Peter Feuchtenberger

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Peter Feuchtenberger (born July 15, 1943 in Werdau ) is a former colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1977 to 1986 he was personal assistant to the deputy minister for state security and head of the main intelligence administration (HVA) Markus Wolf and later department head of the HVA.

Life

After graduating from high school, Feuchtenberger learned the profession of electroplater from 1960 to 1962 . In 1961 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1963 he was employed at the Werdau district office of the MfS. Until 1966 he attended the HVA school in Belzig, disguised as the central school of the Society for Sport and Technology "Etkar André", and then became an employee of Department XV, responsible for international espionage, in the MfS district administration in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1968 he moved to the headquarters of the HVA, the GDR's foreign intelligence service, in East Berlin and became an employee of Department VI, responsible for training.

From 1971 to 1974 Feuchtenberger studied at the legal college in Potsdam and became a technical college lawyer. From 1974 he was deputy head of the HVA department VI / 1 (training and relocation of IM to the "operational area"). From 1976 to 1979 he completed a distance learning course at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in Potsdam and became a qualified lawyer . From 1977 to 1986 he was personal advisor to the Deputy State Security Minister Markus Wolf.

In 1986 Feuchtenberger became an officer for special tasks with the head of the HVA and in 1987 deputy head of the IT working group . After a course at the Institute for Marxist-Leninist Further Education of the MdI 1987/88 and the reorganization of the working group on electronic data processing (AG EDV) into the HVA department XX EDV (organization and use of electronic data processing systems) on September 1, 1988 on the basis of the order K 4319/88 Feuchtenberger became head of this department. At last he had the rank of colonel. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Feuchtenberger was released from work in 1989 and released from service in 1990.

In the same year he became head of the security technology division at Robotron Elektronik Export-Import GmbH and managing director of IKOS Sicherheitstechnik GmbH in Berlin.

During the investigation into the Barschel affair , some employees of the Federal Intelligence Service provided information that Feuchtenberger had met Uwe Barschel , who was found dead the following morning, in Geneva under the code name Robert Roloff . Feuchtenberger himself described this as yet unproven information several times as "complete nonsense".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Headquarters A (HV A). Tasks - structures - sources . (MfS manual). The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Berlin 2013. p. 116.
  2. ^ Roland Wiedmann: Organizational structure of the Ministry for State Security 1989 . (MfS manual). BStU, Berlin 2010, p. 357.
  3. ↑ Open to everything . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1995, p. 31-32 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Feuchtenberger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR, personal advisor to Markus Wolf
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau