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Bernd Ingo Alexander Ohnesorge (born May 25, 1944 in Schreiberhau ; † December 17, 1987 in Stara Sagora , Bulgaria ) was a German taxidermist and agent for several intelligence services .

Life

Grave of Bernd Ohnesorge in the central cemetery in Lüneburg

After graduating from high school, Bernd Ohnesorge trained as a taxidermist. Because of the desperate economic situation, he decided to emigrate to the GDR, where he was recruited by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) to work as a foreign agent in West Berlin . Unesorge received an employment contract as a warehouse manager at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport , where special units of the US air force were stationed and Western intelligence services also resided in the airport complex.

In the autumn of 1966, Ohnesorge disclosed this to the British secret service , which then informed the West Berlin criminal police. The police investigations were carried out by the GDR spy Karl-Heinz Kurras , who reported him to the MfS as a defector. However, the reports from Ohnesorge to the MfS were of such inferior quality that the MfS dismissed him for “ deconspiracy and dishonesty”. The following year, Kurras gained dubious notoriety after shooting the demonstrator Benno Ohnesorg while on duty .

In the spring of 1969, Bernd Ohnesorge moved back to live with his parents, who were now living near Lüneburg . There he married and became a father. The marriage failed after a short time. Around 1972 Ohnesorge was living on welfare in Hamburg . A second marriage also failed after a short time in the early 1980s. During this time, Ohnesorge acquired a bogus doctorate and applied unsuccessfully to the Pathological Institute of the Eppendorf University Medical Center as a coroner .

In the spring of 1983 he was recruited by the US secret service CIA and flown to the USA for training. He is also said to have presented himself to the CIA as a coroner with a doctorate, which is why they trained him to work as an agent in Bulgaria . In preparation for the mission, in which an officer was to be recruited in the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense, he was assigned to a Bulgarian forensic doctor who, at the invitation of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Ciba-Geigy, took part in a conference in Hamburg in September 1983 and fell in love, as planned, with no care.

According to the investigations of the political scientist Stefan Appelius , Ohnesorge's first mission in Bulgaria succeeded in January 1984, among other things, by simulating a weakness after his return flight at Berlin-Schönefeld airport in order to avoid the transit control of the GDR authorities. On April 6, 1984, he traveled to Sofia again , where he was noticed by the Bulgarian intelligence service and was arrested.

In April 1985, after a secret military trial in the People's Republic of Bulgaria , Ohnesorge was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The CIA then abandoned its agent and took no further care of him, and the Foreign Office "had the case swept under the carpet".

On December 15, 1987, Unesorge poured detergent on himself and set himself on fire. Two days later he died from the effects of the burns. The corpse was autopsied by forensic doctors from the Federal Republic of Germany and then flown to Germany. Bernd Ohnesorge was buried in the central cemetery in Lüneburg.

literature

  • Stefan Appelius: Death in Bulgaria. The forgotten victims of the Iron Curtain. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03161-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bernd Ohnesorge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Ohnesorge's passport , accessed on March 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Stasi spy Kurras betrayed everyone and everyone. The West Berlin policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras apparently caused considerable damage as a Stasi agent. Not only did he write hundreds of explosive reports. He also revealed a large number of defectors. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. June 6, 2009, accessed March 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, June 6, 2009: Agent Kurras betrayed more than two dozen spies
personal data
SURNAME No worries, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES No worries, Bernd Ingo Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German taxidermist and agent
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Schreiberhau
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1987
Place of death Stara Sagora