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Karl Zukunft (born February 22, 1926 in Dresden , † February 27, 2002 in Berlin ) was major general in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . From 1964 to 1989 he was head of the news department.

Life

Zukunft, the son of a candy maker and a housewife, attended elementary school and trained as a telecommunications fitter from 1940 to 1943 . In the Second World War he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1943 , then for military service in the Wehrmacht . Most recently he was a telephone sergeant .

After the war he worked as a telecommunications fitter from 1946. In the same year he became a member of the German People's Police (VP) and began his service in the Dresden Police Headquarters. Also in 1946 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as a result of the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . From 1949 VP master at the headquarters of the German People's Police in Berlin, teacher at the VP school in Pirna and then head of training at the XI. VP readiness in Kochstedt .

In 1950, the year the MfS was founded, it was hired. He became head of the communications department in the general department, in 1953 department head in the main administration and economics department and in 1955 head of the communications and weapons department. In October 1958 he was transferred to the office of the management of the minister's working group as a department head to carry out special tasks. From 1961 to 1963 he completed a distance learning course at the engineering school in Lichtenberg (without a degree). As the successor to Karl-Friedrich Köpke, he was in 1964, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, head of department N (news). In 1967 he obtained a technical college degree as an engineer in telecommunications operations at the officers' college of the land forces "Ernst Thälmann" in Löbau . In February 1975, the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker , appointed him major general. In December 1989 he was released from his position and in January 1990 he was dismissed from the service and retired.

After German reunification , he became a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR). He last lived in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and died in 2002 at the age of 76.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We mourn our deceased members . In: ISORaktuell from March 2002.
  2. ^ Minutes of the 71st meeting of the National Defense Council of the GDR on November 11, 1985.
personal data
SURNAME Future, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret service agent of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2002
Place of death Berlin