Werner Bierbaum

Werner Bierbaum (born June 17, 1928 in Chemnitz ) is a German former colonel and department head in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR .

Life

Bierbaum, son of a locksmith and a seamstress , was drafted into the German armed forces in 1944 and fought as an air force helper in World War II until the end of the war in 1945 . In 1946 he joined the SED . After graduating from high school in 1947, he studied economics at the University of Leipzig until 1950 .

From 1950 to 1952 Bierbaum worked as a statistician and was then hired as an "operational employee" of Main Department III of the MfS, responsible for economics, and in 1952 transferred to the district administration of Dresden , later Karl-Marx-Stadt .

In 1954 Bierbaum moved to the headquarters of Main Department III in East Berlin . In 1956 he was transferred to the main intelligence department (HVA) and was employed in military espionage . From 1958 he worked in the “Evaluation and Information” department.

In 1967 Bierbaum received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin and was promoted to colonel in 1976. From 1983 until his dismissal in the course of the political change and peaceful revolution in the GDR and the dissolution of the Stasi in 1990, Bierbaum was head of the “Evaluation and Information” department of the HVA.

literature

• Jens Gieseke :  Bierbaum, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. 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 .