Peter Wolter

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Peter Caspar Wolter (born June 18, 1947 ; † November 21, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and former agent for the intelligence department of the GDR State Security .

Life

Wolter grew up in Münster and, after graduating from high school in 1966, committed himself to serve as a temporary soldier in the German Armed Forces . He completed the career of officers in the German Navy , was among other things in action as a combat swimmer and left the military after four years as a lieutenant at sea . During his time as a soldier, he worked for marine magazines.

He then studied journalism , sociology and philosophy in Münster and at the Free University of Berlin and finished his studies in 1976 with a master's thesis on Deutschlandfunk . After training as a news editor, Wolter worked for various press agencies , including dpa in Hamburg , Düsseldorf and Essen , ddp in Bonn and, most recently, until his arrest in 1991 as head of the service at Reuters in Hamburg.

From 1973 until its dissolution, Wolter worked for the GDR's foreign intelligence service, the Central Enlightenment Administration (HVA) as an agent under the code name “Oriole” for seventeen years . From 1973 he was also a member of the MSB-Spartakus , the DKP and the Socialist Unity Party West Berlin (SEW), but broke off these contacts on the order of the HVA and appeared as a right-wing SPD sympathizer. From November 1978 to October 1987 he passed on documents from his professional activity as an agency journalist. By June 1989 he provided internal findings from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

After his conviction in 1994 by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court to two years' suspended prison sentence , Wolter initially worked as a freelance journalist, including for a German-language daily newspaper on the Canary Islands . After his return to Germany in 1994 he co-founded the street magazine “outside!” In Münster together with Karl-Heinz Welten and the social worker Gunther Braun , to which the non-profit association “outside!” E. V. was created. In the local elections in 1999 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city council for the DKP in Münster.

Since 2004 Wolter was head of the interview department of the Berlin daily Junge Welt and took over the internal politics department in September 2005 as the successor to Ulla Jelpke . He also wrote articles for the Marxist papers .

Fonts

  • Agent romance? In: Klaus Eichner , Gotthold Schramm (Ed.): Scouts in the West. Top sources of the GDR Enlightenment remember . 2., corr. Edition, Berlin 2003. Edition Ost
  • War propaganda. The mother of all lies , in: Marxist papers (January 14, 2004)

literature

  • Nicole Glocke : On behalf of US military intelligence and the GDR secret service: the life stories of two opposing agents in the Cold War. With CD: Dr. Peter Jochen Winters in conversation with Dr. Hannes Sieberer and Peter Wolter . Köster, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-725-0

Movie

  • West agents for the Stasi , TV documentary by Carsten Günther, WDR TV 2016, 45 minutes, first broadcast on March 23, 2016 on ARD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Stefan Huth: Junge Welt.de: colleague »Oriole«. On Wednesday Peter Wolter, jW editor, scout, comrade and friend , " Junge Welt ", died on November 24th, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Pious Spies Der Spiegel 47/2011
  3. ↑ a b Ex-Agent Peter Wolter, founder of the homeless newspaper "Draußen", has no regrets Westfälische Nachrichten , April 16, 2011
  4. ↑ Comrade "Oriole" - one last greeting , from Dieter W. Feuerstein , Our Time November 30, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Peter Wolter , Tlaxcala , accessed on December 19, 2018
  6. ^ The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR (ed.): Head Office A (HV A). Tasks - structures - sources. (MfS manual) . Berlin 2013, p. 195 ( PDF ).
  7. ↑ On the 70th birthday of Peter Wolter Junge Welt, June 17, 2017
  8. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from a MfS perspective (review) ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
  9. ^ Western agents for the Stasi , programm.ard.de
  10. ↑ Karin Völker: Documentation about GDR agents: The Stasi in Münster , Westfälische Nachrichten , March 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wolter, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolter, Peter Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and agent of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1947
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2018
Place of death Berlin