Rudolf Bartonek
Rudolf Bartonek (born July 12, 1911 in Grünbach , Upper Austria ; † January 13, 1981 in East Berlin ) was an Austro-German headmaster of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR .
Life
After primary school , the son of a miner Rudolf Bartonek also became a miner in 1925 and joined the KPÖ in 1928 . In 1933 he was head of a KPÖ district association in Burgenland . After the outbreak of World War II Bartonek was arrested and to 15 years in prison convicted. Until the end of the war he was imprisoned in Garst, in the concentration camps KZ Börgermoor , KZ Esterwegen and in Zwickau .
After the end of the war, Bartonek settled in Germany's Soviet zone of occupation , joined the KPD and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, became a member of the SED in 1946 . In 1945 he was district chairman of the FDJ in Zwickau and a teacher at the FDJ school in Hartenstein . In 1947 Bartonek became head of the youth welfare office , in 1949 city councilor for public education in Zwickau, in August 1950 head of the state sports committee of Saxony (successor to Gerhard Wenzel). In 1950/51 he was a member of the SED and FDJ regional leaderships in Saxony. In 1950/51 he completed a course at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow .
In 1952 Bartonek became secretary of the SED district leadership in Zwickau and in the same year an employee of the GDR's foreign policy intelligence service (APN). From 1953 he headed the main department XV there. In 1953 he was head of an operational department for special tasks and in 1954 became a lieutenant colonel. In 1955 he was additionally head of the school of the main intelligence administration of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). From 1956 Bartonek was party secretary and employee of the main administration A of the MfS. In 1964 he became deputy head of Department XII (Central Information and Storage) and was head of the archive. In 1971 Bartonek retired and lived in Berlin.
Bartonek was buried in the VdN facility in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .
Awards
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Rudolf Bartonek . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Manfred Wilke (ed.): Anatomy of the party headquarters . Studies by the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin. Akademieverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003220-0 .
- Jens Gieseke : Rudolf Bartonek . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 11.
Web links
- Rudolf Bartonek Short biography at VVN-BdA Köpenick
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Köpenick in Neues Deutschland from February 4, 1981
- ↑ Neue Zeit from August 3, 1950
- ↑ http://sozialistenfriedhof.de/70.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bartonek, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German headmaster of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünbach , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1981 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |