Karl Friediger

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Karl Friediger , later Charles Friediger , (born May 21, 1906 in Munich , † 1984 in the USA ) was an Austro-American intelligence service.

Life and activity

Friediger, whose uncle Markus Friediger was one of the owners of the Vienna Hotel Metropol , is said to have been a functionary of the monarchist-oriented Fatherland Front in Austria until 1938 .

On the occasion of the German occupation of Austria in 1938, he fled across the green border into Czechoslovakia. There he passed himself off as the political representative of Archduke Otto von Habsburg . In addition, he is said to have been in the service of the Polish intelligence service at that time.

In Paris, Friediger was a member of the Ligue Autrichienne under Hans Rott and was instrumental in the negotiations for the formation of the Office Autrichien and the Service National Autrichien.

After the German occupation of France, Friediger emigrated to the United States. There he was proposed as a member of the Austrian National Committee under Rott and Guido Zernatto . He also worked for the American intelligence service OSS. So he stood u. a. in connection with the supervision of the writer Thomas Mann and the Council for a Democratic Germany.

The National Socialist police authorities declared him an enemy of the state: around 1939 he was officially expatriated. In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin - which mistakenly suspected him to be in Great Britain - put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the occupying forces of the occupying forces of the SS with special Priority should be located and arrested.

In 1947 he tried to recruit Margarethe Ottillinger for the American secret service and to organize her escape to the West.

In 1977 Friediger was found in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

literature

  • Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life , p. 197. (Entry on Friediger)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Stephan / Jan Heurck: "Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers , p. 26.
  2. ↑ In the crosshairs of power: the extraordinary life of Margarethe Ottillinger , 2004, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Peaceful, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peaceful, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American intelligence agent
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death United States