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Ottomar Pech (born January 2, 1914 in Weißenfels , † December 13, 2000 ) was an officer in the National People's Army and the State Security of the German Democratic Republic . Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant general .

Life

After eight years of attending school, Pech learned the trade of knitter from 1928 to 1931. During his apprenticeship, Pech was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth and then from 1931 to 1933 as an unemployed person in the Socialist Youth Association of Germany . From 1933 to 1935 he went back to his trade as a knitter and then did his military service in the Wehrmacht from 1935 to 1937 . Until the beginning of the war in 1939, Pech worked again in his learned trade, but was then drafted into the armed forces for military service. As a sergeant in the infantry, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and attended an Antifa school .

After returning to the Soviet occupation zone , Pech joined the KPD and in 1946 the SED . In July 1945 he was employed by the police in Chemnitz . Until 1948 he worked as commander of the police in the police headquarters in Chemnitz. On November 1, 1948, Paul Markgraf brought him to the Berlin police headquarters as the new commander of the police force. He held this position until 1949. After attending a special course in the Soviet Union in 1949/50 (including with Paul Markgraf) and his return to the GDR, Pech joined the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in 1950 and was Head of Department VII ( MdI / DVP ) and 1952 of Department VII / G (Defense Border Police). On February 12, 1953, he was appointed major general and on March 1, 1953, as the successor to Colonel Heinz Gronau, he was appointed head of Department I in the MfS (from July 1953 State Secretariat for State Security ). In April 1955 he became commander of the newly created Internal Troops Administration in the State Secretariat for State Security (SfS). After the separation of the SfS from the MdI and the renewed formation of an independent MfS on November 24, 1955, the administration of Inner Troops remained with the MfS. In August 1956 Major General Hermann Gartmann became the new head of the Central Security Administration (HVIS) and bad luck became his chief of staff.

After the HVIS was dissolved in March 1957, he was transferred to the National People's Army and deputy chief of the main staff for general questions. In 1960 he attended the Friedrich Engels Military Academy in Dresden and on February 1, 1961, took over the post of Head of the Kader Administration in the Ministry of National Defense (successor to Ewald Munschke ), which he held until he retired on August 1, 1979. As early as October 7, 1969, he was promoted to lieutenant general in this capacity .

In 1995 he was charged with fatal shots at the Berlin Wall in the trial against leading NVA officers .

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  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 2, 1948, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 22, 1970, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Bad luck, Ottomar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2000