Martin Weikert

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Martin Weikert (born July 29, 1914 in Spittelgrund , Bohemia ; † April 28, 1997 in Erfurt ) was a German lieutenant general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in the GDR and from 1953 to 1957 deputy minister for state security of the GDR.

Life

Weikert was born the son of a shoemaker and a textile worker. After attending primary school and a vocational training school, he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1929. During this time Weikert also worked as secretary of the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia for the Grottau - Kratzau area . In 1933 Weikert became unemployed. After the National Socialists came to power in the neighboring German Reich, he worked illegally as a border courier and then traveled to the Soviet Union , where he received ideological training at the Comintern's Moscow International Lenin School between 1934 and 1935 . After his return, Weikert joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1935 and became Area Secretary for North and East Bohemia. From 1937 to 1938 he did his military service in the Czechoslovak Army .

After the ban on the KSČ and the German occupation of the country, Weikert emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1939, where he began training as a locksmith in Stalingrad and joined the National Committee for Free Germany . Two years later, Weikert moved to the Kazakh SSR and worked there as a locksmith. From 1942 he received special training in the field of communications technology in Ufa and Moscow . After the outbreak of the Slovak national uprising , Weikert volunteered to set up partisan units in Kiev at the beginning of September 1944 . He was flown illegally to Banská Bystrica in Slovakia and worked there as a radio operator for the main partisan staff.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Weikert became a member of the Central Committee of KSČ. In 1946 he moved from Prague to the Soviet occupation zone in Germany and settled in Halle . Here he became a member of the SED and initially employed as head of personnel for the German People's Police in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and from 1947 took over the management of the political police (Department K 5) in Saxony-Anhalt. From 1949 Weikert headed the state administration for the protection of the economy of Saxony-Anhalt , which was attached to the MfS as state administration in the following year . After the districts were formed in the GDR, Weikert became head of the Halle district administration of the MfS in July 1952.

In 1952 Weikert was appointed group leader of the MfS in Berlin and on January 1, 1953, was appointed deputy to the Minister for State Security, Wilhelm Zaisser . At the same time Weikert conducted from April to June 1955 provisionally also responsible for monitoring and ensuring the kasernierte volkspolizei competent major Division I . In 1956 Weikert was appointed head of the Greater Berlin District Administration of the State Security. With the resignation of Minister Ernst Wollweber , Weikert also left the office of Deputy Minister. On November 1, 1957, he took over the management of the Erfurt district administration of the MfS. Weikert was a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt from 1963 to 1982. In 1976 he was promoted to lieutenant general. Weikert retired in 1982.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions, Do-It-Yourself Movement - Customs Administration of the GDR (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6349). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16349-7 , p. 697.
personal data
SURNAME Weikert, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General and Vice Minister for State Security of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Spittelgrund , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1997
Place of death Erfurt