Anatoli Markowitsch Gurevich
Anatoli Markowitsch Gurewitsch , with the code name Kent ( Russian Анатолий Маркович Гуревич ; * November 7, 1913 in Charkow ; † January 2, 2009 in St. Petersburg ) was an officer of the Soviet military intelligence service GRU and as a petit chef one of the "legendary" personalities of the Red Orchestra designated resistance movements .
Life
Gurevich came from a Jewish family and grew up in Leningrad . From 1936 he attended the Institute for Tourism there, where he trained as an interpreter. In 1938 he took part in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer and was recruited by the GRU like other former Spanish fighters . He was commissioned to support and monitor the grand chef Leopold Trepper in setting up an information network.
At the direction of the GRU headquarters, he also contacted Sándor Radó in Geneva in 1940 and, in early November 1941, with Harro Schulze-Boysen in Berlin.
Since Trepper did not have sufficient radio equipment in 1941, Gurewitsch's group in Belgium, under the guise of a South American building materials company cooperating with the Nazis, also took over a large part of the information transmission for them. After stays in Stockholm and, above all, in Brussels , Gurevich was arrested in Marseille in 1942 and included in the radio game begun by the Gestapo Red Orchestra .
After his return to the Soviet Union in 1945, he was accused of treason . After a long stay in the Lubyanka , he was deported to a labor camp. He was not fully rehabilitated until 1991, but received such a low pension that he had to rely on donations to buy urgently needed medicines.
Only after his rehabilitation did he find out that his son Michel was alive and living in Spain; Previously he had only been told about him that he had died after he was born.
Fonts
- Anatoli Gourevitch: Un certain monsieur Kent. Le dernier témoin de l'Orchestre rouge. Grasset: Paris 1995; ISBN 978-2-246-46331-3
Filmography
- Hans Coppi junior : Lost life . Documentary about Anatoly Gurevich.
literature
- Sergei Nikolajewitsch Poltorak :: The scout "Kent" . (Russian)
- Margarete Barcza : memories. In: Luis T. Bonmati: Ultimo acorde para la Orchestra Roja . Alicante 1990, pp. 125-239
- Hans Coppi junior : The “Red Orchestra” in the field of tension between resistance and intelligence work. The Trepper Report from June 1943. (pdf 7 MB) ; in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 3/1996
- Hans Schafranek , Johannes Tuchel (Ed.): War in the ether. Resistance and espionage in World War II. Picus Verlag: Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85452-470-6
- Gilles Perrault : On the trail of the Red Chapel. Europaverlag: Vienna / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-203-51232-7
- Heinz Höhne: Password Director. The story of the Red Chapel. (1st edition 1970) S. Fischer Verlag : Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-032501-X
- Heinz Höhne, Gilles Perrault: "ptx calls Moscow". The story of the Red Chapel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1968 ( online ).
- Leopold Trepper: The truth. Autobiography. dtv: Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-01387-7
- Obituary in the St. Petersburg Herald
- The "oldest spy in Russia" is dead . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , January 4, 2009
- Johannes Tuchel: You have to celebrate Christmas properly . In: Die Zeit , No. 51/2007, about Anatolij Gurewitsch's trip to Berlin
Web links
- Kent-Gurewitsch from the "Red Orchestra" (Russian)
- Anatoli Markowitsch Gurewitsch: Enlightenment - this is not a game . (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kreisinfo Oberhavel ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.2 MB) Die Linke
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gurevich, Anatoly Markowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gourevitch, Anatoly; Kent (alias) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet agent, officer of the GRU military intelligence service |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkov |
DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 2009 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |