Helmut Bärwald

Helmut Bärwald , actually Helmut Fränzel, (born March 13, 1928 in Leipzig ; † September 22, 2003 ), was the head of the east office of the SPD in the 1960s and 1970s and later a freelance journalist.

Life

Bärwald graduated from high school in 1946. He was not admitted to study at the University of Leipzig . From January 1947 he was a member of the LDPD and a social democratic resistance group in Leipzig , which was led by the East Office of the SPD founded by Kurt Schumacher . In May 1948 he fled the Soviet zone of occupation first to Hanover , then to Bonn . In 1949 he joined the SPD's east office as an employee.

In 1965 he attended the "School for Psychological Warfare" of the Bundeswehr and became a reserve officer of the " Psychological Warfare " (PSK). In the following years he was involved in various cover clubs of the PSK. From 1967 as deputy chairman of a working group for national defense , from December 1970 as an employee of the study society for time problems or with the establishment of a “study group security policy” in June 1981.

From June 1966 until 1971, Bärwald was head of the “Department for All-German Issues”, the eastern office renamed by the SPD party executive. He was responsible for internal and external security in the SPD party executive, "in close cooperation with the state security organs". Bärwald, the Eastern treaties and detente criticized his party, announced the Head of Section in January 1971, one came party planning procedure by withdrawing from the SPD in September 1971 before. Horst Ehmke had checked and confirmed the suspicion that Bärwald “was a mole of the BND in the SPD barracks in Bonn”. In addition, Bärwald had appointed the leader of a military sports group , Bernd Hengst , who was known to him , as a night watchman at the SPD executive office.

In 1971, Bärwald turned to the CSU and worked as a freelance journalist, including for the Münchner Merkur . Bärwald mainly dealt with left-wing extremism in the Federal Republic.

In 1974 it became known that Bärwald was run as a " special connection SV-55207" by the BND (code name "Bassum") without consulting the SPD party executive. ""No. 55207 "delivered news from the SPD executive committee" , was the headline of the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Bärwald was married and has a daughter and a son.

Publications

• The SED state. (1963)
• Partisans without a gun. (1967)
• Right left. Vol. 2. Comments on right-wing radicalism in Germany. (1968)
• Right left. Vol. 3. Political radicalism in the Federal Republic. (1969)
• The DKP, origin, path, destination. (1969)
• German Communist Party. (1970)
• Trojan cavalry. (1976)
• Poison word professional bans and internal security. (Speech manuscript, 1978)
• German Communist Party. The communist alliance policy in Germany. (1984)
• Abused longing for peace. A chapter of communist alliance politics. (1983)
• Herbert Wehner - the time of his life. (Co-authorship, 1986)
• Mirror fencing / A look at the information practices of a news magazine. (1987)
• Kurt Schumacher. (1995)
• The east office of the SPD. 1946–1971 struggle and decline. (1999)
• No experiments. European pitfalls. (2000)

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1. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Undercover - The BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 230.
2. ↑ Helmut Bärwald: Das Ostbüro der SPD, Krefeld 1991, p. 73
3. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Undercover - The BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 231.
4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Undercover - The BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 229.
5. ↑ Host Ehmke, Mittendrin. From the Grand Coalition for German Unity , Berlin 1994, p. 122.
6. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Undercover - The BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 137.
7. ^ Hans-Dieter Bamberg: Die Deutschland-Stiftung eV , Hain Verlag 1978, p. 137.
8. ^ Hans-Dieter Bamberg: Die Deutschland-Stiftung eV , Hain Verlag 1978, p. 453.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Bärwald in the catalog of the German National Library