Helmut Nedwig

Helmut Nedwig (born August 11, 1927 in Bautzen ; † May 30, 1992 ) was a German lieutenant general in the People's Police and long-time chief of the GDR's criminal police .

Life

After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a vulcanizer. On April 20, 1944, he became a member of the NSDAP . He had to do military service in the Wehrmacht and was briefly a prisoner of war .

In 1945 he returned to Bautzen and became a member of the KPD , in 1946 of the SED and the FDJ . He was first head of the FDJ local leadership in Bautzen, then an employee of the FDJ regional leadership in Brandenburg. In 1948 he became a member of the German People's Police and worked as an officer in the criminal police until 1960. From 1960 to 1967 he was deputy chief of the transport police. He studied at the Karl Marx party college and at the militia college in the Soviet Union. He completed his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin as a qualified criminalist. From 1967 to 1972 he was chief of the transport police as the successor to Major General Paul Ludwig and from 1972 to 1990 as the successor to Colonel Fritz Hoppe he was head of the main criminal investigation department in the Ministry of the Interior . In 1974 he was appointed major general , and in 1986 promoted to lieutenant general. He also held the position of chairman of the martial arts section of the Dynamo sports association and was a member of the presidium of the central management of SV Dynamo.

Awards

• 1974 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1979 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1987 in gold
• 1984 Order Banner of Labor Level I

literature

• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 241.
• Olaf Kappelt , Braunbuch DDR - Nazis in the GDR , Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 309