The Ministry for State Security,commonly known as the Stasi,was the state security service of East Germany from 1950 to 1990.
Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter,poet,and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.
Manfred Stolpe was Federal Minister of Transport,Building and Urban Affairs of Germany from 2002 until 2005. Before,he was Ministerpräsident of the state Brandenburg from 1990 until 2002. Stolpe was,after the state elections following German reunification,the only Social Democratic Minister-President of a state of former East Germany. Stolpe is thought of as the architect of modern Brandenburg and left office with a 74% approval rating. He is credited with forging a new identity for the state,among other things,popularizing the Brandenburglied,though controversy surrounding failed projects and his work for the Stasi came up during his tenure. To date,Brandenburg has only had Social Democratic Minister-Presidents.
Matthias Platzeck is a German politician. He was Minister President of Brandenburg from 2002 to 2013 and party chairman of the SPD from November 2005 to April 2006.
Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V.,commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo or BFC,alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin,is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Berlin. BFC Dynamo was founded in 1966 from the football department of SC Dynamo Berlin and became one of the most successful clubs in East German football. The club is the record champion of East Germany with ten consecutive league championships from 1979 through 1988. BFC Dynamo competes in the fourth tier Regionalliga Nordost. The club enjoys a cross-city rivalry with 1. FC Union Berlin and a historical rivalry with SG Dynamo Dresden. The rivalry with Union Berlin is part of the Berlin derby.
1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V.,commonly known as 1. FC Union Berlin or Union Berlin,is a professional German football club in Köpenick,Berlin.
Lutz Eigendorf was a German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
The Stasi Records Agency was the organisation that administered the archives of Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the former German Democratic Republic. It was a government agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was established when the Stasi Records Act came into force on 29 December 1991. Formally it was called the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic;the official German abbreviation was BStU. On June 17,2021,the BStU was absorbed into the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv).
Jürgen Fuchs was an East German writer and dissident.
Marianne Birthler is a German human rights advocate and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 2000 to 2011,she served as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records,responsible for investigating the past crimes of the Stasi,the former communist secret police of East Germany. In 2016 she was offered the nomination of the CDU/CSU and her own party for President of Germany,but after some time decided not to run;the parties would have had a majority in the Federal Convention,securing her the election.
The Alexanderplatz demonstration was a demonstration for political reforms and against the government of the German Democratic Republic on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin on Saturday 4 November 1989. With between half a million and a million protesters it was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history and a milestone of the peaceful revolution that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. The demonstration was organized by actors and employees of theaters in East Berlin. It was the first demonstration in East German history that was organized by private individuals and was permitted to take place by the authorities. The speakers during the demonstration were members of the opposition,representatives of the regime and artists,and included the dissidents Marianne Birthler and Jens Reich,the writer Stefan Heym,the actor Ulrich Mühe,the former head of the East German foreign intelligence service Markus Wolf and Politburo member Günter Schabowski.
Lutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification. From then on,his fortunes changed,and he received several literary honors and awards.
Siegfried Reiprich is a German human rights activist and author. He was involved in the resistance against the communist regime of the German Democratic Republic (GDR),which led to him being expelled from university and eventually banished from the GDR. In 2009,he was appointed by the Government of Saxony as the Director of the Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten. In 2011,he was elected as a member of the Executive Board of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.
Carola Stabe is a former dissident and civil rights activist in East Germany GDR. She is the founder and leader of the environmental group ARGUS in Potsdam,Germany. She initiated the GDR- wide opposition network of environmental groups,which later converged in the Grüne Liga.
Zersetzung was a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means,using secret methods of abusive control and psychological manipulation to prevent anti-government activities. People were commonly targeted on a pre-emptive and preventative basis,to limit or stop politically incorrect activities that they may have gone on to perform,and not on the basis of crimes they had actually committed. Zersetzung methods were designed to break down,undermine,and paralyze people behind "a facade of social normality" in a form of "silent repression".
A construction soldier was a non-combat role of the National People's Army,the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic,from 1964 to 1990. Bausoldaten were conscientious objectors who accepted conscription but refused armed service and instead served in unarmed construction units. Bausoldaten were the only legal form of conscientious objection in the Warsaw Pact.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history.
Ehrhart Neubert is a retired German Evangelical minister and theologian.
Matthias Domaschk was a member of the civil rights movement within the German Democratic Republic and a victim of the Stasi.
Jonas Geissler is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.
