After an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, he worked from 1964 as signal box master and dispatcher at the Rostock port railway.

After his protest in 1968 against the invasion of Warsaw contract troops in Prague,[1] he was no longer allowed to work at the Warnemünde border station for political reasons.

In July 1991 he founded the "SOKO REX", which was intended to counter the drastic right-wing extremist acts of violence and assaults.

[10] From April 2005 to July 2008, Eggert headed the Enquete Commission appointed by the Saxon State Parliament on "Demographic development and its effects on the areas of life of people in the Free State of Saxony and its consequences for the political fields of action", which presented its 400-page report on 30 September 2008.

Eggert rejected all accusations, requested an investigation and later filed a complaint himself, which was not pursued further by the Public prosecutor's office, since there was no justified initial suspicion.

However, he could not prevent this incident from attracting a great deal of media attention and rumours of alleged bisexuality being spread.

Since April 2010 Heinz Eggert has been President of the Television Academy Central Germany in Leipzig as successor to Jürgen Doetz.