Ministry for State Security

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:government_agency intelligence officer
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:Stasi
gptkbp:affiliatedWith	gptkb:Feliks_Dzerzhinsky_Guards_Regiment gptkb:Main_Directorate_for_Reconnaissance gptkb:People's_Police
gptkbp:archiveType	gptkb:Berlin-Lichtenberg
gptkbp:country	gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:dissolved	1990
gptkbp:emblem	Stasi emblem
gptkbp:formed	1950
gptkbp:headquarters	gptkb:Berlin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Ministry for State Security
gptkbp:informants	over 170,000 (at peak)
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Ministerium_für_Staatssicherheit
gptkbp:nickname	gptkb:Stasi
gptkbp:notableBuilding	gptkb:Stasi_Museum
gptkbp:notableCommander	gptkb:Erich_Mielke gptkb:Ernst_Wollweber gptkb:Wilhelm_Zaisser
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Peaceful_Revolution_(1989) gptkb:fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
gptkbp:notableOperation	gptkb:Operation_Romeo gptkb:Operation_Vermin gptkb:Operation_INFEKTION
gptkbp:numberOfEmployees	over 90,000 (at peak)
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:Council_of_Ministers_of_the_GDR
gptkbp:purpose	gptkb:political_repression domestic surveillance foreign intelligence state security
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Federal_Commissioner_for_the_Stasi_Records
gptkbp:website	https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:GDR gptkb:German_Democratic_Republic
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5