August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Heinrich Laube also
appeared frequently in the confidential reports. Having managed to
recruit only a single Polish agent (Stanislaus Roczinski) and two Italian
ones, it obtained nearly all of its information from German informants.
Among the most noteworthy were Zacharias Aldinger, Bernhard
Lizius, Franz Strohmeyer, Hermann Ebner, Eduard Beurmann,
Jakob Singer, and Wilhelm Fischer. In 1841, Noé was succeeded
by Josef Clannern von Engelshofen, who directed the MIB until its
disbandment in 1848. See also JUNGES DEUTSCHLAND.MAISON DE FRANCE. The site of a terrorist bombing on 25 August
1983, the Maison de France serves as the French cultural center in
West Berlin. Working in conjunction with the counterterrorism di-
rectorate of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Johannes
Weinrich, a close aide to Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (or Carlos the
Jackal), had a 24-kilogram bomb placed in the building in order to
force the release of two colleagues imprisoned in France. The explo-
sion killed one person and injured 23 others. Although Weinrich fled
to the German Democratic Republic and then settled in the Middle
East, he was extradited from Yemen, tried by a Berlin court, and
given a life sentence in January 2000. A key piece of evidence was
a letter from Weinrich to Sanchez detailing the attack. It had been
intercepted by the Hungarian service, relayed to the MfS, and discov-
ered after reunification. In April 1994, following his extradition from
Greece, the head of the MfS counterterrorism directorate, Helmut
Voigt, had been given a four-year sentence for his involvement. See
also LA BELLE DISCOTHEQUE BOMBING.
MÄNNCHEN, HORST (1935–2008). The head of signals intelligence
for the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Horst Männchen
was born in Berggiesshübel (Saxony) on 3 June 1935, the son of
an iron caster. He entered the MfS in 1953 as a radio operator but
was dismissed in 1961 for disciplinary reasons. His reinstatement in
1963—approved by Markus Wolf—brought him to the technical de-
partment of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, where, encouraged
by Bruno Beater and aided by a new degree in high-frequency radio
technology, his career prospered. On 26 June 1971, Männchen was
given his own MfS department to monitor telephone conversations
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