Roitzsch turned to West German authorities and revealed the names
of his leading agents. Of these, Klaus Kurt von Raussendorf, Ha-
gen Blau, and Ludwig Pauli were prominent officials in the Foreign
Office, while Alexander Dahms was the police director of the Co-
blenz office of the Bundesgrenzschutz (Federal Border Protection).ROMEO SPIES. Male intelligence officers who seduced female secre-
taries and professionals for purposes of espionage, the Romeo spies
were extensively utilized with much success by Markus Wolf of the
Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung. Such spies underwent a rigorous
screening process and were then given a false identity, which made
later marriage a fairly remote possibility. A prime target was the West
German government complex in Bonn because of the large number
of single women in important secretarial positions. The relationships
arose primarily out of ideological motivation or simple attraction;
money or blackmail did not normally play a significant role. Not until
1979 with the arrest of Ingrid Garbe (code name iris), a secretary in
the West German mission of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
headquarters in Brussels, did the first case come to light. Her partner
bore the alias Hans-Joachim Heisinger.
Among the most prominent East German Romeos (and their se-
duced partners) were Karl-Heinz Schneider (Gabrielle Gast), Wolf-
gang Goliath (Inge Goliath), Roland Gandt (Margarete Lubig),
Peter Krause (Helge Berger), and Dieter Will (Ursel Lorenzen).
The KGB also used East German illegals as Romeos, as in the case of
Hans-Jürgen Henze (Margarete Höke). Mostly because of cultural
differences, similar attempts in the United States proved unsuccess-
ful, and only in rare instances, such as with Dieter Popp and Egon
Streffer, was a homosexual liaison involved. Wolf later expressed
some regret for the emotional distress and the destroyed careers that
had resulted but dryly added that he “was running an intelligence
service, not a lonely-hearts club.” See also ILLEGALER.
RONGE, MAXIMILIAN (1874–1953). The last director of the Evi-
denzbüro, Maximilian Ronge was born in Vienna on 9 November
- A career officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, he was trans-
ferred to the Evidenzbüro in 1907 and became a protégé of Alfred
Redl, whom he helped expose as a double agent in 1913. His elevation
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