Wilfried Müller (Major General)
Wilfried Müller (born May 8, 1931 in Magdeburg ; † November 15, 1993 ) was a German major general of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR and head of the Magdeburg district administration of the MfS.
Life
The son of a shoemaker completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in the Grusonwerk Magdeburg after attending primary school in 1945 . From 1948 he worked as a company electrician in the same plant, which in 1946 was renamed Maschinenfabrik Krupp-Gruson of the Soviet mechanical engineering company . In 1949 he became a member of the SED . On June 12, 1952, he became an employee of the MfS and began his service in Department VIII (observation / investigation) of the Magdeburg district office. In 1954 he was transferred to the Magdeburg district administration, Department V (state apparatus, culture, churches, underground). In 1955 he became head of Department VII (Defense DVP). In 1958/59 he attended the district party school and from 1964 to 1966 took part in a three-year course at the Potsdam-Eiche Law School , where he graduated as a lawyer. In 1967 he became the deputy operational manager and in March 1977 head of the Magdeburg district administration of the MfS (successor to Colonel Heinz Kühne). From February 1979 to December 1989 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg. In 1981 he was appointed major general. After the district administration of the MfS was reorganized in December 1989 into a district office for national security, he remained head of this district office until January 1990 and was dismissed from service at the end of January 1990.
On January 4, 1993, he was sentenced by the Magdeburg Regional Court to imprisonment of two years and three months for presuming state powers, breach of custody and aiding and abetting embezzlement . The sentence has been suspended. He died of a heart attack in 1993 shortly after prosecutors told him they were investigating him for abduction.
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Wilfried Müller . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 KB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998
- Jens Gieseke: Müller, Wilfried . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- 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. 240, online version .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Volksstimme of January 5, 1993
- ↑ Horst Ohligschläger: GDR CRIME: “In the end nothing remains”. In: Focus Online . April 3, 1995. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general (MfS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1993 |