Ministry for State Security (East Germany)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Ministry_for_State_Security_(East_Germany)

GPTKB entity

Statements (74)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:government_agency gptkb:law_enforcement intelligence officer
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:Stasi
gptkbp:archiveType	gptkb:Stasi_Records_Agency
gptkbp:country	gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:dissolved	1990
gptkbp:formed	1950
gptkbp:headquarters	gptkb:Berlin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Ministry for State Security (East Germany)
gptkbp:mainFunction	gptkb:political_repression domestic surveillance foreign intelligence
gptkbp:motto	gptkb:Schild_und_Schwert_der_Partei
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Ministerium_für_Staatssicherheit
gptkbp:notableBuilding	gptkb:Stasi_headquarters,_Lichtenberg,_Berlin
gptkbp:notableCommander	gptkb:Erich_Mielke gptkb:Ernst_Wollweber gptkb:Wilhelm_Zaisser
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Peaceful_Revolution gptkb:fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
gptkbp:notableInmate	gptkb:Hohenschönhausen_prison
gptkbp:notableOperation	gptkb:Operation_HVA gptkb:Operation_Romeo gptkb:Operation_Vermin gptkb:Zersetzung gptkb:Operation_Neptune gptkb:Operation_Spring gptkb:Operation_INFEKTION
gptkbp:notableSpy	gptkb:Christel_Boom gptkb:Günter_Guillaume gptkb:Gabriele_Gast gptkb:Hans-Joachim_Tiedge gptkb:Heinz_Busch gptkb:Heinz_Felfe gptkb:Heinz_Volpert gptkb:Helmut_Roewer gptkb:Horst_Hesse gptkb:Karl-Heinz_Kurras gptkb:Klaus-Dieter_Baumgarten gptkb:Klaus_Croissant gptkb:Klaus_Eichner gptkb:Klaus_Gysi gptkb:Klaus_Kuron gptkb:Lothar_Lenz gptkb:Manfred_Roeder gptkb:Rainer_Rupp gptkb:Siegfried_Dombrowski gptkb:Werner_Großmann gptkb:Werner_Lamberz gptkb:Werner_Stiller gptkb:Werner_Teske gptkb:Wolfgang_Schnur gptkb:Wolfgang_Schwanitz gptkb:Wolfgang_Vogel gptkb:Markus_Wolf gptkb:Manfred_von_Ardenne gptkb:Günter_Mittag gptkb:Peter_Fischer gptkb:Klaus_Schütz
gptkbp:notableUnit	gptkb:Feliks_Dzerzhinsky_Guards_Regiment Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (Main Directorate for Reconnaissance)
gptkbp:notableVictim	gptkb:Jürgen_Fuchs gptkb:Wolf_Biermann gptkb:Robert_Havemann
gptkbp:numberOfEmployees	over 90,000
gptkbp:numberOfInformants	over 170,000
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:Council_of_Ministers_of_the_GDR
gptkbp:relatedOrganization	gptkb:Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:KGB
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Federal_Commissioner_for_the_Stasi_Records
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Markus_Wolf
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5