Volker Foertsch

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Volker Foertsch (* 1934 ; † April 2018) was a German secret service employee who was employed as a director (department head) at the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) until 1998 . He went by the code name Fleming .

Life

Foertsch joined the BND predecessor Organization Gehlen in 1953 . Promoted to department head in 1989, from June 1989 to February 1994 he headed Department I (Procurement), whose area of ​​responsibility is source management. From 1994 to 1998 he was Head of Department V (Security). Volker Foertsch was also temporarily director of the German stay-behind organizations supported by the BND .

According to media reports, Foertsch is one of the main participants in the journalist scandal , the spying of journalists by the BND in Germany. He is said to have established contact with critical journalists and then “skimmed” them off.

In the so-called "Rübezahl affair", Foertsch was accused by his own employees of being an informant for the Russian domestic secret service FSB . These allegations came from BND employee Norbert Juretzko , who wanted to have received them from a Russian source (code name Rübezahl). Juretzko has written two books on this subject ( Im Visier and Conditionally Ready for Service , both in collaboration with Wilhelm Dietl ). The BND then had Foertsch monitored for 16 months with the support of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . On the basis of the incriminating evidence, the BND switched on the federal prosecutor's office after consulting the Chancellery . However, just a few days later on May 12, 1998, the latter dropped the proceedings because the suspicion had been dispelled (Section 170 (2 ) StPO ). The case was handed over to the Munich public prosecutor's office, which after a short time brought charges of fraud against Juretzko and another employee. For fraud and forgery of documents in connection with the information allegedly provided by "Rübezahl", the Munich Regional Court I sentenced Juretzko on January 21, 2003 to eleven months' probation. At his own request, Foertsch had himself retired early, six and a half months before he would turn 65.

Foertsch was a member of the board of the German Intelligence Service Discussion Group (GKND) based in Berlin and lived in Munich. He passed away in April 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cloudy soup . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 2006 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c At the source. Did the former BND director Volker Foertsch spy for the Russians? In: Berliner Zeitung . May 13, 2003 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  3. ↑ The shadow warriors of NATO . ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Documentary by Ulrich Stoll, ZDF Info from March 25, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  4. ↑ The explorer . Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 16, 2005; Retrieved November 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Az. 3 BJs 30 / 98-2 (2) of May 12, 1998 at the Attorney General
  6. ↑ 5th criminal chamber of the LG Munich I on January 21, 2003, Az. 5 Kls III OJs 202/2000
  7. ↑ GKND Executive Board , accessed on January 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Foertsch, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret service agent
DATE OF BIRTH 1934