Willi Nyffenegger

Willi Nyffenegger (born June 9, 1924 in Klein-Schwarzsee , Pomerania ) is a former German police officer. From 1971 to 1989, most recently in the rank of lieutenant general , he was chief of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) in Dresden .

Career

After attending primary school, Nyffenegger trained as an electrical engineer and initially worked in the profession.

After doing military service in the Wehrmacht , he joined the German People's Police in Mecklenburg in July 1945 after the end of World War II , and later joined the SED. He was initially deputy head of the police force at the state police authority in Schwerin, from 1952, when the districts were formed in the GDR, deputy general to the head of the BDVP Neubrandenburg , and from 1960 to 1962 as colonel of the VP head of the BDVP Rostock . In 1963 Nyffenegger was transferred to Dresden, where he became first deputy to the head of the BDVP and in 1971 its boss. He graduated with a degree in political science. In 1974 he was appointed major general by Erich Honecker and promoted to lieutenant general in 1986. Nyffenegger was also a member of the SED district leadership and member of the District Day Dresden.

On October 4, 1989, as the head of operations in charge and a member of the district operations command under the direction of 1st SED District Secretary Hans Modrow, he gave the order for the violent suppression of the protests at Dresden Central Station with water cannons and tear gas. On October 13, 1989, Nyffenegger presented the district operations command with a secret plan for the "prevention, investigation and prevention of acts of hostile-negative forces", which provided for the intervention of the National People's Army with the keyword Badofen . After the political change, Nyffenegger was deposed as head of the BDVP at the end of December 1989 and replaced by Colonel Gerd Wülfing .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1976) and gold (1984)
• Order Banner of Labor (1989)

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• Walter Süss: State security at the end. P. 253.
• Michael Richter, Erich Sobeslavsky, Karin Ulrich: The group of 20. S. 20.
• Willi Hellmann: My first life. A VP general remembers. P. 99.
• Password bath stove - How Hans Modrow had the opposition suppressed in Dresden . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1993, p. 44 ( online ).
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 246.