Frank Lynder

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Frank Lynder (pseudonym of Franz Leuwer (son) ; * 1916 in Bremen , † 1984 in Kiel ) was a German coffee broker and journalist . Lyndner worked for the British secret service and the Allied-operated German shortwave transmitter Atlantik during the Second World War .

Life

Frank Lynder was the son of the Bremen booksellers couple Franz Leuwer and Johanna Leuwer .

In 1938 he emigrated to London and joined the Royal Pioneer Corps . He got to know the journalist Sefton Delmer and joined his secret organization to set up German-language propaganda stations against Germany. Lynder became a central figure in the German shortwave transmitter Atlantik and provided the British secret service with analyzes of information from the German navy. Delmer wrote about the collaboration with Lynder that, because of Lynder's precise knowledge and intelligence contacts, the moderators were sometimes able to address the crews of individual German submarines that had just departed via the Atlantic and then played them alleged "music requests". Lynder's voice mostly had a characteristic Bremen accent on these programs.

After the war, he received British citizenship, worked briefly at the Reuters news agency and, back in Germany, at Axel Springer Verlag . Here he met his future wife, Inge Springer. From 1954 Lynder was the publisher's correspondent in London and Copenhagen . He created the cartoon character "Detective Schmidtchen" for the picture .

Based on the statements of Max Merten in a trial in Athens , Fritz Bauer opened an investigation against Hans Globke in June 1960 . On June 29, 1961, Lynder and Rolf Vogel broke into Friedrich Karl Kaul's room in the King David Hotel and stole documents, including legal powers of attorney from victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp , in order to appear as co-plaintiffs in the Eichmann trial .

In 1979 Lynder wrote a necrology on Sefton Delmer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Schwarz, Axel Springer: the biography, Propylaen, February 1, 2008 - 733 p., P. 20
  2. ^ Aschenbeck, Nils: 100 years of book and art dealer Franz Leuwer; with a contribution by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Donat (um) 2003, ISBN 978-3-934836-62-4
  3. ↑ The Times, June 6, 1984, obituary for Frank Lyndner, p. 16. This article mentions Lynder's acquaintance with the eventual founder of the Sunday Telegraph , Donald McLachlan . McLachlan worked for the naval intelligence service and its propaganda division NID 17Z. Lyndner translated and analyzed the espionage documents and also used them for his work on the radio.
  4. ↑ See Sefton Delmer's estate
  5. ↑ April 24, 1954, comic research (PDF file; 368 kB)
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel , September 2, 2010, Cold War at the Eichmann Trial, file theft for the Adenauer Republic ; Nils Aschenbeck , reading sample, unwilling agent: Frank Lynder, Axel Springer and the Eichmann files (PDF file; 133 kB); Edited by Ursula E. Koch, Markus Behmer, Deutsche Publizistik im Exil, 1933 to 1945: Personen- Positions , p. 205
  7. ^ Andreas Dornheim, Röhms Mann fürs Ausland , p. 229

literature

  • Nils Aschenbeck: Agent against his will: Frank Lynder, Axel Springer and the Eichmann files. Wiesbaden: Marix, 2012
  • Ellic Howe : The Black Propaganda: An Inside Report on the British Secret Service's most secret operations during World War II , Munich: Beck, 1983
personal data
SURNAME Lynder, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuwer, Franz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and coffee broker
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Kiel