Rudolf noon
Rudolf Mittag (born March 31, 1929 in Kamenz ; † June 19, 2012 in Großröhrsdorf ) was a German lieutenant general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and for many years head of the Rostock district administration of the MfS.
Life
The son of an entrepreneur and a housewife attended elementary school and commercial school and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1945 .
In 1945 he first worked as a forest and unskilled worker and then began a commercial apprenticeship . In 1946 he joined the Communist Party of Germany and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in April 1946 . In 1947 he became a member of the German People's Police (VP) and began as an administrative clerk in the VP district office in Kamenz. He came to the K 5 (political police) and in 1949 to the Kamenz office of the Administration for the Protection of the Economy of Saxony, which was transformed into the administration of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in February 1950. In the same year he joined Department IV (counter-espionage) and worked from 1951 to 1955 in the offices of Breitenbrunn , Schwarzenberg and Oberschlema of the Wismut property management of the MfS. 1954 to 1955 he attended a qualification course at the MfS school in Eberswalde. In 1955 he became head of the Oberschlema office and in 1959 head of the Aue office . From 1960 to 1965 he completed his studies at the University of the Ministry of State Security , graduating with a diploma lawyer . In 1962 he became the deputy operational manager and in 1970 head of the Wismut property management of the MfS. As the successor to Major General Alfred Kraus , he finally became head of the Rostock district administration of the MfS in 1975 and a member of the SED district leadership in March 1976. In 1989 he was promoted to lieutenant general. After the district administration of the MfS was reorganized into a district office for national security in November 1989, he initially retained the function of head of the district office. When the office was filled by representatives of the citizens' movement on December 4, 1989, he was briefly arrested on suspicion of the destruction of evidence and on leave on December 6, 1989. He was released from service in January 1990.
Awards
- 1985 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Noon, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 237, online version .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostsee-Zeitung of March 29, 1976.
- ^ Roland Hartig: Chronicle of the turning point in Rostock. March 10, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noon, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lieutenant General of the Ministry for State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2012 |
| Place of death | Großröhrsdorf |