Klaus Henkes

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Klaus Henkes (born July 29, 1929 in Görlitz ; † March 7, 2003 ) was a German professional soldier and officer. He was Lieutenant General of the National People's Army and Deputy Minister for Transport and General Director of Interflug in the German Democratic Republic .

Life and career

Klaus Henkes was born into a working-class family in Görlitz. There he attended school through eighth grade and learned the trade of a chemical laboratory assistant. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which Henkes soon returned. In 1946 he began training as a miner in Espenhain , became a member of the SED in 1948 and was already a brigadier in a mining company of the SAG Wismut in 1949 . After he had also obtained the higher education entrance qualification during this time on the second educational path, he studied from 1949 to 1950 at the Bergakademie Freiberg . He then continued to work for SAG Wismut until 1952.

Military career

Education and Uses

Klaus Henkes joined the armed organs of the GDR as a volunteer applicant on May 23, 1952 and was commanded until 1953 for course X , the special course for training future military pilots of the NVA air forces ( Syzran on the Volga).

After successfully completing his degree, he was employed for the first time as a pilot in 1954 at what was then the KVP service / flying school at Bautzen airfield , which later became the officers' college for military aviators .

From 1954 to 1955, followed by port usage as main Navigator managing Aero Club, the forerunner of the commands LSK / LV .

Afterwards he was commanded to study at the Military Academy of the Air Force of the Soviet Union until 1959 . After successfully completing his studies, he was employed as the main helmsman in the LSK / LV command until 1961 . After that he was deputy chief of the flight safety and command posts until 1975 (later deputy chief of the flight security command posts and automation (GSA) ) also in the LSK / LV command in the Barnim barracks in Strausberg. During this time he obtained his doctorate in law.

Sequence of positions: Deputy Chief of Staff GSA
Predecessor:
NN
(19 .. - 1961) 		current line-up of
Colonel Klaus Henkes
(1961–1975) 		Successor:
Colonel Günter Hiemann
(1975 - October 2, 1990)

On March 1, 1975, he was appointed major general

Service as General Director of Interflug

In 1975 Klaus Henkes was appointed as the successor to Paul Wilpert as Deputy Minister for Transport and Head of the Civil Aviation Department and in 1978 as the successor to Kurt Diedrich as General Director of Interflug . On October 7, 1982, he was promoted to lieutenant general. Henkes was retired on April 30, 1990. In economic matters, Henkes, as director general of the Interflug combine, also had instructions from the Central Committee secretary for economic matters to follow Günter Mittag . However, he remained subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR during his time as General Director , from which he was paid until the end. In terms of the authority to issue instructions to his deputy, Henkes, the Minister of Transport played a rather subordinate role in practice.

After the turn

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Henkes worked as a consultant for western airlines in the transfer of airlines from former socialist states into private ownership.

Orders, decorations and awards

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The generals and admirals of the NVA. Military history of the GDR A biographical handbook, p. 109. Ed. Military History Research Office by Rüdiger Wenzke Klaus Froh
  2. ^ Tribune (newspaper) of March 31, 1978
  3. ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk : Interflug boss Henkes: What was ordered was done . Broadcast contribution, 1999 (audible as audio file).
personal data
SURNAME Henkes, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, lieutenant general of the LSK / LV of the National People's Army
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2003