Heinz Mirtschin

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Heinz Mirtschin (born June 8, 1930 in Niederoderwitz ) is a German former party functionary of the SED in the GDR .

Life

Mirtschin learned the trade of a weaver and later worked as an administrative assistant. In 1949 he became a member of the SED and a full-time functionary. He was an employee of the governing bodies department of the SED district leadership in Dresden , then 2nd or from 1965 to 1969 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Löbau . In January 1972 he became head of the party organs sector and in August 1983 deputy head of the party organs department of the SED Central Committee. From 1981 to 1986 he was a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED.

Mirtschin was the successor of Horst Dohlus from 1986 until the dissolution of the SED in 1989, head of the party organs department of the SED Central Committee and thus responsible for the guidance of the leading party organs at the regional level and the work with the mass organizations . From April 1986 to December 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

In November 1989, he became secretary of an editorial committee that developed an action program called Steps to Renewal . In addition to the chairman Siegfried Lorenz, this editorial committee included the members Hans Modrow , Eberhard Heinrich , Wolfgang Herger , Helmut Koziolek , Werner Scheler , Gerd Schulz , Gerhard Schürer , Hans-Jürgen Trümper , Moritz Mebel , Wolfgang Junker , Hans-Joachim Hoffmann , Alexander Schalck- Golodkowski , Gerhard Beil , Horst Brünner , Wolfgang Rauchfuß , Werner Frohn , Oskar Fischer , Helga Labs , Hans-Joachim Willerding , Arnold Zimmermann and Helmut Semmelmann .

In addition, he became a member of the so-called Operative Leadership Group Fall of the Wall of the GDR National Defense Council under the chairmanship of Colonel General Fritz Streletz in November 1989 by order 12-89 . This group, which also included Lieutenant General Gerhard Neiber , Colonel General Karl-Heinz Wagner , Kurt Nier , Colonel General Klaus-Dieter Baumgarten and Harry Möbis , “had to collect and analyze information about the overall situation on the territory of the GDR, and continuously analyze the situation of the enemy to assess and to prepare conclusions and / or proposals for general government management decisions ”.

At the district delegates' conference of the SED-PDS at the Humboldt University in Berlin in January 1990, the urgency of breaking radically with the Stalinist command structures of the old SED and consistently democratizing the party was underlined. The conference also called for those primarily responsible for the policies of the old party leadership to be expelled from the SED-PDS immediately, even if they are not guilty under criminal law. In addition to Heinz Mirtschin, these included Horst Dohlus, Kurt Hager , Joachim Herrmann , Erich Mückenberger , and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler . The PDS Arbitration Commission did not comply with such a requirement in its letter of February 21, 1990.

From February 7, 1990 to October 1991, Heinz Mirtschin worked as a cash administrator at Deutsche Post / Bundespost until the structural changes. His certificate of departure dated September 12, 1991 from the Post Office in Berlin 8 confirms that he is an expert.

Awards

Publications

  • On the political, ideological and organizational activities of the party groups , co-author Georg Ostermann, Berlin 1973
  • On the working methods of the basic organizations of the SED and their leadership: Experiences and tasks , Berlin 1985

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 213.
  • Rolf Reissig: Dialogue through the Wall: the controversial rapprochement between the SPD and SED . Campus Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37066-8 , pp. 427 ( preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minutes of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED No. 9/72 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. in the Federal Archives  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  2. ↑ Minutes of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED No. 92/83  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Federal Archives@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / startext.net-build.de  
  3. ↑ New Germany of April 17, 1981
  4. ↑ Central Committee Department of Party Organs ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Federal Archives  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  5. ^ New Germany of April 22, 1986
  6. ↑ Hans Michael Kloth: From 'folding paper' to free voting: the democratization of the GDR in 1989/90 and the 'election question' . Ch. Links Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-86153-212-5 , p. 372 ( preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Order 12-89 National Defense Council In: ddr-wissen.de .
  8. ^ Operative leadership group Fall of the Wall In: ddr-wissen.de .
  9. ↑ 12-89 National Defense Council In: nva-forum.de .
  10. ^ New Germany of January 18, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Mirtschin, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German former party functionary of the SED in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederoderwitz