Horst Bahnik
Horst Bahnik , also Horst Felle (born May 10, 1930 in Magdeburg ; † 2013 in Berlin ) was a German officer, from 1959 to 1988 head of the cadre department of the military intelligence service of the NVA and OibE of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in the GDR .
Life
Bahnik, the son of KPD functionary Wilhelm Bahnik and a secretary , emigrated with his mother to the Soviet Union in 1934 and attended a Moscow elementary school under the name Horst Felle for seven years . In 1946/47 he studied at the technical center in Tomsk .
In May 1947 Bahnik returned to Germany and became a member of the SED . Until 1949 he worked as an interpreter for the German Administration of the Interior, the forerunner of the GDR Interior Ministry , in Berlin-Wilhelmsruh . In 1948 he completed a course at the SED district party school in Berlin-Kaulsdorf and was a student at the police school in Torgau from September 1949 to November 1950 and then its staff. After that he was a clerk in Department IX (disciplinary and investigative body) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and member of the FDJ district leadership in the MfS in Halle (Saale) until December 1952 .
1953 Bahnik took part in a one-year course at the SED party college Karl Marx in Kleinmachnow and from 1954 to 1957 was an instructor in the NVA sector of the security issues department of the SED Central Committee . Between 1956 and 1959 Bahnik was seriously ill. After his recovery in 1959 he became head of the cadre department of the NVA's military intelligence service and an officer in the special deployment of the MfS and remained so until he retired in 1988. He had the rank of colonel in the NVA. Bahnik lived in Berlin's Allende district until his death .
Honors
- 1980 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1985 gold medal for "For services to people and fatherland"
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Horst Bahnik . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Klaus Behling : The NVA's intelligence service. History, actions and people . Ed. Ost, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-360-01061-2
- Andreas Kabus: The GDR's military secret service, order WINDROSE . New life publishing house, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-355-01406-0
- B. Wegmann: The NVA's military intelligence . Berlin 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ People's Army (newspaper) No. 52 / December 1983
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 4, 1980
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bahnik, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Felt, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer of the MfS of the GDR, employee of the military intelligence service of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |