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	Wilhelm Zaisser at AllExperts
		Wilhelm Zaisser (June 20, 1893-March 3, 1958) was head of the East German Ministry for State Security or Stasi from 1950 to 1953.
		Throughout the 1920s, Zaisser was a military-political leader and instructor for the KPD in such areas as the Rhine, Westphalia, and Berlin.
		Zaisser quickly achieved the rank of brigadier general and in 1937, he became leader of all the pro-Republican international forces operating in Spain.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/wilhelm_zaisser.htm (778 words)

	Stasi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It was modeled on the Soviet MGB, and was regarded by the Soviets as an extremely loyal and effective partner.
		Wilhelm Zaisser was the first Minister of State Security of the GDR, and Erich Mielke his deputy.
		Zaisser was removed by Walter Ulbricht, the leader of East Germany, in 1953 and replaced by Ernst Wollweber.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Stasi (1546 words)

	Biographie: Wilhelm Zaisser, 1893-1958
		Juni: Wilhelm Zaisser wird in Rotthausen bei Gelsenkirchen als Sohn eines Gendarmeriewachtmeisters geboren.
		Zaisser ist Lehrer und stellvertretender Leiter der Militärpolitischen Schule in Bakowka bei Moskau.
		Hintergrund ist die schon länger bestehende Rivalität zwischen Zaisser und Walter Ulbricht sowie der laut Ulbricht ungenügende Einsatz der staatlichen Machtmittel der DDR beim Aufstand vom 17.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/ZaisserWilhelm (485 words)

	Wilhelm Zaisser Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
		Eine Übersicht der Artikel, die mit dem Thema Wilhelm Zaisser verwandt sind finden Sie auf der Seite alle Artikel über Wilhelm Zaisser.
		Wilhelm Zaisser (* 20.06 1893 in Rotthausen bei Gelsenkirchen † 3.03 1958) war Funktionär in der KPD und der KPdSU, Spanienkämpfer und Minister für Staatssicherheit in der DDR.
		Die PDS rehabilitierte Wilhelm Zaisser am 25.04 1993.
	wilhelm_zaisser.know-library.net (835 words)

	Chronology of Germany
		Wilhelm Pieck (1876-1960) was elected president of the GDR.
		Wilhelm Zaisser (1893-1958), a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, was appointed head of the new Ministry of State Security (MfS).
		At the 4th SED Party Congress, President Wilhelm Pieck announced a purge of Titoists (party members who sympathized with Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito's brand of communism).~~~ The gap in living standards with those of the FRG was becoming painfully apparent.
	www.studybuddy.nl /english/contentdui.html (13979 words)

	Wilhelm Zaisser
		1916 nimmt Zaisser an Verbruederungsaktionen mit Rotarmisten in der Ukraine teil.
		Juli: Zaisser wird wegen "parteifeindlicher fraktioneller Taetigkeit" aus dem Politbuero und dem ZK der SED entlassen und seines Ministeramtes enthoben.
		Hintergrund ist die schon laenger bestehende Rivalitaet zwischen Zaisser und Walter Ulbricht sowie der laut Ulbricht ungenuegende Einsatz der staatlichen Machtmittel der DDR beim Aufstand vom 17.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~andeliis/Stasi/WilhelmZaisser.html (475 words)

	Wilhelm Zaisser - Alle Artikel über Wilhelm Zaisser
		Wilhelm Zaisser - Alle Artikel über Wilhelm Zaisser
		Noch weiter unten befinden sich Verweise zu den Beschreibungen, in welchen das Thema Wilhelm Zaisser angesprochen wird.
		Beschreibungen, in welchen das Thema Wilhelm Zaisser angesprochen wird, aber nicht direkt behandelt.
	www.know-library.net /alle_artikel_Wilhelm_Zaisser.php (453 words)

	JCWS 5:2 \| "The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany: Stasi Operations and Threat Perceptions, 1945-1953" ...
		In December 1951 Zaisser expressed concern that the department had still not been formed in all Länder, and he demanded that the situation be remedied immediately.
		Zaisser was accused of ineffective leadership of the MfS, resulting in the organizations's inability to uncover the internal organizers of the "fascist putsch" of 17 June, as the SED characterized the uprising.
		Ulbricht's accusation that Zaisser had failed to foresee the "fascist putsch" was a convenient pretext for Ulbricht to remove a political rival who had been a persistent critic of his hard-line policies.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~hpcws/bruce.htm (12846 words)

	Dissolution
		Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl remained joint chairmen, but the dour organizational adept, Walter Ulbricht, took over as general secretary of the ZK.
		For an interval in 1990, the former ZK building--drab and gray labyrinth originally constructed for the Reichsbank--served as the "Parliamentarians' House." It provided office space for the transitional, freely elected Volkskammer of the vanishing GDR, and is slated now to house the Foreign Ministry.
		Although a criminal trial was avoided in favor of an internal party inquest, Herrnstadt and Zaisser were removed from their offices and vilified as alleged "capitulators" to imperialism, and as members of a pro-Beria faction.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/maier-dissolution.html (8029 words)

