Heinz Huth (General)

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Heinz Huth (born August 6, 1917 in Leipzig ; † May 16, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German officer in the National People's Army (NVA) and the People's Police (VP). He was major general and from 1966 to 1970 Deputy Minister of the Interior (MdI) of the GDR .

Life

Huth was during the Second World War to the war service Wehrmacht confiscated and became a commissioned officer in captivity .

After 1945 he became a member of the German People's Police and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He worked as a department head in the general administration of the interior ministry of the state government of Thuringia and as a department head in the state police authority of Saxony-Anhalt. Later he worked until 1953 with the rank of VP inspector as deputy head of the passport and registration department of the MdI in Berlin (deputy of Johannes Dick ). From 1953 he was employed in the Kasernierter Volkspolizei (KVP), changed to lieutenant colonel and head of the advertising and recruiting administration, most recently with the rank of colonel of the KVP. From March 1956 to December 1965 he served in the NVA, was active in the army sports club Vorwärts and in October 1963 was appointed head of the NVA election office for the Volkskammer election. As a colonel of the NVA, he was head of the 5th administration (administration organization / replenishment) of the GDR Ministry of Defense until the end of 1965, which was responsible for replenishing the NVA with men and officers on a temporary basis.

At the beginning of 1966 he was appointed Major General of the People's Police and, as the successor to Richard Wenzel, Deputy Minister of the Interior of the GDR. As such, he was responsible for the civil sector until he was replaced by Ernst Marterer in 1970.

Huth was a member of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . He last lived in Berlin and died at the age of 84.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 122.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 345.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , October 15, 1963, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Bernd Eisenfeld, Peter Schicketanz: Building soldiers in the GDR: The "bringing together hostile-negative forces" in the NVA . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-637-6 , p. 54.
  3. ^ Neues Deutschland , March 18, 1966, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 22, 1980, p. 8.
  5. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from May 25, 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer (NVA) and major general of the VP
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2002
Place of death Berlin