Karl Rehbaum

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Karl Rehbaum (* 1937 in Schraplau ) was a colonel in the Enlightenment Headquarters (HV A) in the GDR Ministry for State Security until it was dissolved in 1990 .

Life

Rehbaum learned an agricultural profession and joined the MfS in 1955, where he attended the Potsdam-Eiche Law School of the MfS from 1955–1957 ; From 1957 to 1965 he served in the Eisleben district office and rose as first lieutenant to head of the Mansfeld Combine Operational Group in the Department of Protection of the National Economy. Then he moved to HVA, where he was promoted to the position of 1st deputy head of Department XII ( European Community and Western Europe) under Klaus Rösler and next to Dieter Kutta to the position of colonel. He was the command officer of the NATO spy Rainer Rupp and was a. a. therefore sentenced to probation in 1994. Rehbaum is still active as a consultant for the RotFuchs group to this day . He is the chairman of the working group of the educators in the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV (GRH).

Fonts

  • Klaus Eichner , Karl Rehbaum, Rainer Rupp: Military espionage: The GDR reconnaissance in NATO and the Bundeswehr , Das Neue Berlin, 2011 ISBN 9783360018281
  • Klaus Eichner, Karl Rehbaum: Code name Topas. The spy Rainer Rupp in personal reports , Edition Ost, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3360018465

literature

  • Klaus Eichner, Gotthold Schramm (ed.): History of the HV A , Volume 1, Edition Ost, Berlin 2008 (esp. P. 153)
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security Part 2, Links Verlag, Berlin 1998

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Klaus Marxen , Gerhard Werle : Strafjustiz und DDR-Inrecht: Spionage , Vol. 4/2, Berlin 2004, p. 935
  2. ↑ According to the legal notice of the website of the working group; accessed on October 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rehbaum, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Shrapnel