Wolfgang Eberhardt

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Wolfgang Eberhardt (born May 12, 1928 in Neuhaus am Rennweg ; † June 30, 2020 ) was a colonel and headmaster in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was a teacher at the University of the Ministry for State Security (JHS) in Potsdam and head of the MfS school in Gransee .

Life

Eberhardt, son of a glass blower , learned the trade of toolmaker after elementary school in 1943/44 . In 1944 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1945 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and fought as a member of the Air Force in World War II . After the end of the war until September 1945 he was a US prisoner of war .

Eberhardt continued his training until 1947 and then worked as a toolmaker. In 1949 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

In 1952 Eberhardt was employed by the MfS's Sonneberg district office . In the same year he moved to the Neuhaus district office and in 1953 to the personal protection department of the Suhl district administration . In 1954/55 he completed a course at the technical college of the MfS in Eberswalde and then became a teacher at the university of the MfS (JHS) in Potsdam-Eiche . After further stints at the MfS school in Eberswalde and the technical school in Teterow , he became head of the Gransee school in 1962.

From 1962 to 1968 Eberhardt completed a distance learning course at the JHS and became a qualified lawyer . In 1977 he was promoted to colonel. After the reunification and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Eberhardt was dismissed from service in 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice , in: Märkische Oderzeitung from July 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Eberhardt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus am Rennweg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2020