Heinz Hofmann (General)

This article describes the secret service general Heinz Hofmann, for army general and defense minister of the GDR see Heinz Hoffmann (General)

Heinz Hofmann (born March 22, 1927 in Rußdorf ) is a former German secret service officer . For many years he was deputy chief of the military reconnaissance of the National People's Army of the Ministry for National Defense (MfNV) of the GDR .

Life

The son of a bricklayer completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1941 to 1944 after attending primary school. Hofmann became a candidate for the NSDAP in 1944. After a brief activity as a commercial assistant, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and the Navy in 1944. As a sailor, he was taken prisoner by the British in 1945 .

After his return to the Soviet occupation zone , he became a member of the KPD in 1945 and of the SED in 1946 . From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a new teacher . From 1950 to 1952 he was the headmaster and 1952/53 deputy district school councilor at the Chemnitz-Land district council .

On April 27, 1953, he joined the German People's Police (DVP) and worked until 1954 as an officer for teaching methodology in the administration of the Lake People's Police . From 1954 he was a senior officer, head of a subdivision in Administration 19 (reconnaissance) of the Barracked People's Police (KVP). When the National People's Army (NVA) was founded in 1956, he became deputy head of the administration for the coordination of the NVA. From 1960 to 1964 he acted as department head of the 12th administration, from 1964 to 1975 as head of operational planning and deployment and deputy of the head of agency reconnaissance and from 1975 to 1981 as deputy head of the reconnaissance administration and head of agency reconnaissance in the MfNV. On October 7, 1979, he was appointed major general by the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker . From 1981 to 1983 he was Deputy Head of the Enlightenment Administration for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Military Reconnaissance of the NVA , from 1983 to 1984 Deputy of the Head of the Enlightenment Administration for Agency Reconnaissance, and most recently from 1984 to 1988 Deputy Head of the Enlightenment Administration and chief 1. Administration in the field of education of the MfNV. Hofmann was released into retirement on December 31, 1988.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• Scharnhorst Order

literature

• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century. Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 , p. 209.
• Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke , Military History Research Office (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual . 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 , p. 114, online in the Google book search.