in North Rhine-Westphalia, he was in a prime position to report on
the NPD’s activities in this populous region. Yet because of Frenz’s
blatantly anti-Semitic publications, the LfV terminated the relation-
ship in 1995.
Knowledge of his undercover role only surfaced when the gov-
ernment of Gerhard Schröder attempted to ban the NPD following
a series of right-wing hate crimes during the late 1990s. Frenz was
scheduled by the government to testify in the hearings before the
Bundeshofgericht, the Federal Republic of Germany’s highest court.
In January 2002, however, the judges discovered that they had not
been apprised beforehand of Frenz’s role as an informer, and they
angrily refused to proceed. This debacle not only caused considerable
embarrassment to the government but raised the question of whether
extremist parties like the NPD were being inadvertently subsidized
through the deployment of paid agents. For his part, Frenz unsuc-
cessfully sued the government for his presumed loss of income as a
nonmedical practitioner.FRENZEL, ALFRED (1899–1968). A leading Czechoslovakian spy
active in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Alfred Frenzel
was born in Josephstahl (now Josefuv Dul, Czech Republic) on 18
September 1899. Trained as a glassmaker, he joined the Czechoslo-
vakian Communist Party in 1922 but left for Great Britain prior to the
absorption of the Sudetenland by Germany. Following his service in
a Czech unit of the Royal Air Force during World War II, he immi-
grated to Bavaria in 1947 and joined the Sozialdemokratische Partei
Deutschlands. During the electoral campaign of 1953, a rival Bund-
estag candidate accused him of trafficking in drugs and concealing
his communist past, thereby forcing Frenzel to swear under oath that
he was innocent of those charges.
Although he prevailed in the election and obtained a seat on the
parliamentary defense committee, his case was closely monitored by
the new Czechoslovakian intelligence service, Stani tagna Bezecnost
(StB). Under the direction of Boumil Molnar of the StB’s First Di-
rectorate, Frenzel was threatened with exposure of his political and
criminal record unless he consented to work as a spy. An agreement
was reached in July 1956, and he received the code name anna. In
return for large sums of money—and the promise of a villa and car
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