Ursel Lorenzen
Ursel Lorenzen , married Sturm , was a NATO employee who was suspected of being an agent of the East German Ministry for State Security .
Lorenzen had been employed as a secretary at NATO headquarters in Brussels since the early 1960s . After investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office , she was recruited by the agent Dieter Will , who had the task of establishing private contact with her and pretending to love her for treason, a so-called Romeo , of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). In 1979, Lorenzen fled to the GDR, presumably because her exposure was imminent due to investigations by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as part of Operation Registration . There she gave reasons of conscience for her espionage activities in a press conference. Lorenzen married Dieter Will and both took the family name "Sturm". Lorenzen and Will denied any activity for the MfS. According to her statement, they had no contact with the MfS and fled to the GDR to warn of the dangers of a nuclear war .
In 1989 the television of the GDR showed the three-part Vera, The difficult path of knowledge about the life of Lorenzen, based on a screenplay by Karl Georg Egel and directed by Horst Seemann .
Lorenzen lived with her husband in the GDR until German reunification . In September 1990, when reunification was imminent, the couple left the country to avoid arrest, as an arrest warrant was still in place in the Federal Republic of Germany . The investigation against Lorenzen ended in 1999.
literature
- Günter Bohnsack : Headquarters Enlightenment: The legend dies. The end of Wolf's secret service. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-25-7 .
- Elisabeth Pfister: Company Romeo. The Stasi love commandos. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-7033-0 .
- Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 , p. 271 ff.
- “Deserved Scouts” , Der Spiegel 29/1991, accessed online on August 10, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Honored Scouts. Espionage. In: DER SPIEGEL. July 15, 1991. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
- ↑ The end of an escape. AGENT HUNTING. In: FOCUS magazine. December 13, 1999, accessed May 11, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lorenzen, Ursel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Secret agent of the Ministry of State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |