Helmut Müller-Enbergs
Helmut Müller-Enbergs (born Haltern/NRW 1960) is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history. Life. Müller-Enbergs studied Political sciences between 1986 and 1989, initially at the "Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität“ in Münster and subsequently at the Otto Suhr Institute (part of the Free University of Berlin). From 1986 till 1989 he was a research student, later becoming a research assistant at the Free University's Central Research Institute. Meanwhile, he turned up as a press spokesperson for the "Bündnis 90" (moderate) political  grouping in the Brandenburg regional parliament, where he also provided technical support to the Stolpe . Since 1992 he has been a research officer with the Federal Commission for the Stasi Records (""Bundesbeauftragter für die Stasi-Unterlagen""). He is a co-author of the official report on Gregor Gysi (1996) prepared for the of the Bundestag "(German national legislature)". Between 2003 and its dissolution in 2005 Müller-Enbergs headed up the Rosenholz Research Group. Currently (2014) his research is focused on detailed investigation of Informal collaborators (sometimes known as undercover informers) and the Main Intelligence Administration ""Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung"") of the East  German Ministry for State Security (Stasi), as well as on espionage and "Intelligence service Psychology". He gained a doctorate in 2007. His doctoral dissertation was produced under the supervision of Prof. Eckhard Jesse, the high-profile (in Germany) expert on extremism and terrorism at the University of Technology in Chemnitz. In 2007/08 Dr. Müller-Enbergs was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2008/09 he had a visiting professorship at the Arts Faculty of the University of Southern Denmark at Odense, where since 2010 he has been an honorary professor in the Department of History . Additionally, in 2011/12 he became a visiting professor (designated an honorary professor since 2012) at the History Faculty at the Gotland Campus, now part of Uppsala University despite its island location at Visby. Back in Germany, in 2010 he was elected to membership of two Brandenburg based commissions dealing with Controversies. Kurras affair. Together with Cornelia Jabs, Müller-Enbergs unmasked, in the journal , the West Berlin policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras as the former SED (i.e. East German communist party) member and Stasi informer "Otto Bohl". Although the director of the Research Department at the Stasi Records Office had, in writing , released the piece for publication, Müller-Enbergs found himself formally admonished by the organisation's board in respect of it: later, in a wide-ranging interview it was powerfully implied that the board of the Stasi record office might have behaved as it did in response to direct or indirect pressure from various quarters, including a formerly Dresden based Russian KGB senior officer, Vladimir Putin. Müller-Enbergs applied, successfully, for the board's admonishment to be removed from his personnel file, and the matter appeared settled with Müller-Enbergs' reported acceptance that he had not "sufficiently" informed the board in  respect of the Kurras disclosures. IM Bob and IM Petra. In Autumn 2012 the board refused him support in trials against two alleged former East German spies known as "IM Bob" and "IM Petra". Academics, journalists and persecution victims from the days of the one party dictatorship now showed him unanimous solidarity. At the start of 2013 the Deuling couple withdrew from linking their name in a plaint against Helmut Müller-Enbergs. This happened after the court to which the case had been assigned pronounced the case beyond its competence, requiring the matter to be handled under a different legal  procedure. This appears to open the way for Müller-Enbergs to conclude the matter with a legally binding assertion that agents "IM Bob" and "IM Petra" are indeed the Deuling couple.