Herbert Hentschke

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Herbert Hentschke (born December 20, 1919 in Oberseifersdorf ; † October 28, 1991 ) was a German secret service officer and major general . From 1975 to 1981 he was head of the Wismut property management department of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Life

Hentschke, son of the roofer Reinhold Hentschke and the weaver Elsa Hentschke , attended elementary school. He was involved in the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, he did illegal work for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1934 he went with his father via Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union . From December 1934 to 1935 he received training as a locksmith in the Moscow machine factory Stankosawod and then worked in the profession. In April 1937 his German citizenship was revoked. From July 29 to November 6, 1937 and from February 22 to May 15, 1938, he was in NKVD custody, was rehabilitated and then worked again in the machine tool factory in Moscow. He became a member of the Soviet Komsomol Youth Association and was a student at the Comintern School in Kuschnarenkowo from 1942 to 1943 . After training as a parachutist , he was employed from March to June 1944 as a member of Partisan Group 117 of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) with Felix Scheffler for propaganda work among Belarusian partisans in the Minsk-Baranowitschi area. Then he was deployed to the front.

In May 1945 he returned to Germany as a member of the KPD initiative group under Gustav Sobottka and initially went to the Parchim district. In addition, until June 1945 he worked as an instructor and employee of the KPD state committee in Mecklenburg for the Malchin and Demmin districts and was briefly a city councilor in Schwerin . He then became an advisor or main advisor in the cadre department at the Central Committee of the KPD and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was jointly responsible for personnel issues in the police and security apparatus. In 1950 he joined the German People's Police (DVP) as VP inspector and became deputy head of the VP state authority in Thuringia for political culture.

In January 1951 he was employed by the Foreign Intelligence Service Institute for Economic Research (IMF), which in 1953 was incorporated into the State Secretariat for State Security as Department XV and in 1956 it became the Central Intelligence Administration (HV A) of the MfS. From 1951 to 1959 he was in charge of political espionage. In May 1954 he was reassessed from inspector to colonel . From February 1956 to January 1959 he was Head of Main Department I (Political Enlightenment / Bonn Government Apparatus) of HV A. In January 1959 he became Deputy Head of Main Administration B (Rear Service), in July 1960 he was also head of the Operational-Technical Sector (OTS ), which was upgraded to an independent instruction area in July 1964. In 1965/66 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and completed an external course from 1966 to 1968 at the college of the Ministry for State Security in Potsdam-Eiche with a degree in law. From 1966 he was Richard Reuscher's successor as honorary chairman and from May 1970 to September 1971 he was full-time chairman of the DSF district board of the MfS.

In 1968 he was appointed 1st Deputy Minister Bruno Beater for special tasks . In 1971 he was transferred to the HV A and as a liaison officer to the Cuban security forces in Havana . In 1975 he first became an officer for special tasks with the head of the property administration Wismut Rudolf Mittag and then replaced him in May 1975 as head of administration. In February 1980 he was appointed major general by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . He remained in office until 1981, when he was fired and a pensioner. From 1976 to 1989 he was a member of the SED's Wismut area leadership. Hentschke last lived as a veteran in Karl-Marx-Stadt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ True German Patriots . In: Neues Deutschland , October 21, 1967, p. 13.
  2. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Herbert Hentschke . In: Neues Deutschland, December 20, 1984, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hentschke, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret service officer and major general of the MfS
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberseifersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1991