Julius Mader

Julius Mader (actually Thomas Bergner * 7. October 1928 in Radzein , Czechoslovakia ; † 17th May 2000 in Berlin ) was a German agitator , who on behalf of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) propaganda against the Federal Republic and other NATO countries.

Life

Julius Mader was born as Thomas Bergner and was the son of an employee. In 1945 the Sudeten German family was expelled from Czechoslovakia to Germany in the Soviet-occupied zone . Mader attended business school. This was followed by training as a textile merchant. He then began studying political science and law , economics and journalism at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the University of Jena and the University of Internal Trade in Leipzig . In 1955 he earned a degree in economics and in 1958 joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Until 1959 he was deputy editor- in- chief at Handel magazine . Then he took up a job in domestic trade.

In 1960 Bergner signed up as a secret employee for the MfS. From then on he worked for the agitation department of the MfS as a freelance writer and was given the code name Julius Mader. From 1962 he was active as an officer in special operations , from 1964 in the rank of major . The German Academy of Law and Political Science "Walter Ulbricht" in Potsdam-Babelsberg doctorate him in 1965 with the work of the intelligence services of the German Federal Republic and its subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic to the Dr. rer. pole. 1970 habilitation Mader at the Humboldt University of Berlin, who together with Albrecht Charisius written work development, system and operation of the imperialist German intelligence .

Mader was given specific information by the MfS for his publications. Many of his writings did not meet scientific standards due to lack of evidence and tendentious presentation under the guidance of the Agitation Department of the MfS. Correct information is available next to half-truths and assumptions, sometimes also next to targeted lies. For example, Mader claimed in his book “The Gray Hand” that the Gehlen organization had been involved in the uprising of June 17, 1953 , which has been scientifically refuted. Mader's writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War . Mader's total of more than 30 books had a total of 120 editions, were translated into 18 languages ​​and sold over five million copies. On Republic Day in 1988, Erich Honecker, Chairman of the State Council, awarded Mader the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Trivia

There was a peculiarity in his writings for the print media of the GDR. Because the book Who's Who in CIA had neither a publisher's name nor a license number. Mader presented himself as the publisher with the address Dr. Julius Mader, 1066 Berlin W 66, Mauerstr. 66 at. Two removable cards were tied into the book. On the one hand you could send corrections and additions to him, on the other you should send him further names of CIA agents or other secret service officials.

Fonts

• Allen's gangsters in action , Berlin 1959 (extended new edition as: gangsters in action - structure and crimes of the American secret service , Berlin 1961)
• Self-service in grocery retail , Berlin 1960
• The gray hand - a settlement with the Bonn secret service , Berlin 1960
• The killers are lurking. A documentary report on the training and use of military diversion and sabotage units in the USA and West Germany , Berlin 1961
• The hunt for the scarred face - a documentary report on Hitler's SS secret service chief Otto Skorzeny , Berlin 1962
• Secret of Huntsville : The Real Career d. Rocket Baron Wernher von Braun , Berlin 1963
• Dr. Worry radio from Tokyo. A documentary report on scouts of peace with selected articles by Richard Sorge with Gerhard Stuchlik and Horst Pehnert , Berlin 1965
• The bandit treasure. A documentary report on Hitler's secret gold and arms treasure , Berlin 1965
• No longer secret - the secret services of the German Federal Republic and their subversive activity against the GDR , Berlin 1966
• Who's who in CIA: A biographical reference work on 3000 employees of the civil and military secret service branches of the USA in 120 countries , Berlin 1968
• (with Albrecht Charisius) No longer a secret: Development, system and working method of the imperialist German secret service . Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1969. (4th, revised edition 1980)
• Hitler's espionage generals say: a documentary report on the construction, structure and operations of the OKW secret service office abroad / defense with a chronology of its operations from 1933 to 1944 . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1970
• Yellow list: where is the CIA? Berlin 1970
• Les Generaux Espions d'Hitler Deposent. Un Allemand de l'est accuse , Paris 1973
• The bandit treasure. A documentary report on Hitler's Germany's secret gold treasure . Revised and supplemented edition, Berlin 1973
• Instruction 37/57. Facts and background to the coup in Chile 1973 , Berlin 1974
• Partisan of the mountains. Life struggle of an Austrian worker (with Sepp Plieseis ), Berlin 1978
• Neo-colonialist practices of the Federal Republic of Germany in relation to Namibi , Berlin 1978
• The NATO conspiracy with the South African racists , Berlin 1978
• NATO backing for Southern Rhodesia's racists , Berlin 1978
• (with Alexander Blank ) Red Orchestra against Hitler . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1979
• CIA in Europe. Nature and criminal work of the US secret service , Berlin 1982
• Dr. Sorge report . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1984. (3rd, revised edition 1986. Also published as: On a secret front: Report on Richard Sorge . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987)
• Pinochet's torture catalog , Hamburg 1986
• CIA Operation Hindu Kush - Secret service activities in the US undeclared war against Afghanistan . Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1988

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Mader, Julius . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Mader in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 559 .
2. ^ Andreas Förster : GDR journalist Julius Mader died. Successful author and Stasi-OibE. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 27, 2000, accessed March 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 26 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 26 f .
5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1988, p. 4