Heinz Enk

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Heinz Enk (born June 23, 1931 in Thierbach ) is a German former colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1982 to 1989 he was the acting head of the staff of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA), the foreign intelligence service of the GDR.

Life

After elementary school , Enk worked as a forest worker in Mehltheuer in the Plauen district until 1949 . In 1948 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1949/50 he was a full-time union secretary in Plauen and then studied at the workers and farmers faculty in Dresden until 1952 and at the University of Greifswald in 1952/53 .

In 1953 he was hired by the MfS and from the beginning worked in the foreign intelligence service, the main department XV, later the main intelligence department. Until 1955 he attended the HVA school in Belzig, disguised as the “Central School of the Society for Sport and Technology“ Etkar André ” . In 1955 he was transferred to Main Department I of the HVA, responsible for political espionage, in East Berlin . In 1958 he became a personal assistant to the management of the HVA and was a permanent employee there from 1960.

From 1962 to 1968 Enk completed a distance learning course at the University of the Ministry for State Security in Potsdam-Eiche and became a qualified lawyer . In 1968 he became deputy head of HVA Department VI, responsible for training. In 1977 he was promoted to colonel. In 1981 he returned to the management of the HVA, where he became an officer for special tasks and in 1982 deputy head of the staff. With the position of department head he was de facto head of the staff. The official head of the staff was the deputy head of the HVA Heinz Geyer .

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

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Wiedmann: The service units of the MfS 1950-1989. An organizational overview (Mfs-Handbuch) , published by BStU, Berlin 2012 p. 371.
  2. ↑ ISOR congratulates on the 75th birthday . In: ISORaktuell - June 2006, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Enk, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Thierbach