Werner Hennig (MfS employee)

Werner Hennig (born August 23, 1928 in Kleinforst , Oschatz district ; † February 9, 1999 in Berlin ) was major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and from 1974 to 1990 head of the finance department of the MfS.

Life

Werner Hennig was born the son of a worker and after attending elementary school in 1943/44 began a commercial apprenticeship before he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1944 and into the Wehrmacht in 1945 . He was taken prisoner in Czechoslovakia and in the Soviet Union .

In 1946 he joined the KPD and the SED . He was initially a technical employee at the local or district executive of the KPD, then in the SED district leadership in Oschatz and was hired in 1949 in the administration for the protection of the national economy in Saxony . The administration for the protection of the national economy became in 1950 the state administration of the Ministry for State Security. He worked there in the Oschatz office. In 1951 he was transferred to the Department of Administration and Economics at the MfS in Berlin , where he moved to the Finance Department of the Ministry for State Security in 1952 . In 1954 he became deputy head of the finance department. From 1957 to 1960 he completed a correspondence course at the financial evening school with the Magistrate of Greater Berlin and from 1961 to 1965 at the technical college for finance in Gotha with a degree as a financial economist. In 1974 he was appointed head of the finance department at the MfS and in 1983 major general. In 1988 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. After the dissolution of the Stasi in 1990, he was dismissed from the service.

literature

• Jens Gieseke : Werner Hennig . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 KB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 30.
• Jens Gieseke:  Hennig, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .