Klaus Eichner

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Klaus Eichner (born May 4, 1939 in Reichenbach (Vogtl.) ) Is a former colonel of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) of the GDR State Security (MfS).

Life

Eichner, son of a waiter and a seamstress wondered 1957 at the Extended Secondary School in Windischleuba the High School off set by the Stasi and began studying at the University of the Ministry of State Security in Potsdam-Eiche . In 1946 he joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and in 1957 the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

From 1959 to 1968 Eichner was deployed in the MfS district office in Altenburg and Leipzig-Land in the field of counter-espionage . From 1965 to 1971 he completed a distance learning course at the Humboldt University Berlin (HU) and became a qualified lawyer . In 1970 he was transferred to the Leipzig district administration and worked there in Department XV (reconnaissance) until 1972.

In 1972 Eichner was appointed to Head Office A (reconnaissance) in East Berlin and until 1974 was an employee of Department XII, responsible for NATO . In 1974 he moved to Division IX as an analyst in the American secret services department, responsible for western secret services (counter-espionage). In 1987 he was promoted to Colonel and Head of Area C (Evaluation, Analysis) of Department IX of HV A.

After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Eichner worked in the staff group for the dissolution of the HVA in 1990. Later he studied environmental protection and ecology at the HU Berlin, worked as an environmental consultant and employee of a courier service in Berlin.

From 1990 to 2003 Eichner was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He was co-founder and 1st spokesman of the historical revisionist insider committee to promote the critical appropriation of the MfS history. Eichner published books about his time with the State Security. Andreas Förster from the Berliner Zeitung is disappointed with the quality of the book Counter Espionage , while Hans Halter from the Süddeutsche Zeitung is quite impressed with this book.

Today he lives in Lentzke as a pensioner .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Gotthold Schramm (ed.): Espionage for peace . Edition Ost, Berlin 2004.
  • with Ernst Langrock: The mastermind: Vernon Walters . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89706-877-3 .
  • with Gotthold Schramm (Ed.): Attack and Defense - The German Secret Services after 1945 . Edition Ost, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-360-01082-7 .
  • with Gotthold Schramm: top spies in the west. Top sources of the GDR Enlightenment remember . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01310-1 .
  • Operation CONDOR. An international of terror . Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939828-42-6 .
  • with Gotthold Schramm: counter espionage. The GDR reconnaissance in the secret service centers . Edition Ost, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01821-2 .
  • with Gotthold Schramm: Empire without riddles. What the GDR intelligence community already knew about the NSA . Edition Ost, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-360-01864-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article102714078/Stasi-Offiziere-ersetzen-Ex-Spionagechef-Grossmann.html
  2. ↑ Andreas Förster, On the invisible front , In: Berliner Zeitung , August 28, 2010.
  3. ↑ Review of counter espionage on perlentaucher.de
  4. ^ Review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  5. ↑ Angelika Henkel and Stefan Schölermann, A meeting with a Stasi colonel , on: Norddeutscher Rundfunk , September 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Eichner, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach