Manfred Liebscher

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Manfred Liebscher (born November 18, 1930 in Holzhau ; † July 4, 2014 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) was a German author , criminalist and archivist as well as lieutenant colonel of the GDR Ministry for State Security .

Life

Before and during the Second World War, Liebscher grew up with his grandmother in a village in the Ore Mountains. At the age of twelve he was given as a farmhand to a farmer in a neighboring village. He ran away from this after being treated unjustly. Later he learned the trade of a saddler . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked in an upholstery shop . When this was closed, he went to Bismut as a miner .

At the age of 18 he applied for police service. He came to the NVA via the barracked People's Police . There he rose to senior lieutenant and worked in a military district command . At the workers 'and farmers' faculty , he acquired the special qualification to study forestry . Due to a congenital hip dislocation , however, he could not take up the forest worker training required as a basis for the forestry profession.

In 1958 the Ministry of State Security recruited him. From 1959 worked in its investigative department, first in Karl-Marx-Stadt and from 1960 in Berlin on the investigation of military crimes. Later he worked in the NS archives of the Stasi on the investigation of Nazi and war crimes . When this archive was transferred to the Federal Archives in Koblenz after German reunification , it was only taken over for a short time. As a research assistant in the State Council of the GDR , he was awarded the " Labor Banner " Level III order in 1987 .

In Gisela Karau's stasi protocols. Liebscher was one of the 13 interviewees in discussions with former employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . As a pensioner, Liebscher began writing - initially only for the grandchildren. His autobiography In the Paradise of Memories ... was published in three editions. He wrote the preface for questions to the MfS (edition-ost, 2010).

Works

literature

  • Gisela Karau: Stasi protocols. Talks with former employees of the GDR Ministry for State Security. dipa Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7638-0182-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 29, 1987, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Liebscher, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, criminalist, archivist, lieutenant colonel of the Stasi of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzhau
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2014
Place of death Rüdersdorf near Berlin