The Ministry for State Security in 1951 founded a special Law School in Potsdam-Golm (“Juristische Hochschule des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit”) whose duty was to increase the amount of academically educated employees of the Ministry by giving academic profession in public law, international policy as well as professional training in interrogation techniques, clandestine intelligence missions and adminstrational organisation.
The studies finished with either degrees of technical school, diploma in law or criminalistics, or doctorate – doctorate A comparable to western-german “Dr. jur.” and doctorate B comparable to the postdoc qualification in Western-Germany “Dr. jur. habil.” or “Dr. habil.”
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Bernd Pulch 