Heinz Fiedler

Heinz Fiedler (born April 23, 1929 in Leubnitz ; † December 15, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German secret service member of the State Security (MfS) of the GDR and from 1970 to 1990 head of Department VI (HA VI) of the MfS responsible for border controls and tourist traffic .

Life

Fiedler was born in 1929 as the son of a locksmith and a weaver . After elementary school he attended business school , which he graduated with secondary school leaving certificate. In 1945 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht . As a soldier, he was taken prisoner by the United States .

After the war he first worked as an assistant mechanic at Siemens -Apparatebau in Werdau . From 1946 Fiedler completed an apprenticeship at the social insurance fund in Zwickau , where he then worked as an employee. Also in 1946 he joined the KPD , later the SED . From 1949 he worked as a commercial clerk and FDJ secretary at the "Ernst Grube" vehicle plant in Werdau. In 1952 Fiedler moved to the Zwickau district office of the MfS. In 1954 he was transferred to Department II (counter-espionage) of the district administration (BV) Karl-Marx-Stadt of the MfS. There he was promoted to head of department in 1958. From 1960 to 1965 he completed a distance learning course at the Law School of State Security (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche . He graduated from this course in June 1965 as a lawyer with a 107-page thesis on the topic “ The connection between structure plan, function plan and organizational instruction in general with special consideration of the importance of functional duties and rights as well as the delimitation of responsibility for management activities in Ministry of State Security ”. In 1961, before completing his studies, Fiedler was appointed Deputy Operations Manager of the BV Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1968 he was department head in the permanent operational staff of the 1st Deputy Minister for State Security before he took over the management of HA VI in 1970. Among other things, it was responsible for passport control , recording and monitoring cross-border travel (entry and exit, transit traffic ) and most recently employed 2,025 people. As the highest-ranking border controller, he was also responsible for radioactive border controls. Along with Rolf Fister and seven other Stasi officers he received his doctorate in 1975 at the JHS to Dr. jur. The topic of the work was the " organization of the prevention, education and prevention of unlawful leaving the GDR and the fight against the anti-state trafficking in human beings ". In the same year he was appointed major general. In 1977/78 he attended a one-year course at the Karl Marx party college of the SED Central Committee . In 1985 Fiedler received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In the course of the political change in the GDR and the dissolution of the MfS, Fiedler was released in January 1990 and then lived as a pensioner.

Heinz Fiedler was arrested on December 1, 1993 on suspicion of joint incitement to the murder of the escape helper Wolfgang Welsch . On December 15 he committed in custody in Berlin-Moabit suicide . Among the mourners at his funeral were numerous high-ranking former MfS officers, including Wolfgang Schwanitz , Gerhard Neiber , Rudi Mittig and Werner Großmann .

literature

Jens Gieseke : Heinz Fiedler . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 17.
Jens Gieseke: Fiedler, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Monika Tantzscher: Main Department VI: Border Controls, Travel and Tourist Traffic . In: BStU : Anatomie der Staatssicherheit , MfS-Handbuch III / 14, Berlin 2005 ( PDF , 1.83 MB)
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 91, bstu.de .

Web links

MfS lexicon: Heinz Fiedler

Individual evidence

↑ Günter Förster: The dissertations at the “Law School” of the MfS - An annotated bibliography , 2nd edition, BStU, Berlin 1997.
↑ See Tantzscher: Hauptabteilung VI , p. 5.
↑ See Hans Halter: There is no escape . In: Der Spiegel 51/1994, PDF (430 kB), pp. 176-180.
↑ MfS-Outsider.de: List of the doctoral procedures carried out at the Law School of the MfS in Golm (near Potsdam) ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2011.

↑ See DEFA Foundation's film database: HAV Stasi burial , viewed on January 4, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Fiedler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German intelligence officer, head of Department VI of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leubnitz
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1993
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Günter Förster: The dissertations at the “Law School” of the MfS - An annotated bibliography , 2nd edition, BStU, Berlin 1997.

[2] See Tantzscher: Hauptabteilung VI , p. 5.

[3] See Hans Halter: There is no escape . In: Der Spiegel 51/1994, PDF (430 kB), pp. 176-180.

[4] MfS-Outsider.de: List of the doctoral procedures carried out at the Law School of the MfS in Golm (near Potsdam) ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2011.

[5] See DEFA Foundation's film database: HAV Stasi burial , viewed on January 4, 2011.