Siegfried Hähnel (General)
Siegfried Hähnel (born June 9, 1934 in Chemnitz , † August 26, 2010 in Berlin ) was in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (MfS) as major general head of the district administration (BV) Berlin.
Life
Hahnel was the son of a lathe operator. The MfS recruited him as a full-time employee in 1952 after he stopped attending a high school. He joined the SED in the same year . The MfS initially employed Hähnel in Department VIII (arrests) of the Chemnitz district administration . After a course at the school of the MfS (later Law School, JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche , he was assigned to the main department IX, the investigative department of the MfS in the central remand prison in East Berlin . During this activity, Hähnel completed a distance learning course in criminology at the technical college of the Ministry of the Interior in Aschersleben. In 1962 he became head of Department IX of the Berlin State Security Administration for Greater Berlin , which was located at the MfS remand prison in Kissingenstrasse in Berlin-Pankow . Hähnel began another correspondence course in criminology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 1966 as a qualified criminalist. In 1974 he became Deputy Operational of the Head of the State Security Administration for Greater Berlin. In 1980 he received his doctorate. jur. at JHS. Since 1986, he has been the successor to Wolfgang Schwanitz and headed the BV Berlin of the MfS, from 1987 on as major general. The Modrow government, which was formed as part of the political fall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , released Hähnel from his position in December 1989 and fired him two months later.
According to the historian Sven Felix Kellerhoff, after the fall of the Berlin Wall he was involved in the publication of several books by Edition Ost .
literature
- 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. 123, online version .
- Jens Gieseke : Hähnel, Siegfried . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- MfS-Lexion: Siegfried Hähnel
- Siegfried Hähnel - a typical Stasi career , Die Welt , September 20, 2010
- Siegfried Hähnel passed away ( memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in: Junge Welt , September 20, 2010, p. 13
Individual proof
- ^ Johannes Beleites: Department XIV: Detention (MfS manual) . BStU , Berlin 2009, pp. 26, 58; There also explanations on the administration of Greater Berlin .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahnel, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant, head of the Berlin district administration in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 2010 |
| Place of death | Berlin |