Alfred Spuhler

Alfred Hans Peter Spuhler (born December 13, 1940 in Munich ) is a former German double agent .

Life

Soldier in the German Armed Forces since 1958 , the son of a driver worked from 1968 to 1989 in technical reconnaissance for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), most recently with the rank of captain . From 1972 until a suspected deconspiration in 1988 he worked as an agent for the Enlightenment Headquarters of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR, where he was a full-time employee and lieutenant colonel of the National People's Army . His code name was "Peter", he received approx. 330,000 DM from the MfS.

Unmasked by defectors in 1989, Spuhler had to be in pre-trial detention from November 29, 1989 to the end of 1994, after he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Bavarian Supreme Court as the main defendant on November 5, 1991 for treason in a particularly serious case was. In addition, he had to bear the procedural costs of 134,000 DM and a forfeiture penalty of 60,000 DM. His brother Ludwig Spuhler ("Florian", born October 8, 1928), who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for mediation and messenger services (via holiday home in Thiersee ), and his officer in charge Harry Schütt , who received two years' probation, were also accused , and Günter Böttger, who received a year and two months probation.

Spuhler revealed all of the BND's military knowledge of the entire Eastern Bloc (annual overviews of military strength) and was considered a top source. He revealed about 300 human sources of military information. The BND was no longer considered trustworthy by the friendly services. His motivation lay in his political conviction that the danger from the East was being exaggerated by NATO , and the considerable wages for agents.

literature

• Klaus Marxen / Gerhard Werle : Criminal Justice and GDR Injustice: 4/1 Spionage , De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, p. 344ff
• Peter Jochen Winters: In the secret war of espionage: Hans-Georg Wieck (BND) and Markus Wolf (MfS) , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2014
• Gotthold Schramm : The BND headquarters in Berlin , Edition Ost, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-36051001-3
• Focus dated June 12, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-Christoph Großmann gave the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution the real names of Alfred Spuhler and Ludwig Spuhler.