UNREST IN GREIFSWALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300330004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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hear Mewls could leave the room, almost all students tried to get ~~?--~-- -
at the very moment Mewls and Westphal, head of the country (sic),
entered the building. The doors of the meeting room and all d,,
the building were closed and guarded by SSD personnel in civi iMle~E3les
students who started undergoing their exami~ ~.! ~ 25X1
their 10th semester.
2. On 30 March 1955, Professors of the surgical hospital conferred with
Dr. Gerhard Harig, State Secretary for university Affairs, wha was
in Greifswald from 30 March until at least 2 April. While this
conference was held, all students working at the hospital gathered
in front of the hospital building to protest against the closing down
of the medical school. They had previously planned to strike but did
not follow through with this decision.
3. A meeting of the school of medicine was to be held in the university
building on the evening of 30 bdarch. The students h~}d been told that
their professors would discuss the situation. While the professors
failed to appear, other physicians and a large number of unknown persons
including many uniformed railroad employees were present. When an FDJ
representative opened the meeting and stated that. the professors would
not appear and that Comrade Mews, first secretary of the Rostock SED
headquarters would make a speech, the students expressed indignation
and some stated that this would give this meeting a different character.
';then the FDJ representative said that all those who did not want to
medical training at another university. The
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that t!tey had been treated badly an~:3 t}iat several students had. been
ri-znhandied.
lri t:ie afternoon of 31 :;:Arch, the steeple of th+~ Jacob;, Cizurcli on
Dot:,-~trasse, across from t}ie jail buildirt~~A ~ ila,ues. ~ sho_rt grit
before the .fi.re, three young workers h~.d ~~ the sacristaaa if
they could inspect the interior construc~~ ~hetiteeple. Since the
police was later unable to identify the ~"orkers, the population
be] i _~ved that they had been SED provoca tried to incri;~ninate
the students with the population.
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T'to :;3D district headquarters suppressed all
and the church fire and Made it ir:ipossible f
carry reports on these incidents. Only the "
newspaper, carried a report, probably as a r
ban imposed on the CI]U papers was the first
b:~ the SED.
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