Horst male
Horst Männchen (born June 3, 1935 in Berggießhübel ; † January 12, 2008 in Berlin ) was Head of Department III (radio reconnaissance / radio defense) in the Ministry for State Security (MfS).
Life
The male was the son of an iron former and a chemical laboratory assistant. Immediately after graduating from high school, he joined the MfS in 1953 and initially worked in Department V (state apparatus, culture, churches, underground) of the Dresden district administration. After attending a radio operator course, he was transferred to the main department S (radio) in Berlin in 1954. In the same year he came to the SED . From 1960 to 1965 he completed a distance learning course at the engineering school in Berlin-Lichtenberg and in Mittweida , which he graduated as an engineer for high frequency technology. For disciplinary reasons, Männchen was released from the MfS in 1961, but worked unofficially for the MfS until he was reinstated in 1963. From 1963 he worked for Department VIII ( radio reconnaissance ) of the MfS reconnaissance main administration . In 1965 he was transferred to the office of line II (support DKP / SEW ). He completed a distance learning course that began in 1966 at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in 1968 with a degree in law. At the same time, from 1966 he was a member of the operational staff of the 1st Deputy Minister (for State Security). In 1971 he took over the management of area III (radio reconnaissance) at the 1st deputy, the later (main) department III. In 1974, Männchen received his doctorate from JHS Potsdam. jur. with the dissertation " Problems of the use of specific technical-physical means and methods by the MfS in the defense and clarification of the 'electronic combat' in the class conflict between imperialism and socialism" . The thesis dealt with the possibility of eavesdropping on the "enemy" through radio links in the GDR.
Five years later, in 1979, Mannchen was named major general. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was only released from his position in December 1989 and dismissed a month later. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Männchen had revealed himself to the protection of the constitution and exposed sources. He became a V-Person for the Protection of the Constitution and was courted by the KGB as ordered.
He is interviewed in the documentary The Ministry for State Security - Everyday life in an authority together with eight other former employees of the MfS.
Männchen lived as a pensioner in Berlin until his death.
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Male, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. 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. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 225, online version .
Web links
- Traitor? , Horch and Guck , 3/2008
- Chief eavesdropper of the Stasi died . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 21, 2008.
- Died: Horst Männchen in: Der Spiegel 5/2008
- Interview , Der Spiegel, October 25, 1993
- MfS-Lexikon: Horst Männchen
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Förster: The dissertations at the 'Law School' of the MfS. An annotated bibliography (Documents - Series A). Ed. BStU. Berlin 1997, p. 66.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Male, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German head of department in the Ministry for State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berggießhübel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berlin |