Obituary: Erich Mielke--the career of a German Stalinist(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernst Thaelmann also ascended to the top leadership of the party for the first time.
Ernst Thaelmann only joined the KPD in December 1920 with the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD.) He had made his name as a militant trade unionist and prominent member of the SPD, which he had joined in 1903 in Hamburg.
Zaisser's place was first taken by ErnstWollweber, a man with a long history in the communist movement and someone who had proved himself in the German underground against the Nazis.
TIME.com: The Apparatus -- Jul 9, 1951 -- Page 1(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Actually, ErnstWollweber is boss of an enterprise called the Wollweber Apparatus, which channels illegal trade in strategic supplies to the Communists.
McCloy was sure that most of the smuggling and tricks for getting around the trade bans were the work of professional operators financed by "Communist agents who are throwing a good bit of gold around." Most formidable of all the professionals are ErnstWollweber and the trained, dedicated underground men of his apparatus.
It was Stoker Wollweber who gave the mutiny signal to the Helgoland's crew.
This normalization of relations was a prerequisite for admission to the United Nations of the two Germanies, in September.~~~ Towards the end of the year the stabilization programs that had been introduced earlier in the year had to be adjusted because economic growth had slowed down too much.
Ernst Zimmermann, Chairman of the Board of the giant MTU firm, was killed in an RAF attack (January 20).~~~ The number of unemployed hit 9% of the working population, a new record.
At the beginning of November, a big fire in the Sandoz chemical plant in Basle (Switzerland) caused a serious pollution of the Rhine River.~~~ Ernst Ruska (1906-1988) and his collaborator Gerd Binnig (*1947) were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Osvald's operation is said to be a continuation of the "Wollweber -organization" in Norway which was in operation before the War.
ErnstWollweber was a member of the German Communist Party, however, he served Soviet in building up sabotage groups all over Europe targeting the shipping industry.
Their were several rumours about sabotage against Norwegian ships and some ship accidents have been investigated by the surveillance police but nothing has been proved to public knowledge.
Wollweber, as secretary for state security, was aware of the deficiencies in the informant pool.
In this speech ErnstWollweber, the head of state security from 1953 to 1957, noted with delight that the number of informants from the population had increased dramatically by 1955.
Ernst Tillich, the leader of the KgU from 1951, was expelled from the SPD in 1952 for his activities in trying to undermine the GDR.
Weber, Ernst (Heinrich) (1795-1878) Physiologist, born in Wittenberg, EC Germany...
Webern, Anton (Friedrich Ernst von) (1883-1945) Composer, born in Vienna, Austria.
Wollweber, Ernst Friedrich (1898-1967) German politician, born in Hannover Münden, Germany.
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Polish diplomat J. Burgin told East German Secretary of Security ErnstWollweber that the Polish government had not been well informed about the events of June 17, or about the SED's recent...
In September 1954, when his Groaktionen were doing serious damage to Western agent networks, ErnstWollweber, East Germany's state security chief, explained to the SEDCentral Committee why the Org needed special treatment.
Scandinavia, to have sunk seventeen ships carrying arms to Franco." One of the leading saboteurs was a young German Communist, ErnstWollweber, who twenty years later was to become head of the Stasi in East Germany." An NKVD inquiry after the Civil...
Mike Jones on Danish Trotskyism, especially Trolle(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
His downfall came through his old arch-enemy ErnstWollweber in connection with the affair of the sabotaged Spanish trawlers.
He was arrested in 1938 but was only sentenced to a year and a half in prison and was released after a few months owing to German government pressure.
Some were Brandlerites while others had been part of the Centre but broke with Ernst Meyer, Ewert, Eisler and the others because they agreed to condemn ‘rightism’ when the danger was from ultra-leftism.
As the tide turned against the Nazis in World War II, the Stalinists in the USSR assembled a group of German Communist survivors and orphans of the purges, who went back to East Germany with the Soviet troops.
People such as the courageous seamen's underground leader ErnstWollweber also went back to East Germany.
ErnstWollweber, by then chief of police in East Germany, and other East German Communist leaders who to a greater or lesser extent sided with the workers' uprisings, were later systematically purged from the Stalinist apparatus.
Erich Mielke - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
May 2000 in Berlin) was after the resignation ErnstWollwebers starting from 1957 Ministers for public security of the GDR and thus one of the chief executives for the development of the surface covering monitor in the GDR.
From 1953 to 1989 Mielke was besides a chairman of the sport combination direct current generator.
After the rebellion from 17 June 1953 Zaisser was set off and ErnstWollweber of new leaders.
As a result the organisation was reconstituted and, from the late 1950s, began to develop the vast apparatus that eventually monitored factories and industries, schools, colleges and universities, churches,dissident groups, east-west contacts, artistic circles - indeed as much of the population as possible by whatever means possible (informants, telephone tapping, opening post, electronic surveillance, etc).
Before Mielke took over in 1957 the Ministers responsible for the Stasi were Wilhelm Zaisser (1950-53) and ErnstWollweber (1953-57).
Both were driven from their positions through internal party purges and it was under Mielke that the organisation began its long period of sustained expansion.
The attendance at the Wolf funeral of WASG Chairman Klaus Ernst, alongside Bisky and Modrow, makes clear that this organisation has no problem paying tribute to a man who played a crucial role in creating one of the most repressive state police forces in the world.
Markus Wolf came from a cultivated Jewish family which was radicalised by the events in Germany in the first third of the twentieth century and turned to communism.
In 1957, Wollweber was replaced by his deputy, Erich Mielke, who went on to run the Stasi until the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic.
"Aufklärung und Abwehr: The Lasting Legacy of the Stasi under ErnstWollweber." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 3 (Jun. 2006): 364-393.
Wollweber headed the Stasi during the "decisive years" of 1953-1957.
The author concludes that "[a]s early as the 1950s, we see that the foreign espionage branch of the Stasi was so tightly integrated into domestic surveillance and the regional structures of the Stasi that it was not as 'ordinary' an intelligence gathering branch as its former officers would have us believe."
Three almost forgotten (communist) espionage chiefs are portrayed in the book, as are three early West German spymasters - Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz, Fritz Tejessy and Gerhard Wessel.
Another rarely remembered post-war spy chief is ErnstWollweber (1898-1967).
He championed communism all his life, and in the 1930s and early 40s courageously fought the Nazis, planning and executing daring dockyard sabotage actions in Holland, Germany and Scandinavia.
To do this, former Nazi general and CIA operative general Reinhard Gehlen recruited a bevy of Nazi war criminals, under the direction of SS colonel Otto Skorzeny--a favorite of Hitler’s and a leader of the ODESSA, the post-war SS underground.
It was this concatenation that saw the genesis of Yasser Arafat as the leader of the Palestinian national movement.
In particular, [East German security official] ErnstWollweber had his eye on Bernhardt Bender, a Middle East expert who once held the rank of lieutenant colonel on Himmler’s personal staff.
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He was fed up by all claims that Germany had a destiny in the World and tried to transform Germany into an "ordinary" country in the European community.
In the former headquarters of the Luftwaffe spy chief ErnstWollweber resided under guidance of the Communist regime in East Berlin.
This red spider wove a net covering all of Europe.
The MfS becomes part of the Ministry of Interior, and Mielke acts as the Deputy State Secretary, while ErnstWollweber is called to lead the department as State Secretary.
The MfS is made into an independent Ministry of Interior with Wollweber at its head as Minister, and Mielke as the State Secretary.
