Paul Münstermann

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Paul Münstermann (born June 18, 1932 - August 30, 2010 ) was an employee of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). He became known through an espionage affair .

Life

Paul Münstermann switched from the Bundespost to the BND in 1967 . There he was initially responsible for "strategic letter control" (letters from countries of the Soviet bloc). His code name at the time was "Heidegger".

With the protection of the CSU , after the change of power in Bonn ( Schmidt - Kohl ) , the CSU member Münstermann became head of Department 5 (security) and in 1986, against the resistance of President Wieck, vice-president.

In 1989 he was investigated internally by the BND in connection with a 1987 business trip to Indonesia . While, according to the BILD newspaper, he tried to settle the costs of a prostitute he had taken with him , other sources indicate that Münstermann was either “pampered with love services by the Indonesian secret service” or got prostitutes from local BND residents.

On September 1, 1994, Münstermann had to retire prematurely as Vice President of the BND when it emerged that he had passed on secret material to the journalist Gerhard Baumann , who was close to the CSU, through the former BND department head Kurt Weiß (code name Winterstein) . Baumann, who has been listed as " IM Schwarz" by the GDR's foreign intelligence service since 1956 , later claimed to have been recruited "under a false flag" in his court proceedings. Baumann assumed he would sell the material to French security groups.

In connection with the passing on of secret files to CSU ministers, a house search was carried out at Münstermann in March 1997 "to find BND letter telegrams and current foreign policy information".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the SZ from September 25, 2010
  2. ↑ Arrest in the toilet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 2009 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hot patch Jakarta . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1989 ( online ).
  4. ^ Secret services: Carnation in bed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1993 ( online ).
  5. ↑ BND vice retires . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 22, 1994
  6. ↑ Baumann took over in 1941 in the Essen publishing house , the book Principles and practice of international propaganda published
  7. ^ Secret services: For Strauss personally . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1994 ( online ).
  8. ^ Secret services: Fleurop for Amigos . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1997 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Munster man, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German intelligence agent, employee at the Federal Intelligence Service (BND)
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1932
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2010