Heinz Keßler
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Heinz Keßler was a German communist politician and military officer in East Germany.
Keßler in 1988
Portrait by Abraham Pisarek, 1946
Generalleutnant Keßler (r.) with Walter Ulbricht in 1966
Heinz Hoffmann
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Karl-Heinz Hoffmann was a German military officer and politician who served as the Minister of National Defense in the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, and as a member of the Po
Heinz Keßler
…der Politischen Hauptverwaltung) of the NVA to Defense Minister (with the rank of Armeegeneral) on 3 December 1985 after his predecessor, Armeegeneral Heinz Hoffmann, died of a heart attack. In 1991, after the Unification of Germany, Kessler was arrested after police received information that Kessler would attempt…
Hoffman in 1982
Hoffmann's official Volkskammer portrait, 1954
Heinz Hoffmann's grave on Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten on Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in East-Berlin Photo by Stian Nordskog