

Life

After attending primary school, Eichler learned the trade of a precision mechanic. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did military service in World War II . From 1945 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war and attended an Antifa school .

After returning to the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany, he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1949 and joined the German People's Police. From 1952 to 1953 he was in the rank of lieutenant colonel and head of the KVP office in Gotha. From 1953 to 1956 he held a position on the central board of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST), from late 1956 to early 1957 he was a lieutenant colonel in command of the Schwerin Mot.-Command of the riot police and from 1959 to 1961 he studied at a Soviet Military academy. 1961/62 he was chief of the staff of the riot police and from 1962 to 1968 as colonel of the VP chief of staff of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Schwerin. From 1973 to 1983 he was head of the readiness department in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR in East Berlin . He was made major general in October 1974 and discharged from police service in March 1983.

He lived in Hohen Neuendorf and most recently in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. After the reunification in the GDR he was a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR). Eichler died at the age of 85.

Awards

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 , pp. 92 and 692.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 150.
  • Torsten Diedrich, Rüdiger Wenzke, The camouflaged army: history of the barracked people's police 1952-1956, links, 2003, ISBN 3-86153-242-5 , p. 817.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BArch DO 1 / 20.0 / 05766 occupation of posts in the riot police.
  2. ^ New Germany of February 27, 1988.
  3. ↑ We mourn our deceased members . In: ISORaktuell of February 2004, p. 6 (accessed on March 14, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general of the VP
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1918
DATE OF DEATH January 2004
Place of death Berlin