Heinz Handke

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Heinz Handke (born January 25, 1927 in Stannowitz , district of Ohlau ; † September 2, 2003 ) was Lieutenant General of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

After completing secondary school in 1943, the son of a carpenter began training as an office assistant, which he had to break off the same year after being drafted into the Reich Labor Service . As a soldier in the Air Force and then in the infantry , he served in the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945 and was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949 after the end of the Second World War .

After his return he worked for a short time as a chemical worker before joining the German People's Police on December 12, 1949 , where he was a platoon leader in the People's Police School in Naumburg (Saale) after attending the officers' school . He then worked from 1951 to 1952 as an adjutant to the head of the training headquarters . In 1952 he became a member of the SED and also head of the staff of the Leipzig VP readiness , and in the following year head of the command of the KVP Leipzig. From 1953 to 1954 he graduated from the College for Officers as an officer auditor and was a tactics instructor himself there until 1957 . He was then a graduate of the Military Academy of the USSR from 1957 to 1961, from which he graduated with the academic degree of a diploma in military science.

After his return from the USSR he was commander of the Motorized Rifle Regiment 17 " Fritz Weineck " in Halle from 1961 to 1964 and then until 1967 deputy commander and chief of staff of the 11th Motorized Rifle Division (11th MSD) . From 1967 to 1969 he graduated from the General Staff Academy of the USSR . After he returned from Moscow in 1969 , he was appointed commander of the 11th MSD in Halle on September 1, 1970, and as such, major general. On September 1, 1972, he was appointed Chief of Training and Deputy Chief of Military District III in Leipzig . Just over a year later, on December 1, 1973, he became chief of Military District Command III. At this post he was promoted to lieutenant general on March 1, 1976, the 20th anniversary of the NVA's foundation . Subsequently, in 1976 he became Deputy Chief LaSK for Training in the Land Forces Command (Kdo. LaSK) of the NVA, then from 1978 to 1982 Deputy Chief LaSK and Chief of Staff . In 1982 he was appointed chief inspector of the NVA in the Ministry of National Defense . On November 30, 1988, he was released from active military service in this service.

In a process over the responsibility of NVA generals of homicides in the masonry border of the GDR ( " Wall Protect processes ) before the 35th Grand Criminal Chamber of the Landgericht Berlin , he was on 30 May 1997 in addition to Colonel Joachim Goldbach , Lieutenant General Harald Ludwig and Colonel General Fritz Peter was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in prison and released from prison after having served part of the sentence.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mielke, Michael: "NVA generals blow a certificate to withdraw. Trial because of the order to shoot at the border - eight highly decorated people are on trial" , DIE WELT of August 17, 1995
  2. ↑ Fricke, Karl-Wilhelm: "Border violators are to be arrested or destroyed. On the punishment of homicides on the wall and barbed wire" , The political opinion, August 2001 (PDF; 114 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Handke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, officer of the NVA
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stannowitz , district of Ohlau
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2003