	Wilhelm Zaisser: Viele Informationen uber Wilhelm Zaisser an omega.it
		Wilhelm Zaisser: Viele Informationen uber Wilhelm Zaisser an omega.it
		1932 wurde Zaisser Mitglied der KPdSU(B) und ab jenem Jahr bis 1936 leitete er die Militärpolitische Schule in Babowka bei Moskau.
		März 1958 gab es keine offizielle Reaktion von Seiten der Partei.
	www.omega.it /w/wi/wilhelm_zaisser.html (369 words)

	The Uprising of June 17, 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On June 3 the Soviet politburo, though itself divided, made it clear that it was watching event in the GDR with concern.
		In the SED leadership Wilhelm Zaisser, the Minister for State Security, and Rudolf Herrnstadt, the chief editor of Neues Deutschland, were organizing against Ulbricht.
		Zaisser and Hernstadt were apparently backed by Malenkov and Beria in Moscow.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/38uprising.html (5192 words)

	Johnsons JAHRESTAGE - Der Kommentar - 11.04.1968
		In Güstrow war die kampflose Übergabe vor allem Wilhelm Beltz zu verdanken, der bis 1938 Direktor des Güstrower Arbeitsamtes war und zum Gördeler-Kreis gehörte.
		Da der Kommandant Güstrow »bis zur letzten Patrone« verteidigen wollte, nahm Beltz, um die Zerstörung der Stadt zu verhindern, telefonisch Kontakt mit der Roten Armee auf und ging ihr dann allein mit der Ukrainerin Slata Kriwussjawa als Dolmetscherin bis Plaaz entgegen.
		Tagung des ZK der SED am 2.1.1952 erhielt Else Zaisser den Auftrag, mit einem Autorenkollektiv in zwei Jahren die dt.
	www.ndl.germanistik.phil.uni-erlangen.de /extras/johnkomm/6804/680411.html (1298 words)

	The Rise of Khrushchev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On July 10 it was announced that Beria, who had identified himself most clearly with the new measures and in particular with legal as distinct from economic changes, had been arrested.
		His appointee as East German police chief, Wilhelm Zaisser, and many of his Soviet henchmen were also purged.
		It is impossible to know what his plans actually were, but the sequence of events clearly suggests that he was made the scapegoat for the East Berlin uprising.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/43risekhrush.html (2044 words)

	GERM 22034: History of the German Democratic Republic - Week Three materials
		Wilhelm Pieck (KPD, then SED) is elected President of the GDR by the provisorische Volkskammer, and Otto Grotewohl (SPD, SED) the first Ministerpräsident.
		Rudolf Herrnstadt (editor of Neues Deutschland), Max Fechner (Justice minister) and Wilhelm Zaisser (MfS minister) are removed from their posts and the party leadership
		Wilhelm Pieck dies; a Staatsrat is formed as a collective head of state under Ulbricht as Vorsitzender (law of 12 September)
	mail.bris.ac.uk /~gemaa/22034/week3.html (947 words)

	East Germany - Foundation of the People's Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the same time, the first steps toward producing a reliable and professional cadre were taken by establishing the Main Administration of Training.
		The first training courses, run in 1949, were directed by such venerable communists as General Wilhelm Zaisser, the renowned "General Gomez" of the Spanish Civil War, and his deputy, the Soviet-trained general Heinz Hoffmann.
		Hoffmann later became minister of defense, commander of the National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee--NVA), and a member of the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands--SED), positions he continued to hold until his death in 1985.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-5147.html (877 words)

	\| TIME
		Wilhelm Zaisser, 65, German Communist organizer who, as "General Gomez," was supreme commander of all the International Brigades in the Spanish civil war; of unspecified illness, after "severe suffering"; in East Berlin.
		Zaisser, who went to Moscow when it was clear that Franco would win in Spain, went back to his own country after World War II, organized and became the boss of the East German People's Police, was fired after the explosive anti-Communist rebellion of 1953.
		His frail, fast-living heroine, whose stockings were rolled above the knee and below the hem, carried pocket flask and outsize cigarette holder, appropriately illustrated the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,863200,00.html (564 words)

	Stasi
		The first Minister of the MfS is Wilhelm Zaisser, formerly the Minister of the Interior in Saxony.
		June 17, 1953 Zaisser is forced by the SED leadership to resign (Zaisser-Hernnstadt incident).
		The MfS is downgraded to the State Secretariat of Security, and is incorporated into the Ministry of the Interior, under the direction of Minister Willi Stoph.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/riley/787/DDR/Famous/Stasi.html (818 words)

