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Reiner Paul Fülle (born December 26, 1938 in Zwickau ; † October 9, 2010 ) was a German agent , initially at the Enlightenment Office of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR and later at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).

Life

Fülle came from Zwickau and was recruited as an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security during a visit to relatives in Thuringia . As an accountant at the Karlsruhe Research Center , he later revealed under the code name IM Klaus (Reg.No. XV / 205/66) mainly details from the reprocessing technology of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On January 19, 1979, Fülle was arrested in connection with statements made by Werner Stiller , an MfS defector . When he was transferred from Karlsruhe to Bonn for questioning, Fülle was able to escape the following day, among other things because the BKA officer accompanying him slipped on black ice. In addition, contrary to service regulations, Fülle was only accompanied by one officer and not tied up. After hiding in the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe for a day , he escaped to Baden-Baden and was brought into the GDR in a wooden box via the Herleshausen border crossing at Zeppelinstrasse 19 by helpers from the Soviet military liaison mission . This escape earned him the nickname Glatteisspion in the German media .

Because he subsequently delivered material about the GDR security apparatus to Cologne for a long time, the BfV organized "Operation Veronika" and made it possible for him to return to the Federal Republic of Germany. On September 5, 1981, Fülle returned with false papers in the name of “Hermann Sander” and a flight ticket from Budapest to Athens to Frankfurt / Main. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court later sentenced him to six years ' imprisonment for treason .

literature

• Heiner Emde: Espionage and Defense in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1979 to today , Bastei-Lübbe paperback, ISBN 3-404-65071-9
• Hansjoachim Tiedge : The defector. A life confession . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-360-00863-4
• Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 , p. 154 ff.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs (ed.): Inofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security. Tape. 2. Links, Berlin 1996, p. 190
• Ulrich Hinse : The Black Ice Agent - A story from the Cold War era . Edition digital, Pinnow 2015, ISBN 978-3-95655-252-6
• Active repentance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1984 ( online report on the trial against abundance).
• I was the nuclear spy for East Berlin . ( Memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt , October 19, 1981, p. 8; Descriptions of pure fullness.
• Small request to the German Bundestag on the case of GDR agent Reiner Paul Fülle (PDF; 209 kB). May 4, 1984. Bundesdrucksache 10/1413
• Werner Stiller : Der Doppelagent - Autobiographie , Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 1st edition (2013), ISBN 978-3-86789-192-9 : The following pages on IM Klaus : p. 120, p. 134, p. 139, P. 150, p. 155, p. 165, p. 178 f., P. 234.

Web links

• The spider web, documentary about GDR spies (2005/2017) , film (MDR, copy on YouTube), film sequence from minute 31 to minute 36 of the film: Werner Stiller alias Peter Fischer reports on Fülle's espionage activities at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (KfK) .
• Small request from the member of parliament Erika Hickel in the Bundestag, printed matter 10/1413 from 04.05.84

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Seidel: Lunch with Mielke . In: New Germany . March 3, 2016, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 17 .
2. ^ Walter Grasskamp: Strange Museum Visits . CH Beck, 2006, p. 148 ff.
3. ^ Klaus Behling: Spies in Uniform: The Allied Military Missions in Germany . Hohenheim, 2004, pp. 125-127