Dieter Popp

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Dieter Popp (* 1938 in Berlin ) was an agent of the Military Intelligence Service (Mil-ND) of the GDR's National People's Army from 1969 to 1990 .

Life

After finishing school, Dieter Popp worked as an insurance employee . He acted in the left-wing intellectual political scene. In the mid-1960s, he also met with Ulrike Meinhof . In 1966 he offered himself to the Enlightenment Administration - between 1964 and 1984 camouflage name of Mil-ND - for cooperation, for which he received more than 110,000 DM in the following years. On January 1, 1969, he moved to Bonn near the Federal Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany on behalf of the Mil-ND .

In 1969 Popp recruited his friend Egon Streffer for the Mil-ND. Defense specialists rated this as “an extremely rare ' Romeo ' case among homosexuals”. While he continued to work as an insurance employee, Egon Streffer applied to the German Armed Forces on behalf of the Mil-ND in 1970 and was placed on the Ministry of Defense's planning staff .

Popp and Streffer, working under the code names “Asriel” and “Aurikel”, smuggled secret documents and assessments into East Berlin for around 20 years . Streffer was responsible for gathering information. As an office assistant in the office of the planning staff, Streffer had the task of registering and copying documents as well as destroying documents that were not needed. This went up to the level of secrecy "TOP SECRET", " NATO -SECRET" and " US TOP SECRET". It was Popp's task to make a preselection, to formulate assessments and to maintain contact with East Berlin.

Streffer died of a heart attack on August 22, 1989 at the age of 44 . According to another source, according to which Streffer died of AIDS , however, are not proven.

Condemnation

After the German reunification and the associated dissolution of the GDR's secret services in 1990, Popp was reported by a former MfS employee.

In 1990 Popp was arrested and spent a year and a half in custody in Koblenz and Cologne . Popp was sentenced to six years imprisonment on December 23, 1991, of which he spent four years from 1990 to 1994 including pre-trial detention in the penal institutions of Hagen and Remscheid . In addition, 70,000  DM forfeiture and 20,000 DM procedural costs were imposed on him. A complaint by Popp against his conviction was rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court , the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva .

After imprisonment

After his release from prison in 1994, Popp was unemployed until retirement in 2003. Since 1995 he has been the chairman of the association, which he co-founded, Scouting for Peace

Popp belongs to the communist platform of the party Die Linke . In 2004 he was a candidate (6th place on the list of proposals) of the PDS for the local elections on September 26, 2004 in Bonn. He received 75 votes (1.7 percent) in his constituency.

Co-publications

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich W. Schlomann: The moles , p. 169.
  2. ^ Friedrich W. Schlomann: The moles , p. 169.
  3. ^ Friedrich W. Schlomann: Die Mole , p. 170.
  4. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective: Former Stasi cadres want to reinterpret their history. (129 kB) In: stiftung-hsh.de . June 7, 2006, archived from the original on June 27, 2013 ; accessed on July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asriel (code name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spy of the military intelligence service of the National People's Army of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin