Werner Prosetzky

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Werner Prosetzky (born September 21, 1929 in Friedrichsthal ; † December 24, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German full-time employee in the foreign intelligence service of the GDR State Security . He was deputy to the head of the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA).

Life

The son of a worker and a seamstress attended elementary school and business school. From 1945 he worked as an employee of the Friedrichsthal community council. He joined the FDJ and the SED in 1947 . Prosetzky became an employee of the FDJ district leadership in Bernau in 1949 and of the FDJ district leadership in Belzig in 1950 . In 1952 he attended the SED state party school in Schmerwitz near Wiesenburg / Mark .

In 1953 he was employed by the Ministry of State Security. He began his service in the XV main department . From 1954 he was deputy head of department there. From January 1959 to 1971 he was the deputy head of Department III. As a lieutenant colonel, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1966 . From 1969 to 1972 he completed a correspondence course at the Law School in Potsdam-Eiche with a degree in law . From 1971 to August 1983, he succeeded Horst Jänicke as head of department III (legally covered residencies). In 1983 he was promoted to deputy head of the HVA. Departments III (legal residencies, advisers for third world countries) and XIX (training) as well as the Gosen school were part of his service area . Prosetzky was appointed major general in 1984 by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Erich Honecker . He was also awarded the Scharnhorst Order . After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR he was released in March 1990.

He was a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR). He last lived in Berlin-Mitte and died at the age of 75.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1966, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Obituary in ISORaktuell , No. 2/2005.
personal data
SURNAME Prosetzky, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German full-time employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsthal
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2004
Place of death Berlin