Hilde Kruger

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Meeting of the Reichsfilmkammer in the comradeship of German artists in Berlin on March 4, 1938; from left: Fita Benkhoff , the Reichsfilmdramaturg Ewald von Demandowsky and Hilde Krüger.

Hilde Krüger (actually Katharina Mathilde Krüger, also Hilda Krüger; born November 9, 1912 in Cologne-Kalk , † May 8, 1991 in Lichtenfels ) was a German actress and spy . She worked for the Nazi state in the United States and in Mexico .

Live and act

Hilde Krüger was probably born on November 9, 1912 in Cologne-Kalk, although other sources also speak of September 11, 1914 and Berlin as the city of birth.

Hilde Krüger played one of her first film roles in the 1935 film Just don't get soft, Susanne! , After which Joseph Goebbels to their patrons, other sources speak of lovers, was. In the following years she was seen in numerous UFA productions .

Shortly after the start of the Second World War , Krüger left Germany to continue her career in Hollywood . From January 1940 she lived in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel , the rent allegedly paid by her admirer J. Paul Getty . Although Kruger no longer played film roles in the United States, she gained some prominence within the higher society of Los Angeles. There she met Gert von Gontard, the heirs of the brewery Budweiser , know and began with him a romance. For a year she lived between Hollywood and St. Louis , where Gontard owned breweries.

In 1940, Krüger was recruited as an agent by the Abwehr , Germany's military intelligence service. In February 1941, Hilde Krüger went to Mexico City , disguised with an American identity, with the task of establishing relationships with members of the new cabinet . There she first made the acquaintance of Ramón Beteta, State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, and later she became the mistress of Interior Minister Miguél Alemán . She also established relationships with General Juán Almazán and Foreign Minister Ezekiel Padilla.

Kruger remained active as an actress. In the following years she played in several Mexican productions under the name Hilda Krüger.

In March 1942, Krüger, like many other German spies, was arrested following information from the United States. However, she was released soon after, presumably because of her good political connections. She married Nacho de la Torre, the grandson of former President Porfirio Díaz , to prevent her deportation.

She finally left her husband to go to Spain with the tycoon Julio Lobo, the "Sugar King of Havana". She later married Lobo, but they divorced after a year.

She died in 1991 on a visit to Germany; the death certificate indicates an apartment in New York City as the residence.

Filmography

  • 1934: Playing with fire
  • 1935: Peter, Paul and Nanette
  • 1935: You and the three
  • 1935: Just don't get soft, Susanne!
  • 1935: Noise about Weidemann
  • 1935: Stradivarius
  • 1935: A sea voyage is fun
  • 1936: The little Hermännchen. No, no, what not there
  • 1936: incognito
  • 1938: The man who can't say no
  • 1938: The stars shine
  • 1938: A woman comes to the tropics
  • 1939: Rhenish bridal trip
  • 1939: Up and down
  • 1942: Casa de mujeres
  • 1945: Adulterio
  • 1945: Bartolo toca la flauta
  • 1945: El que murió de amor
  • 1958: A trip on the Rhine is fun

Documentation

  • La Red Nazi en México by Sebastián Gamba, Mexico 2010

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Biographical data from: Thomas Blubacher: Liberation from Reality? The play at the Stadttheater Basel 1933–1945. Edition Theaterkultur, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-908145-27-9 , p. 104. The same date of birth can also be found in Kosch's Theaterlexikon (1960). It is unclear where the different information in the IMDb (there: * September 11, 1914) comes from.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Airen : Notorious Nazi spy: the art of seduction was her weapon. In: one day . May 10, 2013, accessed May 18, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Biography for Hilde Krüger. Retrieved May 13, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Hilda Kruger. In: exordio.com. December 24, 2004, accessed May 13, 2013 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Vogel: Book "The Nazis in Mexico": BDM skirts in the German house. In: the daily newspaper . August 11, 2008, accessed May 13, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Rafael Rojas: "The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon" by John Paul Rathbone . In: Americas Quarterly . Vol. 5, No. April 2, 2011.
  7. ^ Carmen Muñoz: Julio Lobo, el Napoleón de Cuba. In: ABC . July 31, 2011, accessed May 13, 2013 .
  8. ↑ A ride on the Rhine that's funny (1958) ( English ) IMDb . May 19, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Katharina Mathilde (real name); Kruger, Hilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and spy
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Kalk
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1991
Place of death Lichtenfels