Kurt Richter (MfS employee, 1921)
Kurt Richter (* 13. September 1921 in Gera ; † 24. October 1981 ) was from 1960 to 1974 head of the Stasi -Bezirksverwaltung Suhl and member of the SED - district headquarters Suhl.
Life
Kurt Richter was born in Gera in 1921. His father was a railroad laborer, his mother a housewife. After attending elementary school, he began an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in 1936. In 1940 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and a little later also into the Wehrmacht . In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans , but managed to escape back to Gera.
Richter joined the KPD in 1945 and was employed by the Gera police. Between 1947 and 1948 he attended the Higher Police School in Berlin and then became a teacher at the State Police School in Erfurt . In 1949 he was appointed Deputy Operations Director of the People's Police District Office in Rudolstadt . From 1950 he attended the Bad Blankenburg State Police School . A year later he became an employee in the political culture department of the Thuringian state police authority in Weimar . In the same year he also entered the service of the Ministry for State Security and rose there in 1952 to head of the Greiz district office . Then he became deputy political culture and 1st secretary of the SED district leadership of the district administration (BV) Suhl. In 1954 he became the operational deputy head of the BV Suhl. From 1959 to 1960 Richter attended the Karl Marx party college . As the successor to Kurt Grünler, he became head of the Suhl district administration of the MfS and a member of the SED district leadership in Suhl. From 1962 Richter completed a distance learning course at the Stasi University in Potsdam . He completed this in 1968 with a thesis on “The definition of information needs and the requirements for the quality of information in the management system at the level of a district administration” as a qualified lawyer . He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1969. He was released from work in 1974 and released a year later. On March 1, 1976 he was appointed Colonel a. D. in Suhl was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit of the National People's Army .
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Kurt Richter . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 KB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 59.
- Jens Gieseke: Judge, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3. updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , page 276, bstu.de .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. BStU, ZA, MfS JHS MF 511. (Quoted from Jens Gieseke: The full-time employees of the State Security, Berlin 2000, p. 259.)
- ↑ Free Word , March 2, 1976, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Stasi employee, head of the Suhl district administration |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1981 |