Klaus von Raussendorff
Klaus von Raussendorff (* 1936 ) was a German diplomat of the Federal Republic and a spy for the GDR State Security .
Life
Klaus von Raussendorff was born as the son of an authorized signatory employed by Krupp in Essen and grew up in a middle-class family. After leaving school, he studied at the Free University of Berlin , where he had his first contacts with West Berlin communist groups.
In 1957 von Raussendorff became a spy of the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR (code name "Brede") and was purposefully smuggled into the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
From 1961 to 1990 he was a German diplomat, deputy head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to UNESCO in Paris , most recently a lecturer in the Legation Council . At the same time he was lieutenant colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. The HVA rewarded him with at least 100,000 marks.
Conviction for treason
In the spring of 1990 he was exposed and arrested after his former MfS command officer had given the real names and service titles of HVA spies in return for a payment of 125,000 DM and protection from prosecution. In 1991 von Raussendorff was sentenced to six years imprisonment for treason by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, which he served in the Wittlich correctional facility , from 1993 as a freelance worker with a job as a research assistant at the Chair of Sociology ( Bernd Hamm ) at the University of Trier .
After imprisonment
After his early release from prison in 1994, he continued to work at the University of Trier until he retired in 1999. Since then he has worked part-time as a freelance journalist, particularly for communist magazines. He wrote u. a. in the magazine Intifada No. 27 of the Anti-Imperialist Coordination . He himself publishes the anti-imperialist correspondence . He is an employee of the federal board of the German Freethinkers Association .
Von Raussendorff is a widower and has three children.
Political activity
- 1964 member of the SED
- 1995–1998 Co-founder and coordinator of the initiative group Scouts of Peace demand law in the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support e. V. (GRH) . Since 1998 spokesman for this initiative group.
- Editor of the Anti-Imperialist Correspondence
- Participation in International Yugoslavia Solidarity and in the Free Slobo Committee , which campaigned for the release of Slobodan Milošević .
- Participation in the International Committee for the Protection of the Palestinian People
- Co-founder of the German section of the International Campaign for the Release of Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian political prisoners
- Member of the Federal Peace Council Committee
Publications
- Klaus Eichner / Gotthold Schramm (ed.): Scouts in the west. Top sources of the GDR Enlightenment remember . Edition ost , Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-360-01049-3 (as co-author)
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann : The moles. They are still with us, the Stasi helpers in the west . Universitasverlag, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-800-41285-3
- Heribert Schwan , Helgard Heindrichs: The spider web. Stasi agents in the west: The secret files of the rosewood file , Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-77732-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan von Flocken: BOOK DEVELOPMENT: Hardworking lackeys of the Stasi. In: Focus Online . December 19, 1998. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ^ German-German help . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1990 ( online - 23 April 1990 ).
- ↑ http://www.antiimperialista.org/de/node/5997
- ↑ http://www.aikor.de/impress.htm
- ↑ http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2004/39/13715.html
- ↑ speakers
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raussendorff, Klaus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat of the Federal Republic and spy for the GDR State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |