Johanna Olbrich

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Johanna Olbrich (aka Sonja Lueneburg , * 26. October 1926 in Luban , † 18th February 2004 in Bernau bei Berlin ) was a GDR - spy . She worked as a secretary for the FDP Bundestag member William Borm ( IM "Olaf"), the FDP general secretary Karl-Hermann Flach and Federal Minister of Economics Martin Bangemann (FDP).

Life

In the GDR, Johanna Olbrich was initially a teacher and then took over the management of a school. In 1963 she joined the Enlightenment Headquarters (HVA) of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS). In 1967 she sent the HVA to the Federal Republic of Germany via France . It was equipped with the legend of the real West Berlin hairdresser Sonja Lüneburg, who had the state security admitted to a psychiatric clinic and made a psychological wreck with syringes, tablets and electric shocks. In 1969 Olbrich became secretary to the FDP member of the Bundestag William Borm in Bonn , who in turn was an influential agent for the MfS. They knew nothing of each other's MfS connection. After Borm lost his seat in the Bundestag, she switched to the FDP party headquarters. There she sat in the anteroom of the FDP general secretary Karl-Hermann Flach and after his death from 1973 with his successor Martin Bangemann .

When Bangemann became a member of the European Parliament, she remained his secretary in Strasbourg and headed the European election campaign from Bonn. In 1984 she went to the Federal Ministry of Economics with Bangemann and sat in the anteroom of the ministerial office. For years she photographed large numbers of files with a miniature camera. In addition, handwritten or machine-written reports were produced, which were also photographed for the purpose of easier transport. Around two to three films with 36 images each were packed in an envelope each month and channeled eastwards on the toilet of a train. The relationship between the spy and the FDP politician Bangemann was very close. They both spoke on their terms and Olbrich accompanied the Bangemann family on sailing trips into the Mediterranean .

In 1985, Olbrich had to quit her job in Bonn. On a return trip from the GDR via the so-called southern route, she left her handbag with the wrong passports in a Roman taxi out of carelessness. The GDR withdrew them from the Federal Republic. Then she received a premium of 10,000 GDR marks and from then on lived in a prefabricated apartment in Bernau near Berlin. Olbrich was awarded ten orders and decorations from the GDR .

After German reunification , she was exposed by an employee from within her own ranks and arrested on June 11, 1991. She had for two months in custody , was on bail released. Before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , she declared that the awareness that she had “done something right and important” had helped her. She wanted "to secure peace in Europe". In 1992 she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison . In 1994 her sentence was suspended after the revision in a new trial.

The relationship with Martin Bangemann remained friendly. He had greeted her in the courtroom with a handshake in 1992. At Christmas 1999 he sent her a political book on his 65th birthday: “Dear Sonja, ... Your part in the story is only mentioned briefly. Merry Christmas, health and happiness also in 2000. Greetings. "

Olbrich was a member of the PDS . Until her death, Olbrich wrote her memoir, which was published ten years later.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b anteroom lady with a borrowed identity. focus.de, accessed on August 18, 2015 .
  2. ^ Klaus Marxen , Gerhard Werle : Criminal Justice and GDR Injustice . Volume 4, Part 1, p. 71
  3. ↑ Johanna Olbrich alias Sonja Lüneburg confesses . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 22, 1994
  4. ↑ http://bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=2561
  5. ↑ a b Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The spy who came out of the cold . In: Die Welt , August 26, 2013
  6. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from a MfS perspective (review) ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Olbrich, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sonja Lüneburg (code name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spy (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauban
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2004
Place of death Bernau near Berlin