Rudi Mittig

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Rudi Mittig (born January 26, 1925 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia , † August 28, 1994 in Berlin ) was Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR from 1975 to 1989 and a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1986 to 1989 .

Life

Mittel was born in Reichenberg in 1925. His father was a lemonade factory owner , his mother a housewife. After completing secondary school, Mittig attended engineering school from 1939 to 1942 and learned to be a bricklayer . In 1943 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later into the Wehrmacht . Between 1945 and 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war and attended the Antifa school there from 1948 .

In 1950 he returned to the engineering school and graduated as an engineer for structural engineering . In 1950, Mittig joined the SED . Between 1950 and 1952 he worked as a structural engineer before he found a job at the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in 1952 . There he initially worked in Department III (Securing the National Economy) of the district administration (BV) Potsdam , whose management he took over from 1953. In 1954 he was appointed Deputy Operations Manager of the BV Potsdam. A year later, he was promoted to head of BV Potsdam. With a temporary replacement by Herbert Kittelmann from 1958 to 1960, he held this position until 1963. From 1956 to 1963, Mittig was also a member of the SED district leadership in Potsdam. In September 1963 he took over the management of the main department (HA) XVIII (economics) of the MfS in Berlin. He completed an external course of study at the University of the Ministry for State Security , which he began in 1966, with a degree in law. On September 26, 1969, he was appointed major general. In 1975, Mittig took over the post of Deputy Minister for State Security from Fritz Schröder , whom he had represented since January 1974 for health reasons. In the same year he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1976 he became a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED, and in 1986 a full member. In February 1987 he was promoted to Colonel General. This made him one of the highest-ranking officers in the MfS. In the course of the peaceful revolution , Mittig was released from his position in December 1989 and dismissed in January 1990. Mittig lived in Berlin until his death.

Representative area in the middle of the MfS

Within the MfS, the following areas were subordinate to the center

  • Rear Services Management (VRD)
  • Department XVIII (Securing the National Economy)
  • Main Department XIX (Transport, Postal and Communications)
  • Department XX (state apparatus, culture, church, underground)
  • Central Working Group on Secrecy Protection (ZAGG)
  • Working group in the area of commercial coordination (AG BKK)
  • Central Operational Staff (ZOS)
  • Working group E (AG E)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200702/http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Wissen/Bildung/Downloads/Schulmappe_Region_Potsdam.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
  2. ^ New Germany of September 27, 1969
personal data
SURNAME In the middle, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR and member of the Central Committee of the SED
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Liberec , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1994
Place of death Berlin