Rudi Mittig (26 January 1925 – 28 August 1994)[1] was a senior officer of the East German Stasi.
At the end of World War II, he remained in the Soviet occupied zone and completed his engineering schooling.
In 1950, Mittig joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and in 1952 he was appointed by the Stasi to division III of the Bureau of Economics in Potsdam.
In 1986, he became a member of the central committee of the SED and promoted to senior general of the Stasi.
Upon dissolution of the Stasi in 1989, he served as head of the successor Office of National Security until January 1990, when he retired.