pediment, MIB head Josef Clannern von Engelshofen considered
such “honorableness” the mark of an excellent agent, while Austrian
chancellor Klemens von Metternich welcomed the keen insights that
a member of the journalistic opposition could provide.FLÄMIG, PAUL GERHARD (1919– ). A West German politician
with ties to the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA), Paul Gerhard
Flämig served in the Luftwaffe during World War II before being
taken a prisoner of war. In 1946, he joined the Sozialdemokratische
Partei Deutschlands and was a Bundestag delegate from Hesse from
1963 to 1980 as well as a member of the European Parliament, sitting
on important committees dealing with scientific and technological is-
sues. His recruitment by the HVA as an agent (code names walter
and julius) occurred in 1973 and continued for the next 15 years.
Unmasked on 22 January 1993, Flämig denied the allegations, al-
though his activity was later confirmed by HVA chief Markus Wolf
and the Rosenholz documents. Because of his poor health, the court
in Frankfurt am Main terminated his trial in late July 1998.
FLOSSENBÜRG. A Nazi concentration camp where numerous Ger-
man and Allied spies perished, Flossenbürg was established in May
1938 in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria near the town of Flossen-
bürg. Only days prior to its liberation by U.S. troops in late April
1945, it was the site of the trial and execution by hanging of Wilhelm
Canaris and Hans Oster of the Abwehr. The executions of several
dozen Allied spies occurred there as well.
FOELKERSAM, ADRIAN VON (1914–1945). A member of
the Brandenburg Division and the SS-Jagdverband under Otto
Skorzeny, Adrian von Foelkersam was born in St. Petersburg, Rus-
sia, on 20 December 1914. Following his studies in Berlin and Vi-
enna, he joined the Abwehr in 1939 and was assigned to the newly
created Baulehr Kompanie z.b.V. 800 (Special Purpose Construction
and Training Company No. 800), which later became the Branden-
burg Division. His most celebrated exploit—securing the oil fields
in Maikop in the Caucasus—earned him the Knight’s Cross on 14
September 1942. Transferred to the SS-Jadgverband in 1944, Foelk-
ersam became Skorzeny’s assistant and participated in deposing
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