Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

for Machine Building. In 1957, deeply in debt, he expressed his will- ingness to sell scientific secrets to the German Democrati ...

from Hitler himself or one of Hitler’s immediate subordinates. The RSD’s importance was underscored by the elaborate initiation ...

Abwehr in 1933, he was made head of the counterespionage station in Trier, one of the two main installations responsible for the ...

Items of lesser significance were destroyed at a Red Army facility using a flame thrower. At that point, the close relationship ...

military government. Telephone lines were used for several months before the construction of two transmitters, first in Berlin-B ...

der Oder on 19 August 1878, the son of a legal official with banking interests. He spent several years working in a London banki ...

Huerta at the border crossing at El Paso, Texas. Huerta’s appeals to the German ambassador, Johann Heinrich Count von Bernstorff ...

at war’s end, he died in London on 30 May 1949 following a collapse at the South Kensington station. RIPPERGER, ERICH (1909–1979 ...

Ritter served as an air force officer in World War I. In 1927, after completing his university education in Cologne, he was appo ...

Vlasov. In March 1943, Roenne became head of Fremde Heere West and concentrated on gathering information regarding the Atlantic ...

with the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) in 1951 based in Mecklenburg. Further training led to his transfer to the HVA as ...

Roitzsch turned to West German authorities and revealed the names of his leading agents. Of these, Klaus Kurt von Raussendorf, H ...

as head of the Evidenzbüro in 1917 came as the result of his diverse experience in various intelligence branches, from counteres ...

an exceptionally valuable asset for the British. As fears mounted regarding German nuclear development during World War II, Ros- ...

any action of this sort would not occur until the signing of a separate peace treaty between the GDR and the Soviet Union schedu ...

to the Soviet Union during World War II, the Rote Drei (Red Three) included those operated by Alexander Foote in Lausanne, Edmon ...

Of the 118 individuals tried before closed military tribunals, 45 received death sentences by hanging or the guillotine. Because ...

and lithographer. He also performed illegal work as a member of the German communist youth organization. Arrested by the Nazis i ...

U.S. government posthumously awarded both Ruh and Lindner the Silver Star for their wartime service in the OSS. RUMRICH, GÜNTHER ...

citizens’ committee. It later became a museum that attempts to pre- serve the original Stasi working environment. RUNGE, YEVGENY ...