Karl-Heinz Herbrich

Karl-Heinz Herbrich (born February 28, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a former colonel of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and the last head of the working group on commercial coordination (AG BKK).

Life

Herbrich was born in Leipzig in 1937. Both parents were initially workers, later his father switched to the MfS. Herbrich entered 1953, the SED in 1955 and joined the school with the average maturity from. In the same year he was hired by the MfS Berlin and worked there for Department II (counter-espionage, later Main Department II). In 1955/56 he attended a course at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche . Herbrich completed a distance learning course at JHS from 1974 to 1979 with a degree in law. From 1980 to 1984 he was an officer on a special mission (OibE) as head of the MfS's Warsaw operational group. He was then appointed Deputy Head of the Foreign Currency Procurement Working Group on Commercial Coordination. In 1986 he was promoted to colonel. On June 5, 1989, he replaced Wolfram Meinel as head of the commercial coordination working group due to disciplinary reasons and financial irregularities . In the course of the political change in the GDR and the dissolution of the MfS, Herbrich was released in January 1990.

literature

• Jens Gieseke : Karl-Heinz Herbrich . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 35.
• Jens Gieseke:  Herbrich, Karl-Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Reinhard Buthmann: The Working Group on Commercial Coordination (PDF, 932 kB), BStU, MfS-Handbuch III / 11, Berlin 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See BStU, ZA, MfS BKK 97, p. 189. and Buthmann, working group commercial coordination , p. 26.