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Erich Mielke
Erich Fritz Emil Mielke was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security, better known as the Stasi, from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Dubbed "The Master of Fear" by the West German press, Mielke was one of the most powerful, feared, and hated men in East Germany.
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politics · East German secret police chief (1907–2000) · military officer · politician · minister · also Erich Mielke, Mielke
Born 28 December 1907 · Died 21 May 2000 · Q57309
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2026· 2 entries
“All this blithering over to execute or not to execute, for the death penalty or against—all rot, Comrades. Execute! And, when necessary, without a court judgment.”
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2012· 1 entry
The museum at the former Stasi headquarters opened Mielke's office as a permanent exhibit
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2003· 1 entry
Australian journalist Anna Funder declared, "The name Mielke has now come to mean 'Stasi
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2000· 1 entry
Died 2000-05-21.
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1995· 2 entries
Mielke died in a Berlin nursing home in 2000
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Parole officers and Mielke's attorneys argued that he was "totally confused" and obtained his release
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1990· 2 entries
Mielke was prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for the 1931 policemen's murders
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By the protagonist, a former Stasi agent who blames him for being framed up and imprisoned
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1989· 4 entries
“every DDR citizen the right to travel.”
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The most feared man in East Germany had lived in a luxurious home with access to an indoor pool
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Ordered the creation of a special elite unit for crushing disturbances
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Or before) mentions a departmental training meeting and included a list of attendees
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1988· 1 entry
Sergeant Hall was tricked into confessing his espionage career to an undercover FBI Special Agent named Dimitry Droujinsky, a Russian-American, who was posing as Hall's new KGB handler
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Hero of the Soviet Union (1987).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1987).
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Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
“I know, comrade Ewald, that you are against ice hockey, but I am for it. It”
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1982· 6 entries
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1982).
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Awarded Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1982).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1982).
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Awarded Order of Friendship (1982).
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Won Gold medal with hero rank of GDR (1982).
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“We are not immune from villains among us. If I knew of any already, they wouldn”
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
“We are paying great attention to the Palestine resistance and the other revolutionary forces fighting against the policies of the United States and against the provocations of the Israeli aggressor. Together with the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, we will do everything to support this just battle.”
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1977· 3 entries
Won Artur Becker Medal in Gold (1977).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1977).
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Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1977).
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1975· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1975).
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1975).
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Won Gold medal with hero rank of GDR (1975).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1973).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
Mielke was required to provide a detailed intelligence briefing to party secretary Erich Honecker each Tuesday, directly following the weekly Politburo meeting
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1970· 2 entries
Following the 1969 Competitive Sports Resolution (German: Leistungssportbeschluss)
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“In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin”
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Hero of Labour (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
And barely missed a home match of the team
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Hero of Labour (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
Won Artur Becker Medal in Gold (1961).
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Banner of Labor (1960).
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Won Medal for Excellence in the Armed Organs of the Interior Ministry (1960).
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Erich Mielke and Markus Wolf, who was ironically of German Jewish descent, used false flag recruitment to secretly organize and finance neo-Nazi organizations, which they then instructed to vandalize Jewish religious and
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1958).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1957).
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Mielke, in a backhanded compliment to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, ordered every room inside Stasi Headquarters renumbered so that his own office would be Room 101
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1954· 3 entries
Awarded Patriotic Order of Merit (1954).
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Awarded Military Order "For Services to the People and the Fatherland" (1954).
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Awarded Patriotic Order of Merit (honor clasp) (1954).
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1953· 2 entries
8,000 were members of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei, the barracked people's police units, which were actually the secret cadre of the future East German Army
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And the Stasi was simultaneously downgraded to a State Secretariat under the Ministry of the Interior under the leadership of Willi Stoph
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1951· 1 entry
By East German leaders for communist heroes
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1950· 1 entry
As a response to the outbreak of the Korean War, West Germany was also permitted to join NATO, which was then upgraded into a military alliance
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1949· 3 entries
The Soviet Military Administration ceded its legal functions to the newly created German Democratic Republic
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As a response to the remilitarization of East Germany and the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Portugal formed the North Atlantic Treaty
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Noel Field, an American citizen who had spied for the NKVD from inside the U
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1948· 1 entry
Mielke was appointed as security chief of the German Economic Commission (German: Deutsche Wirtschaftskommission), the precursor to the future East German government
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1945· 1 entry
Mielke returned to the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany, which he helped organize into a Marxist–Leninist satellite state under the Socialist Unity Party (SED)
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1932· 1 entry
Mielke attended the Comintern's Military Political school under the alias Paul Bach
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1931· 1 entry
Berlin, when protagonist Bernie Gunther saves him from being murdered by Nazi Brownshirts
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1925· 1 entry
And worked as a reporter for the communist newspaper Rote Fahne from 1928 to 1931
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-12-28.
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