Anton Ackermann
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Anton Ackermann was a German communist politician who was a leading functionary of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He served as the first director of the Insti
Portrait by Abraham Pisarek c. 1950
Ackermann gives a speech at the 15th Party Congress of the Communist Party of Germany, April 1946
The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security, the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic, from 1955 to 1990.
Anton Ackermann
…as director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism in 1953, and as the first director of the Institute for Economic Research, the predecessor of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, East Germany's foreign intelligence service, from 1951 to 1952. He was succeeded by his protégé, Markus Wolf. In 1953–1954, he was expelled from the…
Mielke addressing the SV Dynamo, March 25, 1983.
Markus Wolf (November 1989)
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