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Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈmiːlkə]; 28 December 1907 – 21 May 2000) was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatsicherheit – MfS), better known as the Stasi, from 1957 until shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
May 26, 2000 · Erich Mielke, the former head of the dreaded East German security agency known as the Stasi, has died at 92, German officials said yesterday. The daily Kurier said Mr. Mielke...
NARRATOR: Erich Mielke: As a young communist in 1931, he shot two policemen in Berlin and fled to Moscow. His great idol is Stalin, also adept in the persecution of political opponents.
Feb 6, 2018 · Erich Mielke was one of the most feared figures of communist East Germany. Head of the Ministry of State Security he ran an extensive system of surveillance and repression. Who was he?...
May 26, 2000 · rich Mielke, the former head of the dreaded East German security agency known as the Stasi, has died at age 92, officials in the German capital said. The Kurier daily said that Mielke died four...
Berlin, 28 Dec. 1907; d. Berlin, 22 May 2000) German; Minister for State Security of the German Democratic Republic 1957–89 Mielke was not well known before his fall in 1989. Yet his Ministry for State Security (Stasi) was perhaps the largest employer in the GDR.
Aug 12, 2021 · The move was a stroke of luck for the East German Stasi state security, which was run for decades by Erich Mielke in the Ministry for State Security (MfS), according to authors Daniel and Jürgen...
Jun 1, 2000 · Erich Mielke, East Germany’s secret police chief, died on May 22nd, aged 92. Jun 1st 2000 |. AP. AFTER the East German state collapsed in 1989, revenge was in the air. At the top of many...
May 27, 2024 · Gill and I were standing at the heart of the compound. Across the courtyard stood the hulking administrative building once ruled over by Erich Mielke, the agency’s shadowy chairman.
May 25, 2000 · Erich Mielke, who headed the former East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, for three decades, has died in Berlin at the age of 92. Berlin officials...
