Helmut Hartwig (Major General)
Helmut Hartwig (born January 4, 1920 in Chemnitz ; † January 9, 1994 in Berlin ) was a major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR and head of Departments VI and VIII of the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA) of the MfS.
Life
The son of a locksmith and a worker completed an apprenticeship as a lawyer and notary's clerk after attending elementary school in 1934 and worked as such until 1938. In 1938 he switched to an employee health insurance company as a clerk. In 1940 Hartwig was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later in the Wehrmacht , from which he deserted in 1945 . He took advantage of the turmoil of the last weeks of the war and, after the bombing of Dresden, moved from there to his hometown of Chemnitz, where he arrived on May 9, 1945. He reported to the Gablenz district office and got the job of setting up an anti-fascist youth group from a KPD functionary who still knew him as a child. So he was spared the Soviet captivity.
In 1945 Hartwig joined the KPD and became chairman of the Antifa youth committee in Chemnitz. In 1946 he was first appointed FDJ chairman of the Chemnitz district, then an instructor at the FDJ state executive committee in Saxony . Between 1946 and 1947 he was also a member of the FDJ district association Chemnitz and a city councilor. From 1947 Hartwig was also the organizational secretary of the FDJ state executive and until 1950 a member of the SED state executive in Saxony. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the central council of the FDJ and from 1948 was first secretary of the FDJ state board of Saxony. From 1950 to 1951 Hartwig was the second secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ as well as a member of the Saxon state parliament for the FDJ and SED . As head of the organizing committee, he helped to carry out the III. World Festival in East Berlin . From 1950 to 1954 Hartwig was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED .
In November 1951 he was employed by the Foreign Intelligence Service Institute for Economic Research (IWF), which later became the main department (HA) XV (from 1953) and HVA of the MfS (from 1956). There he initially took over the deputy, from 1952 sole management of HA VI (training). In 1958/59 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED. He then took over the management of Department VIII (operational technology) of the HVA. In 1966 he completed a distance learning course at the Rodewisch School of Economics . In 1980 he was appointed major general. In 1985 Hartwig was discharged due to old age. He lived as a pensioner in Berlin until his death.
Awards
- 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1985 in gold
Private
Hartwig had been married to Otto , born Charlotte Hartwig, since 1947 and was a brother-in-law of Stasi Colonel Alfred Schönherr (1909–1986).
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Helmut Hartwig . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 27.
- Jens Gieseke: Hartwig, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Junge Welt, May 3, 1985
- ↑ Cf. Hubertus Knabe : West-Arbeit des MfS - The interplay of "Enlightenment" and "Defense" , Berlin 1999, p. 65.
- ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from April 10, 1981, p. 8
- ↑ Junge Welt, May 3, 1985
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartwig, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and secret service agent (MfS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1994 |
| Place of death | Berlin |