Joachim Büchner (MfS employee)
Joachim Büchner (born March 5, 1929 in Westhausen ) is a German former major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1970 to 1989 he was Head of Department VII, responsible for counter-espionage within the Interior Ministry and the GDR police.
Life
Büchner, son of a carpenter, attended a commercial school after elementary school and did an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk , which he completed in 1947. In the same year Büchner became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and an employee of its district secretariat in Langensalza . In 1949 Büchner also became secretary of the local district leadership of the Free German Youth (FDJ).
In 1949 Büchner became an employee of the state administration for the protection of the national economy in Thuringia (from February 1950 state administration of the Ministry for State Security) with an office in Langensalza. From 1950 he was an employee of the central state administration of Thuringia in Gera and there in Department V, responsible for "State apparatus, culture, churches and underground espionage". In 1953 Büchner became head of this department. In 1955 he moved to Department XV, responsible for foreign intelligence, and in 1958 became Deputy Operational Director.
From 1965 to 1969, Büchner completed a university course, then a distance learning course, and became a qualified lawyer , research assistant and in 1969 senior assistant at the Law School of the MfS in Potsdam-Eiche . In 1971 Büchner received his doctorate . In the same year he was promoted to colonel.
In 1970 Büchner was appointed to the headquarters of the MfS in Berlin and became head of Department VII, responsible for counter-espionage in the Ministry of the Interior and the People's Police , but was also responsible for the finances of the MfS. In 1977/78 Büchner completed a one-year course at the SED's "Karl Marx" party college and was appointed major general after graduation.
After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Büchner was released from all functions in December 1989 and dismissed from service in 1990.
literature
- 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. 66.
- Jens Gieseke: Joachim Büchner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Jens Gieseke: Who was who in the Ministry for State Security (MfS manual) . BStU. Berlin 2012.
- Manfred Wilke (ed.): Anatomy of the party headquarters . Studies by the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003220-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of doctoral procedures carried out at the MfS Law School ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at www.mfs-outsider.de
- ↑ Tobias Wunschik, Cracks in the Security Architecture of the SED Regime , Federal Agency for Civic Education , 2011
- ↑ Good Neighborhood , in Der Spiegel , issue 45/1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büchner, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westhausen |