Horst Meier (agent)

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Horst Meier (* 1925 at Zeitz ; † autumn 2016 ) was a German agent and visual artist.

Meier trained as an electrician and served on the Eastern Front in 1944 during World War II . He remained in captivity for five years . In Riga he attended an antifa school . After his release he graduated from high school, studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as a culture editor in Suhl . He married and had four children with his wife. In 1960 the marriage was divorced.

Later it took Klaus Roesler , a friend from the anti-fascist school in the Main Intelligence (HVA), the foreign intelligence service of the GDR . Under the name of Erwin Miserre (the name of an emigrant from the GDR via the Federal Republic to Canada) he traveled to the Federal Republic and then to Brussels , the seat of NATO . As a resident , he acted as a middleman between the local agents and the headquarters of the HVA. His commanding officer was Karl Rehbaum , to whom the spy Rainer Rupp alias Topas was also subordinate.

In Brussels, Meier attended courses in sculpture and assisted the well-known Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebelle . After the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had found out that the HVA was using the biographies of Germans abroad for agents and there was a risk of exposure, Meier was ordered back to the GDR in 1976. His Belgian girlfriend accompanied him; they married and had two children. Meier lived as an artist in Brandenburg for 40 years. He signed his works with EM , the first letter of his camouflage name. He made a sculpture in 1983 for the HVA boss Markus Wolf . He died at the age of 91 as a care case.

literature

  • Günther Rothe (Ed.): Meier / Miserre. From the shelter of secrecy. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0417-5 .
  • Ulrike Knöfel: The spy who disguised himself as an artist. Der Spiegel No. 43 of October 22, 2016, p. 118 f. (Online) , accessed September 5, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The presentation is based essentially on the specified Spiegel article.
  2. ↑ The spy who loved art: The sculptures by Horst Meier alias Erwin Miserre. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erwin Miserre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret agent and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 2016