Albert Radke

Albert Radke (* 1899 ; † 1979 ) was a German officer and from 1951 to 1964 Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , first under Otto John , then under Hubert Schrübbers .

Albert Radke joined an infantry regiment in 1917 as a flagjunker , served as an officer in the Reichswehr and from 1935 to 1937 was the Wehrmacht's liaison officer to the Gestapo . Since 1938 he was staff officer and during the war in the Abwehr in Münster and Vienna in the counter-espionage act. As a colonel , Radke was involved in the investigation of the participants in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt . However, he initially came under suspicion himself and was therefore detained for two days. Corresponding allegations against him were dropped on September 14, 1944. As a precaution, however, he was transferred to the fighting force by the Abwehr and was taken prisoner by the Americans on March 2, 1945 .

From 1946 to 1950 Radke was a manager of the Gehlen organization under the code name "Riedinger" . In September 1950 he moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior for a short time and in 1951 became Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. There he promoted the already existing practice of hiring people exposed to Nazism as so-called “freelancers” in order to generate success in counter-espionage. When this personnel policy and controversial bugging methods found their way into the public, Radke was given early retirement on July 31, 1964.

literature

Constantin Goschler , Michael Wala: “No new Gestapo”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi past . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015 ISBN 978-3498024383

Web links

Historical project for the protection of the constitution

Individual evidence

↑ Bodo V. Hechelhammer: Double agent Heinz Felfe discovers America . The BND, the CIA and a secret journey in 1956. Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78694-4 , p. 56 .
↑ “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 204 .
↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 197 .
↑ Constantin Goschler, Michael Wala: "The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi Past 1950-1975". Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, January 29, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Radke, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German secret service employee
DATE OF BIRTH	1899
DATE OF DEATH	1979

[1] Bodo V. Hechelhammer: Double agent Heinz Felfe discovers America . The BND, the CIA and a secret journey in 1956. Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78694-4 , p. 56 .

[2] “Always on the enemy!” - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 204 .

[3] Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 197 .

[4] Constantin Goschler, Michael Wala: "The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi Past 1950-1975". Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, January 29, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2018 .