Erich Mielke
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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 Berl
Mielke in 1976
Köllnisches Gymnasium
Mielke in 1927
Walter Ulbricht, mastermind of the Anlauf-Lenck murders, later General Secretary of the East German SED from 1949 to 1971.
On 9 August 1931 a double homicide took place in Berlin, Weimar Germany, when Berlin police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck were assassinated by two members of the Parteiselbstschutz, the paramil
Erich Mielke
…of Berlin and a second-generation member of the Communist Party of Germany, Mielke was one of two gunmen in the 1931 murders of Berlin Police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. After learning that a witness had survived, Mielke escaped arrest by fleeing to the Soviet Union, where the NKVD recruited him. He was one of the key…
The funeral of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck was attended by thousands of Berliners.
"Help in the search for the Red Murderers!" A 'wanted' poster published by the Berlin Police in September 1933, following the murders. Erich Mielke is on the far right in the top row. Ziemer is to the left of Mielke. Walter Ulbricht is on the far left in the bottom row.
The "Babylon Cinema", the site of the assassinations of Anlauf and Lenck, as it appears today
The funeral of the murdered police officers. In front Magnus Heimannsberg, Albert Grzesinski and Bernhard Weiß