Hans-Joachim Bamler

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Hans-Joachim Bamler (born July 13, 1925 in Berlin ; † April 24, 2015 in Neuruppin ) was a German spy for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in France . He was resident of the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) in Paris , was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in 1966 for espionage for the GDR and released in 1974 as part of an exchange of agents .

Life

Hans-Joachim Bamler's father was Rudolf Bamler , who worked in the Foreign Office and Defense until 1938 . His mother was a nurse . Bamlers mother was in guilt by association taken after her husband in 1944 as a lieutenant general of the German Wehrmacht in Soviet captivity for German federal officers (BDO) and National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD) had converted. She died in June 1945 of the consequences of imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and a so-called death march to Tyrol .

Bamler attended elementary school in Königsberg and Berlin-Steglitz until 1935 and the secondary school in Berlin , Vienna and Sopot until his Abitur in 1943 . In 1943 he joined the NSDAP . Bamler fought in World War II until 1945 and achieved the rank of lieutenant . In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans , but was released after the war. From 1945 to 1949 he completed an apprenticeship as a dyer and film printer at the film printing company Müller and Schulten in Stuttgart and then became a student at a textile engineering school in Reutlingen .

In 1950 Bamler moved to the GDR , settled in the town of Eggesin and became an officer of the barracked people's police there . From 1955 to 1962 he took on various functions as a program designer or advertising manager in the cultural sector in Berlin.

From 1963 Bamler worked in the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. From 1964 to 1966 he was resident of the HVA in Paris . In 1966 Bamler was arrested by the French police and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for espionage for a foreign power. Bamler's wife Marianne Bamler also worked for the GDR as an intelligence service, was arrested with him and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. In September 1974 there was an exchange of agents , Bamler was released and was allowed to travel to the GDR. From 1974 to 1979 he worked as an employee of the HVA in the MfS in Berlin and retired with the rank of major . Hans-Joachim Bamler died on April 24, 2015, three months before he would have turned 90, in Neuruppin , Brandenburg .

Fonts

literature

  • Peter Böhm: Spy at NATO. Hans-Joachim Bamler, the first resident of the HVA in Paris . Edition Ost, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-360-01856-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Bamler's own statement in the questionnaire of the head office for training of September 28, 1950 p. 3.
  2. ↑ a b Conversation with Hans-Joachim Bamler at www.triller-online.de, accessed on September 6, 2012
  3. ↑ How an Ex-Spy Invented Agent Exchange , Die Welt, July 9, 2010, accessed September 6, 2012
  4. ↑ Klaus Eichner, Gotthold Schramm (Ed.): Kundschafter im Westen , Rosemarie Müller-Streisand review, accessed on June 12, 2013
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bamler died. Report on jungewelt.de from April 24, 2015 (accessed April 24, 2015).
  6. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Bamler, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer of the GDR MfS, spy for the GDR in France
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2015
Place of death Neuruppin