Horst Fitzner
Horst Fitzner (born June 23, 1930 in Mühlberg / Elbe ) is a former German district administration manager of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). He headed the MfS district administration (BV) Cottbus .
Life
The son of a baker and a housewife completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic from 1946 to 1950 . He then worked as a train driver and driver . In 1950 he joined the German People's Police (DVP) and began his service in the VP district office in Liebenwerda . In 1952 he became a situation officer in the operational staff of the newly created district authority of the DVP (BDVP) Cottbus and a member of the SED .
Fitzner moved to the MfS in 1955 and worked in BV Cottbus, Department II (counter-espionage). From 1960 to 1965 he completed a correspondence course at the Law School in Potsdam with a degree in law . In 1961 he became deputy head of department and in 1963 head of the working group of the head of the BV. At the same time he was chairman of SV Dynamo Cottbus from 1963 to 1968 . In 1973, Fitzner rose to the position of Deputy Operations Manager of the BV and was promoted to Colonel. After attending the party college "Karl Marx" in 1979/80, he became a candidate for the SED district leadership in Cottbus on February 15, 1981, and soon afterwards, as the successor to Hans Ullmann, head of the MfS's Cottbus BV. On October 4, 1982, Erich Honecker appointed him major general. From February 1984 to December 1989 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Cottbus. Fitzner was fired and retired in January 1990.
At the beginning of December 1992 Manfred Hummitzsch and Fitzner made detailed statements for the first time before the special committee of the Saxon state parliament to clarify the SED injustice. The ex-district administrators who were summoned as witnesses in Dresden stated, however, that in their districts there were no plans to isolate opponents of the regime before the fall of the Wall. According to Fitzner, there have hardly ever been any problems with people who think differently in the Cottbus district, and the opposition both inside and outside the SED was a "politically negligible figure". There was never a decision about isolation.
Fitzner is a member of the Initiativgemeinschaft zur Schutz der Sozialrechte eV and the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV and lives in Bad Harzburg .
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Fitzner, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Roger Engelmann, Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel, Arno Polzin, Walter Süß: The MfS Lexicon. 3. updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , page 93, bstu.de .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau of February 16, 1981.
- ^ Neue Zeit , December 3, 1992, p. 22.
- ↑ ISOR congratulates. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: ISORaktuell. Initiative group for the protection of the social rights of former members of armed organs and the customs administration of the GDR, June 2005, p. 5 , archived from the original on April 11, 2015 ; accessed on April 5, 2015 (No. 6/2005).
- ↑ Congratulations ( memento of April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: grh-Mitteilungen 6/10 (accessed on April 5, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fitzner, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German district administrative manager of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mühlberg / Elbe |