Manfred Hummitzsch

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Manfred Hummitzsch (born July 7, 1929 in Limbach ; † December 23, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German SED functionary and lieutenant general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). For many years he was head of the Leipzig district administration of the MfS.

Life

The son of a warehouse worker and a seamstress learned after visiting the elementary school from 1944 to 1947 the profession of a shop assistant . Towards the end of the war he was briefly drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1947 he initially worked as a commercial clerk, joined Deutsche Post in 1948 , became a member of the SED in 1949 and was politically active as a city youth leader in the Chemnitz FDJ district committee.

On August 1, 1950, he began working as an operative in the district office (KD) Flöha . In 1951 he moved to Department III (Protection of the National Economy) of the State Administration of Saxony, and later to Department III of the MfS in Berlin . In 1955/56 he attended a one-year course at the SED's Berlin District Party School. In June 1957 he became head of department III in the district administration for state security (BVfS) Leipzig, 1958 1st secretary of the SED party organization of the district administration and in August 1962 deputy operative of the head of the BVfS. From 1960 to 1965 he completed a distance learning course at the Law School of the MfS in Potsdam-Eiche with a degree in law . On January 26, 1967 he was confirmed by the National Defense Council of the GDR as head of the Leipzig district administration with the rank of lieutenant colonel (successor to Colonel Hans Schneider ) and in 1967 a member of the SED district leadership. In 1974 he was appointed major general. In 1975 he received his doctorate from the Potsdam-Eiche Law School. jur. PhD. In February 1989 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

After the dissolution of the MfS in early December 1989, he was replaced and released from service in January 1990, after which he retired. He was a member of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support (GRH) and was a member of the board until 2012. In June 1994 he was acquitted by the Leipzig Regional Court of the accusation of assuming state powers through secret telephone surveillance due to the prohibition of retroactive effect in criminal law , because eavesdropping on telephone calls was customary "as part of the general informing activities of the MfS".

Hummitzsch died in Berlin at the age of 86.

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  1. ↑ Excerpts from the memorial speech for Manfred Hummitzsch at www.mfs-insider.de, accessed on February 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ The Law School of the Ministry for State Security (JHS). Memorial Museum in the "Round Corner" , accessed on December 25, 2015 .
  3. ^ Minutes of the 28th meeting of the NVR on January 26, 1967 - BArch DVW 1/39485.
  4. ↑ Dieter Stiebert: Report on the 10th meeting of representatives on November 10, 2012. (No longer available online.) In: grh Mitteilungen. Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV, December 2012, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; Retrieved August 26, 2014 .
  5. ↑ The followers cheered. Trial against leadership of the Leipzig State Security resulted in acquittal . In: New Time . June 24, 1994, p. 24 (Author abbreviation: MP).
  6. ^ Günter Förster: The legal college of the Ministry for State Security . Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4589-3 , p. 353.
  7. ↑ Leipzig Stasi General Hummitzsch died . dpa message on Sächsische.de , December 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hummitzsch, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary and lieutenant general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS)
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Limbach , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 2015
Place of death Berlin , Germany