Richard Horn (MfS employee)

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Richard Horn (born February 20, 1904 in Marienthal , † November 11, 1977 in Bernau ) was a German communist , interbrigadist and officer of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . From 1952 to 1953 he was head of the Neubrandenburg district administration of the MfS.

Life

Horn, the son of a well builder, attended elementary school, learned the trade of fitter from 1918 and worked in the trade until 1928. After working as a welder in 1929, he was unemployed or casual worker from 1930 to 1933. Horn joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1923 . In 1933 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and did illegal party work. From 1937 to 1939 he fought as an interbrigadist in the Spanish Civil War and was political commissar of a company. Horn was interned in France in 1939 and taken into German captivity in 1940. He then had to do forced labor in Brüx under a false name . Before the end of the Second World War , he returned to Marienthal in February 1945.

In the same year he became mayor in Hirschfelde (county Zittau) and 1946 member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

In 1947 Horn became secretary in the FDGB district committee in Zittau and in 1948 the control officer of the Saxon state control commission in Zittau. In October 1949 he was hired by the Administration for the Protection of the National Economy of Saxony (from February 1950 State Administration of Saxony of the MfS). He was initially head of the district office (KD) Grossenhain of the MfS and from May 1952 Deputy Operational of the head of the state administration of Saxony. After the administrative reform and the dissolution of the federal states in the summer of 1952, he became head of the newly formed district administration (BV) Neubrandenburg, based in Neustrelitz, in July 1952 . In 1953 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

In the summer of 1953 he asked for his release because he refused the then common practice of the Stasi of extensive arrests and long interrogations, which were demanded by his Soviet "adviser". After criticism of his work by the SED district leadership and the MfS leadership, he was released from his position in November 1953. In February 1954 he became the operational deputy of the new head of BV Neubrandenburg Franz Schkopik and in November 1954 he was released from the MfS at his own request. He was initially head of department at the council of the district in Neustrelitz, in 1955 deputy chairman of the council of the Templin district and in 1956 department head at the council of the Bernau district . In 1960 he became an employee of the management department at the trade union college "Fritz Heckert" in Bernau. Horn was released in 1961 and lived as a pensioner in Bernau. Here he was active as a member of the district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters .

Horn died in Bernau at the age of 73. His funeral took place in the Berlin-Baumschulenweg crematorium with the participation of the former interbrigadists Kurt Höfer and Ernst Scholz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memories of Richard Horn in the BstU archive
  2. ↑ List of proposals for the award of the Patriotic Order of Merit in Protocol No. 21/55 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on April 26, 1955 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/2/418.
  3. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from November 15, 1977, p. 8 and thanks in ND from December 15, 1977, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German interbrigadist and lieutenant colonel of the Ministry for State Security
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienthal
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1977
Place of death Bernau