Vera Schalburg

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Vera Schalburg (born November 23, 1907 in Barnaul ( Siberia ), † February 8, 1946 in Hamburg ) was a German agent .

Life

Vera Schalburg was the daughter of the Danish businessman August Theodor Schalburg; her brother was the Nazi activist Christian Frederik von Schalburg . She was the granddaughter of a tsarist admiral.

After emigrating from Russia in 1917, Vera von Schalburg came to Copenhagen and then to Paris . There she worked under the name Vera de Cottany-Chalbur as a dancer in the Folies Bergère . In the 1930s she got into Soviet intelligence circles , who blackmailed and mistreated her. She contacted the defense through her brother . The German secret service officer Hilmar Dierks fell in love with her and brought her to Hamburg , from where she worked for the German foreign secret service .

When the Wehrmacht was preparing the invasion of England after the victory over France , Vera Schalburg was assigned to a spy group and on the night of 29./30. September 1940 with two other spies ( Karl-Theodor Drücke and Robert Petter alias Werner Heinrich Wälti ) dropped from a seaplane 150 m off the Scottish coast (Operation Lena). The group was quickly captured by the English. The two men were executed . Vera von Schalburg remained in British captivity until 1945 and went into hiding after 1945. Her further fate is unknown.

The chief agent leader in Hamburg, Nikolaus Ritter , wrote about Vera Schalburg in 1972: “She was one of our most remarkable and most beautiful agents. There was hardly a man who was not carried away by her. ”According to Kirstine Kloster Andersen in her book Spurven , published in 2018, Vera died under the name Vera Von Wedel on February 8, 1946 at 4 o'clock in the morning of pneumonia in the Hamburger Marienkrankenhaus and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. The research result is the result of many years of research in Denmark, Germany and England. Vera didn't add the "from" to her name like her brothers.

reception

Her story was published in 2012 under the title The Beautiful Spy. filmed by Miguel Alexandre based on a screenplay by Annette Hess ; among others with Valerie Niehaus as Vera and Fritz Karl as Hilmar Dierks. On December 27, 2013, he was entitled The spy in the ARD broadcast for the first time.

literature

  • Mikkel Kirkebæk: Vera Den Danske Spy . In: Schalburg: en patriotisk landsforræder . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2011, ISBN 978-87-02-08097-1 , pp. 153–180 (Danish, books.google.de - excerpt ).
  • Kirstine Kloster Andersen: Spurven. The dramatic history of spies Vera Schalburg . Storyhouse Lindhardt og Ringhof, Copenhagen 2018, ISBN 978-87-11-90056-7 , p. 403 (Danish, [1] ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Politiets registerblade. politietsregisterblade.dk, May 1, 1920, accessed July 15, 2018 (Danish, ID: 2474147).
  2. ↑ Günther Stiller: Where do Vera Schalburg's tracks lead. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 11, 2007 ( abendblatt.de ).
  3. ↑ The beautiful spy. viennafilmcommission.at, accessed on July 15, 2018 .
  4. ^ The first: Start of shooting: "The beautiful spy" (AT) with Valerie Niehaus and Fritz Karl. March 15, 2012, accessed March 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Hörzu No. 8 of February 15, 2013, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Schalburg, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eriksen, Vera; Erikson, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agent
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnaul ( Siberia )
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1946
Place of death Hamburg