Jürgen Rogalla

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Jürgen Rogalla (born February 19, 1933 in Rostock ) is a former colonel in the Enlightenment Headquarters in the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.

Rogalla did a commercial apprenticeship from 1948 to 1951 and worked as a buyer in the Rostock deep-sea fishery. From 1952 Rogalla worked for the MfS and attended a course in Potsdam-Eiche . From October 1953 he worked in the Schwerin district . He completed a law degree via distance learning and in 1959/61 entered the diplomatic service first as an officer on a special assignment , then to the HV A, which deployed him in Ghana as a consultant and MfS agent under President Nkrumah . With the latter's fall, he was arrested in 1966, but was exchanged in 1967 after an exit ban was imposed on the staff of the Ghanaian trade mission in East Berlin and on students from Ghana who also lived there. In Berlin, Rogalla became deputy. Head of Dept. III, received his doctorate in 1971 as Dr. iur. at the Potsdam-Eiche University of Applied Sciences (together with Heinz Günther), became head of Dept. XI (North America / US military) in 1973 and was promoted to colonel in 1975 until he was released in 1990. He then received several offers from Western secret services ( CIA and others) to cooperate, which he refused. He was also involved in recruiting top agent Rainer Rupp .

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  1. ^ Hermann Wentker: Foreign policy within narrow limits: The GDR in the international system 1949-1989 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 293
  2. Klaus Marxen / Gerhard Werle : Criminal Justice and GDR Injustice : Spionage , Volume 4/2, De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, p. 942ff