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Ernst Wollweber
State Secretary of State Security of the German Democratic Republic
In office 18 July 1953 – 24 November 1955
President
Wilhelm Pieck
Prime Minister
Otto Grotewohl
Deputy
Erich Mielke
Preceded by
Office created
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic
In office 24 November 1955 – 11 December 1957
President
Wilhelm Pieck
Prime Minister
Otto Grotewohl
Deputy
Erich Mielke
Preceded by
Wilhelm Zaisser
Succeeded by
Erich Mielke
Personal details
Born
Ernst Friedrich Wollweber
(1898-10-29)29 October 1898 Hann, Münden, Hanover, Prussia, German Empire
Died
3 May 1967(1967-05-03) (aged 68) East Berlin, East Germany
Political party
Communist Party of Germany (1919-1946) Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946-1958)
Occupation
Naval Officer, Politician
Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (29 October 1898 – 3 May 1967) was a German politician who was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister of State Security of East Germany from 1955 to 1957.[1]
^Ghouas, Nessim (2004). The Conditions, Means and Methods of the MfS in the GDR; An Analysis of the Post and Telephone Control (1st ed.). Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag. p. 80. ISBN 3-89873-988-0.
Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (29 October 1898 – 3 May 1967) was a German politician who was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister...
Army", c. 1920s. Two of its notable attendees were Wilhelm Zaisser and ErnstWollweber, who later became very influential in the intelligence activities of...
carried fellow German Communists Walter Ulbricht, Wilhelm Zaisser, ErnstWollweber, and many of the future leaders of East Germany. That same month, Mielke's...
the USSR", better known as the Wollweber League, an anti-fascist group founded in 1936 by German communist ErnstWollweber, with the support and direction...
Organization. In particular, he spied on ErnstWollweber, a Soviet sabotage expert. After the war Wollweber became a high official in the East Germany...
1953 uprising, but was instead removed by Ulbricht and replaced with ErnstWollweber thereafter. Following the June 1953 uprising, the Politbüro decided...
Maizière, (1990) Ministry of State Security (Stasi)**: Wilhelm Zaisser, ErnstWollweber, Erich Mielke, Wolfgang Schwanitz Ministry of the Interior: Karl Steinhoff...
sabotage transports to Germany. In late November 1941, Edvard Nyberg, ErnstWollweber and others produced a mine to be attached to the ore cars. Nyberg was...
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consolidated, Ulbricht suppressed critics such as Karl Schirdewan, ErnstWollweber, Fritz Selbmann, Fred Oelssner, Gerhart Ziller and others from 1957...
Grotewohl Deputy Erich Mielke Preceded by Office created Succeeded by ErnstWollweber Personal details Born Wilhelm Zaisser (1893-06-20)20 June 1893 Gelsenkirchen...
with Norway. One of these strangers Ternberg was able to identify as ErnstWollweber, the leader of an anti-fascist saboteur organization. He was arrested...
December 1958 SED Minister of State Security ErnstWollweber 19 November 1954 31 October 1957 SED ErnstWollweber 11 December 1957 7 December 1958 SED Ministry...
two liberal members, Karl Schirdewan and former Security Minister ErnstWollweber, on the same day for "violations of Party rules". The move came two...
not a lone voice. Inside the Central Committee, Karl Schirdewan and ErnstWollweber were voicing similar sentiments. Other prominent critics of the party...
Karl Schirdewan. In October 1957, Schirdewan and his fellow reformer ErnstWollweber resigned from key offices. The climax of the downfall came on 5 February...
time. Selbmann was accused of having supported the so-called Schirdewan-Wollweber-Ziller faction, at the party conference at which it became clear that...
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