Herbert Stöß
Herbert Stöß (born August 5, 1923 in Friedersreuth , Czechoslovakia , † April 5, 2006 in Berlin ) was a major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was head of the MfS district administration in Frankfurt (Oder) .
Life
The son of a shoemaker trained as a weaver after attending primary school from 1937 to 1942. He initially worked in the profession and was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht in 1942 .
Stöß returned to Friedersreuth in 1945 and worked as a weaver again. In 1946 he was expelled to the Soviet occupation zone in Brandenburg . In 1946 he became a member of the SED and a member of the German People's Police (VP). He initially performed his service in the VP district offices of Westhavelland and Rathenow .
Stöß was hired in 1949 at the Rathenow district office of the administration for the protection of the national economy Brandenburg (from February 1950 state administration of the MfS) and in 1951 deputy head of department III (securing the national economy) of the state administration Brandenburg. In 1952 he was transferred to Main Department III of the MfS in East Berlin . Here he became deputy head of department in 1955. After attending the SED district party school in Berlin in 1956/57, he became a member of the Guidance and Control Working Group, then again deputy head of department. He then acted from 1959 to 1980 as the operational deputy of the head of the district administration (BV) Frankfurt (Oder). From 1962 to 1967 he completed a distance learning course at the Potsdam-Eiche Law School . As the successor to Gerhard Neiber , who had risen to become Deputy Minister for State Security , he became head of BV Frankfurt (Oder) in January 1980. At the same time he was a member of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1980. On February 5, 1981, he was appointed major general by Erich Honecker . On January 22nd, 1987 he was adopted by Minister Erich Mielke at a service meeting in the district administration for health reasons and his successor Heinz Engelhardt was introduced. Stoss was released from service and retired.
He last lived in Berlin and died at the age of 82. Stöß was buried in the St. Pius cemetery in Berlin – Hohenschönhausen.
Awards
- 1983 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Herbert Stöß . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jens Gieseke : Herbert Stöß. In: Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß (eds.): Das MfS-Lexikon. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 321, online version .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 6, 1981, p. 1.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 15, 2006, p. 14.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Push, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German district administration manager in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedersreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 2006 |
| Place of death | Berlin |