Horst Ende (policeman)

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Horst Ende (center) at the Seventh Party Congress of the SED with Gerald Götting and Paul Verner

Horst Ende (born December 30, 1926 in Dresden , † September 1996 in Berlin ) was a German officer in the People's Police (VP). He was major general and from 1964 to 1975 police chief of East Berlin .

Life

Ende came from a working class family in Dresden. The young toolmaker came back to Dresden from the war at the age of 19 in March 1946, became a member of the KPD / SED on April 16, 1946, and joined the police on May 16, 1946 (in the 13th district in Dresden-Trachau). Since that time he worked as a sergeant of the VP and district manager in Dresden. First he was assigned to a special unit of the German People's Police for three years . Because of his excellent performance and skills, he became head of the protective police of the then state of Saxony in 1950 , later 1st deputy to the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) in Karl-Marx-Stadt and then served as a responsible employee in the Ministry of the Interior . He graduated from the state police school, the state administration school and the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. Ende studied in Moscow in 1958 at an academy of the USSR and later at the Friedrich Engels Military Academy in Dresden.

From December 1, 1959, as Colonel VP, he was head of staff in the Ministry of the Interior . Along with Karl Maron , Willi Seifert and Fritz Eikemeier, he was part of Erich Honecker's staff , who closed the borders with the building of the Wall on August 13, 1961. On November 20, 1964, he succeeded Fritz Eikemeier as President of the East Berlin People's Police and held this position until 1975. By resolution of the GDR Council of Ministers he was appointed major general on June 30, 1965. When BFC Dynamo was founded on January 15, 1966, he was elected to the board. Ende was also a member of the central management of the Dynamo sports association . From 1967 to 1976 he was a member of the SED district leadership and a member of the Berlin city council . In April 1967 he was a delegate of the Seventh and in June 1971 the Eighth Party Congress of the SED. In February 1976 the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED agreed to his dismissal from the service of the German People's Police as a result of full disability.

Ende was married and had three sons. He was a member of the Initiative Community for the Protection of Social Rights e. V. Ende died at the age of 69.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 58.
  • Publication of the MdI: Life and Struggle in the Service of the People , 1984, Volume 1.
  • 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. 77.

Web links

Commons : Horst Ende  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , July 1, 1970, p. 6.
  2. ^ New Germany , July 1, 1965, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , January 17, 1966, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , July 3, 1969, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Minutes No. 6/76 of the meeting of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee on February 10, 1976 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/2/1603.
  6. ↑ Portrait in the Berliner Zeitung , November 25, 1964, p. 12.
  7. ↑ We mourn our deceased members In: ISORaktuell , October 1996.
personal data
SURNAME End, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and police chief of East Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 1996
Place of death Berlin