Amt für Nationale Sicherheit

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The Amt für Nationale Sicherheit was the short-lived successor organization to East Germany’s notorious Stasi secret police, created during the country’s political upheaval in 1989 before being quickly dissolved.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government security agency
intelligence agency
characterizedAs short-lived successor to the Stasi
country East Germany
surface form: German Democratic Republic
createdDuring Peaceful Revolution
surface form: Peaceful Revolution in East Germany

Wende in East Germany
dissolved 1990
early 1990
followedBy Amt für Nationale Sicherheit self-linksurface differs
surface form: Auflösung der Staatssicherheit
hasRole domestic intelligence
foreign intelligence
state security
headquarters Berlin
historicalContext collapse of the socialist regime in East Germany
historicalPeriod late Cold War
inception 1989
jurisdiction East Germany
surface form: German Democratic Republic
languageOfWorkOrName German
locatedIn East Berlin
notableFor attempted reform of East German state security apparatus
very short existence
operatedIn East Germany
opposedBy East German opposition groups
surface form: East German civil rights movement

citizens’ committees in East Germany
partOf Council of Ministers of the GDR
surface form: government of the German Democratic Republic
publicPerception continuation of the Stasi under a new name
reasonForDissolution peaceful revolution in East Germany
political upheaval of 1989–1990 in East Germany
reorganizedFrom Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
East German Stasi
surface form: Stasi
replaced Ministry for State Security
surface form: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit

East German Stasi
surface form: Stasi
shortName AfNS
supervisedBy Council of Ministers of the GDR
typeOfAbolition dissolution without direct successor agency in unified Germany

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East German Stasi followedBy Amt für Nationale Sicherheit
Amt für Nationale Sicherheit followedBy Amt für Nationale Sicherheit self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Auflösung der Staatssicherheit