Alexander Waag

Alexander Waag (born February 12, 1895 in Stuttgart , † 1955 in Heidelberg ) was a German military in the Abwehr , the military secret service of the Wehrmacht .

He was the son of the bookseller Max Waag and attended the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart .

Career

From 1915 to 1919 he was employed by the Württemberg Army in the Imperial German Army , where he was appointed ensign in 1917 . When questioned in Munich on October 9, 1945 , he reported that he was employed in various spiritual positions until 1926. German Intelligence Service (GIS) activities: In 1926 he became a civil employee of the Wehrmacht . His place of employment was Department Ic / AO of the Wehrkreis V Stuttgart ( espionage and sabotage tasks). In 1933 he was appointed head of Abwehr I of the Stuttgart military district. In 1934 he was promoted to captain . In 1937 he was appointed head of the Defense Branch (NEST) in Friedrichshafen . In August 1939 he became the first head of the KO war organization at the Mission of the German Reich in Bern . The Swiss counter-intelligence determined that Alexander Waag and Hans Gunther von Dincklage led two German Abwehr agents, Hans Sandriesser and his wife Gilda (alias 1001). In 1940, Lieutenant Colonel Erich Knabbe traveled to Switzerland as an "honorary attaché" and took over the management of KO Switzerland from Waag. Major Waag left Bern on February 14, 1941. In July 1940 he was appointed head of the Abwehr control center (AST) in Paris. From April 1944 he was head of the AST (later KdM) Munich. In October 1944 he was appointed commander of the military district V. In January 1945 he was appointed commander of the Sonthofen military registration office. On August 6, 1945 he was arrested in Sonthofen and subsequently imprisoned in the Civilian Internment Camp Det 80. On September 27, 1945 he was transferred to the USEBT Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Center and was accepted by the G-2 Counter Intelligence Bureau (CIB) USEET asks what a report dated August 8, 1945 was made about. He was assigned the SHAEF Personality Card Index for Germany Pink Cards 59553 and 59554 . He had knowledge of the activities and people of the KdM Munich, agents in Spain, North Africa, the United States, England, the AST France, the KO Switzerland.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Head of the KO war organization at the Mission of the German Reich in Bern August 1939 to 1940	Lieutenant Colonel Erich Knabbe († 1956) at the end of March 1942: Sea captain Hans Meisner

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Rudolf Fuhrer: Espionage against Switzerland . the secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in World War II, 1939-1945. Huber, 1982, ISBN 978-3-274-00003-7 , pp. 33 ( google.de ).
↑ Hans Rudolf Fuhrer : Espionage against Switzerland . the secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in World War II, 1939-1945. Huber, 1982, ISBN 978-3-274-00003-7 , pp. 32 ( google.de - The first KO leader in Switzerland was “Honorary Attaché” Major Waag Alexander).

personal data
SURNAME	Waag, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German military in defense
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	1955
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Hans Rudolf Fuhrer: Espionage against Switzerland . the secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in World War II, 1939-1945. Huber, 1982, ISBN 978-3-274-00003-7 , pp. 33 ( google.de ).

[2] Hans Rudolf Fuhrer : Espionage against Switzerland . the secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in World War II, 1939-1945. Huber, 1982, ISBN 978-3-274-00003-7 , pp. 32 ( google.de - The first KO leader in Switzerland was “Honorary Attaché” Major Waag Alexander).