Siegfried Mill

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Siegfried Mühle (born April 23, 1937 in Freital ) is a German military scientist , former employee of the military reconnaissance of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Siegfried Mühle was born into a working class family in Freital . There he attended elementary and ten-grade school. The trained radio mechanic studied electrical engineering (1953 to 1955 engineering school in Mittweida) . After joining the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic in 1957, he began studying radar technology (1958 Air Force Radio Measurement School / Air Defense in Oranienburg , 1959 to 1960 Technical School of Air Force / Air Defense in Kamenz ), graduating as an electronics engineer and being appointed subordinate . This was followed by work as a technician on a radar station for hunter management and air space observation in Zschillichau (near Bautzen ). A year later he completed a special course for the anti-aircraft missile complex S 75 and was then deployed as a missile control officer and as head of the radio engineering company (FuTK) in an anti-aircraft missile department of the air defense.

In 1965 he began studying at the Friedrich Engels Military Academy in Dresden (specializing in anti-aircraft missile troops in air defense ), which he completed in 1968 as a graduate military scientist (Dipl. Rer. Mil.). Then he was transferred to the Enlightenment Administration of the Ministry of National Defense of the German Democratic Republic . In 1971 he completed an English course ( military science ) at the NVA training institute in Naumburg . On September 30, 1990 he was released as a colonel from the National People's Army as a result of its dissolution.

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In the Enlightenment Administration (renamed to Enlightenment Division in 1984) of the Ministry of National Defense, he was responsible for more than 20 years for information on the defense technology and armaments industry of NATO member states as well as the operational expansion of the theaters of war in Central Europe and the Baltic Sea exits. Subject of this work were:

From the mid-1970s the field of activity was expanded and the processing of the means and methods of radio- electronic combat (electronic warfare) in Central Europe as well as the possibilities and technical means for waging a cosmic war through the USA were added. A few years later, other areas of work followed, such as the development of new types of weapons (radiation weapons, annihilation weapons, geophysical weapons, ethnic weapons, biological weapons, etc.).

In 1979, the Friedrich Engels Prize was awarded for excellent scientific achievements for the prognostic work on the "Development trends in armament and equipment of the NATO armed forces in the 1980s and 1990s" .

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In accordance with the provisions of the service regulations DV 010/0/009 "protection of state secrets in the National People's Army" any work that "information about the enemy" were included as classified information classified and were only a narrow circle of managers and leaders in the Ministry of National defense accessible. Some of the work was for teaching and research of the Military Academy "Friedrich Engels" , the Military Technical Institute of the NVA and the Military Science Institute of the NVA provided. All materials were printed and bound in the Enlightenment Administration's print shop in Berlin.

From 1989 to 1990, around a third of the files of the National People's Army intelligence intelligence were destroyed on the orders of the then Defense Minister of the GDR, Admiral Theodor Hoffmann, and others on the instructions of the Minister for Disarmament and Defense, Rainer Eppelmann . Only those works remained that had reached the GDR Ministry for State Security as part of the information exchange . Eppelmann later stated that his extermination order did not apply to all files, but that the subordinates carried out incorrectly. The "Enlightenment Administration" holdings of the Military Archives Department of the Federal Archives in Freiburg (Breisgau) thus comprise around 2800 volumes, which are indexed with a finding aid. More than 100 drafts by Siegfried Mühle are still available, which were blocked for 30 years. Some of them are listed in the " List of drafts by Siegfried Mühle ".

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  1. ↑ service provision DV 010/0/009 "protection of state secrets in the National People's Army", 1989 edition, VVS no. A 372 752
  2. ↑ command 1206/90 of the Minister for Disarmament and Defense on the cessation of illegal work of military intelligence, Strausberg March 16, 1990
  3. ↑ Wikipedia => Military reconnaissance of the National People's Army
  4. ↑ Bodo Wegmann: The military intelligence of the NVA. The central organization of the military reconnaissance of the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic . 2nd Edition. Köster, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89574-580-4 , p. 395
  5. ↑ Homepage DDR Lexicon => Military Intelligence Service
  6. ↑ Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg (Breisgau), "Finding aid Ministry for National Defense / Sub-inventory Administration Enlightenment, Introduction"
  7. ↑ Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg (Breisgau), "Finding aid Ministry for National Defense / Sub-inventory Administration Enlightenment, DVW 1, 1951-1991"
personal data
SURNAME Mill, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Freital