	East Germany: The Stasi and De-Stasification Demokratizatsiya - Find Articles
		In reality, however, it operated independently under Soviet supervision; the subterfuge was necessary because the rules of the Allied Control Commission for Germany forbade the reestablishment of a German political police.
		Wilhelm Zaisser, a veteran German operative for Soviet military intelligence (GRU) and a former commander of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, was named as its head.
		Erich Mielke, another long-time Communist agent of the Soviet security services, became Zaisser's deputy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200407/ai_n9409113 (823 words)

	Jim Dankiewicz: Int'l Effects of June 17, 1953 Uprising
		In doing so he certainly aided his chances, because the leaders in Moscow had repeatedly demonstrated they did not like insubordination, which Ulbricht was showing in his prior refusal to support the new line.
		What sealed his victory over Zaisser and Herrnstadt more than anything else, however, was Beria's removal from power in Moscow shortly after the uprising.
		This situation will be examined later, but with his removal, Zaisser and Herrnstadt lost their main supporter in the Kremlin, and the remaining Soviet leaders chose to support Ulbricht.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p-99/jim1953.993.htm (4813 words)

	ddr-info1
		Wilhelm Pieck is elected president of the GDR by a joint session of the two chambers.
		itis headed by Wilhelm Zaisser, chief of the Volkspolizei(People’s police).
		The German Democratic Republic’s elections on that day are preceded by warnings in Neues Deutschland two days before that those who do not vote for the National Front may be exposed as opponents of ‘peace, German unity and the welfare of the people’.
	users.skynet.be /coggew/ddr-info1.htm (690 words)

	The Early Years of East Germany - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To assist SMAD in enforcing their new rules and policies were the German Communists who had been living or fighting for the Soviets during World War II.
		An interesting note is that the training courses for the Alert Police units were being run by Wilhelm Zaisser and Heinz Hoffmann.
		By February 1950, Wilhelm Zaisser would become the MfS Minister and Heinz Hoffmann would take control of the training courses.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=131000 (3377 words)

	Liddell Hart 9 Military writings; books, 1925-1970
		German Maj Wilhelm Busch, correspondence with Liddell Hart including an outline of his career and list of translations done for Liddell Hart, including letter by prisoner Herbert Köstlin; also correspondence with Patricia Busch, wife of Busch; M A Schick, of E S Mittler and Sohn; E Bloomfield and Capt Lancelot Dykes Spicer.
		German Gen Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, General of tank troops, interview transcripts and notes relating to his service in German high command in World War Two, including statements by Von Thoma in German with English translation.
		German FM Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb; case before American Military Tribunal 5 at Nuremberg; official documents including opening statement and final plea by Leeb's defence counsel, Dr Hans Laternser.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/cats/liddell/li0924.shtml (4186 words)

	The lexicon of the Stasi
		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 Ernst Wollweber (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.
	www.intellectbooks.com /europa/number7/lexicon.htm (5276 words)

	The Ministry for State Security founded (February 1950) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		Since the MfS has to answer only to the leadership of the SED, it is characterized figuratively as the „shield and sword of the Party“.
		Wilhelm Zaisser is appointed first Minister for State Security, and Erich Mielke becomes his assistant.
		In 1990, the GDR’s final year, the Stasi will employ 91,000 permanent employees as well as 180,000 informers, so-called IMs (unofficial associates).
	www.willy-brandt.de /bwbs_biografie/The_Ministry_for_State_Security_founded_B1183.html (204 words)

	Erich Mielke
		Together with Wilhelm Zaisser, he establishes the department "K 5," a forerunner to the Ministry for State Security (MfS).
		Advancement to the vice-presidency of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI), which is created by the order of the Soviet Military Administration in East Germany in July 1946.
		ielke is State Secretary of the MfS, which Wilhelm Zaisser presides over as Minister.
	members.fortunecity.com /stalinmao/DDR/Mielke/mielke.html (629 words)

	Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Consequences: the GDR regime cracks down
		By 1954, the majority of district secretaries and district leadership members have been replaced.
		State Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, and the chief editor of "Neues Deutschland", Rudolf Herrnstadt, are defeated in an internal power struggle with SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.
		Before the uprising, Ulbricht was sharply criticized by Moscow for his hard line, but as a guarantor of stability he now enjoys the Kremlin's backing again.
	www.hdg.de /index.php?id=1671?&L=1 (568 words)

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		Nicht zu vergessen ist die Fritjovstatue, errichtet von Kaiser Wilhelm dem Zweiten.
		Mitten in dem von feindlichen Truppen besetzten Land herrscht der tyrannische Landvogt Gessler der zu immer grausameren Mitteln greift um denWiderstand der rebellischen Bevölkerung zu brechen.
	versorgungszentrum-gelsenkirchen.de /index.php/Wilhelm_Zaisser (5091 words)

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