Ministry for State Security (Stasi)

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

GPTKB entity

Statements (106)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:government_agency intelligence officer
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:Stasi
gptkbp:archiveType	gptkb:Stasi_Records_Agency
gptkbp:country	gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:dissolved	1990
gptkbp:employs	hundreds of thousands of informants
gptkbp:formed	1950
gptkbp:headquarters	gptkb:Berlin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Ministry for State Security (Stasi)
gptkbp:motto	gptkb:Schild_und_Schwert_der_Partei
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Ministerium_für_Staatssicherheit
gptkbp:notableBuilding	gptkb:Stasi_Museum_(Berlin)
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall gptkb:German_reunification gptkb:Peaceful_Revolution_(1989) gptkb:Destruction_of_Stasi_files gptkb:Opening_of_Stasi_archives gptkb:Stasi_files_scandal gptkb:Storming_of_the_Stasi_headquarters
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Department_IX gptkb:Department_M gptkb:Department_VI gptkb:Department_VIII gptkb:Department_XIV gptkb:Department_XIX gptkb:Department_XV gptkb:Department_XVIII gptkb:Department_XXII gptkb:Main_Department_I gptkb:Main_Department_II gptkb:Main_Department_III gptkb:Main_Department_IV gptkb:Main_Department_IX gptkb:Main_Department_V gptkb:Main_Department_VI gptkb:Main_Department_VII gptkb:Main_Department_VIII gptkb:Main_Department_X gptkb:Main_Department_XI gptkb:Main_Department_XII gptkb:Main_Department_XIII gptkb:Main_Department_XIV gptkb:Main_Department_XIX gptkb:Main_Department_XV gptkb:Main_Department_XVI gptkb:Main_Department_XVII gptkb:Main_Department_XVIII gptkb:Main_Department_XX gptkb:Main_Department_XXI gptkb:Main_Department_XXII gptkb:Main_Directorate_for_Reconnaissance_(Hauptverwaltung_Aufklärung) gptkb:Department_2000 gptkb:Department_VII gptkb:Department_XVI gptkb:Main_Department_2000 Department X Department XX
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Erich_Mielke gptkb:Ernst_Wollweber gptkb:Wilhelm_Zaisser
gptkbp:notableOperation	gptkb:Operation_Romeo gptkb:Operation_INFEKTION espionage in West Germany surveillance of East German citizens
gptkbp:notableVictim	gptkb:Heinz_Graffunder gptkb:Günter_Guillaume gptkb:Jürgen_Fuchs gptkb:Roland_Jahn gptkb:Werner_Stiller gptkb:Markus_Wolf gptkb:Gerulf_Pannach gptkb:Hans_Modrow gptkb:Stefan_Heym gptkb:Wolf_Biermann gptkb:Christa_Wolf gptkb:Heinz_Keßler gptkb:Heinz_Kamnitzer gptkb:Robert_Havemann gptkb:Bärbel_Bohley gptkb:Joachim_Gauck gptkb:Udo_Lindenberg gptkb:Heinz_Brandt gptkb:Heinz_Vietze gptkb:Rudolf_Bahro gptkb:Heinz_Barth gptkb:Heinz_Kahlau gptkb:Heinz_Lippmann gptkb:Heinz_Schilling gptkb:Klaus_Renft gptkb:Lutz_Rathenow gptkb:Peter_Fechter gptkb:Rainer_Eppelmann gptkb:Sascha_Anderson gptkb:Wolfgang_Templin
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:bfsParent	gptkb:Bautzen_I gptkb:Main_Department_LXXVIII gptkb:Main_Department_XLIV gptkb:Main_Department_XVII
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6