Lorenz Betzing
Lorenz Betzing (born November 27, 1930 in Andernach ; † July 3, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German spy at the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) of the GDR State Security Service .
Personal
Betzing was divorced and had two children. Later life companion was the GDR spy Ursula Richter (actually Erika Reissmann), who was most recently chief secretary at the Bund der Vertrieben (BdV) in Bonn. Richter had been smuggled from the GDR into the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the 1960s. She died in Berlin in 2002 .
Professional career
The trained plumber and locksmith first worked in the mining industry in Wattenscheid and in Wallonia , Belgium , where he started a family. He later worked in mines in the Belgian Congo until the civil war in the now independent Democratic Republic of the Congo . After his return to Germany, he worked from 1964 to 1969 as a ventilation technician in the Marienthal government bunker . In 1966 he was recruited by his acquaintance and later partner Richter to spy for the GDR foreign intelligence service. Then Betzing worked for three years at an elevator construction company as a fitter in the Bundeshaus Bonn and at the US Labor Service in Karlsruhe in the telecommunications system as a cable solderer (1972–1978). From 1978 to 1980 he was employed by the private security service INTERSCHUTZ Gesellschaft für Sicherheitsfragen mbH Bonn, where he worked as a civil security guard in z. T. security-sensitive Bundeswehr objects (such as Army Office , Armed Forces Office , Medical Office of the Bundeswehr and Defense District Command Bonn) used in the Bonn area. Until his escape in 1985 he worked as an office messenger at the Bundeswehr Administration Office / Office for Data Processing of the Bundeswehr in Bonn-Beuel.
Escape to the GDR
In 1985 the mission was ended for security reasons in connection with the "secretary affair" and the defector Hansjoachim Tiedge and Betzing initially went to East Berlin with Richter . After German reunification , he fled to the Soviet Union .
When Betzing returned to Berlin, criminal proceedings were opened for treason . Because of his serious illness, the proceedings were suspended and ultimately discontinued. Betzing last lived as a pensioner in Berlin-Köpenick.
Works
- Klaus Eichner / Gotthold Schramm (ed.): Scouts in the west. Top sources of the GDR Enlightenment remember. With a foreword by Markus Wolf and Werner Großmann (co-authors). Edition Ost , Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-360-01049-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Betzing, Lorenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German spy (GDR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Then after |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 2004 |
| Place of death | Berlin |