Volker Weingraber
Volker Weingraber (born December 3, 1942 in Berlin ) is a former undercover agent of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In the 1970s, the then pimp and petty criminal worked as an informant under the cover names "Vienna" and "Karl Heinz Goldmann" for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and mainly provided information about the terrorist organization Movement June 2nd .
Life
Volker Weingraber is the son of Herbert Weingraber , a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig , and grandson of the kuk Lieutenant Colonel in Infantry Regiment No. 102 Stefan Weingraber , who was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility in 1916 by Emperor Franz Joseph as " Edler von Grodek " . After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the family went to the nobility repeal Act 1919, the ennoblement lost. Volker Weingraber posed as a member of the June 2nd Movement and set up contact with Brigitte Heinrichfor which he should go to Milan and contact the Red Brigades .
Ulrich Schmücker
In June 1974 the Berlin student Ulrich Schmücker, also an undercover agent for the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was shot allegedly as a traitor. In the more than 15 year long Schmücker trial , it became known that Weingraber had informed the common undercover agent Michael Grünhagen about the acute threat to Schmücker a few days before the murder. After the murder, Weingraber handed over the murder weapon to him, which then disappeared in a safe of the constitution protection and did not reappear until May 1989. These and other entanglements by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution finally led to the unsuccessful termination of the process in 1991.
Further happening
In 1979 Weingraber's agent activity became public, whereupon he received 500,000 D-Marks to go into hiding and build a new life for himself. With the money he bought a winery in Tuscany. When this camouflage was also exposed in 1986 and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution feared acts of revenge, he received another 450,000 marks in 1987 for another change of identity. However, Weingraber stayed in Italy and invested the money in his winery. The Berlin tax authorities have been suing Weingraber at a civil court in Florence since 1994 for repayment of the money paid in 1987. During the trial, Weingraber stated that it was impossible for him to go into hiding again because only he himself had received new papers, but not his wife and their son. In the spring of 2002, the state of Berlin lost the procedure and the revision.
Web links
- SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA - CAMERA DEI DEPUTATI ( Memento from January 29, 2012 on WebCite )
- Tagesspiegel: "Vienna" does not want to pay , from January 24, 2002
- Red Brigades and RAF - Terror in Italy and Germany
- Protection of the Constitution: Even more money for nothing? . Answer of the Senate of June 18, 2007 to the minor question in the Berlin House of Representatives . Printed matter 16/10831 (PDF file; 86 kB)
- Payments by the State of Berlin to the Tuscany V-Mann . Answer of the Senate of December 2, 2015 to the minor question in the Berlin House of Representatives . Printed matter 17/17390 (PDF file; 15 kB)
- Katz und Maus ( Memento from November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Jungle World on July 7, 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. / I. Ferenc József király (1914–1916) . Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-9504153-2-2 , p. 70.
- ↑ Otto Diederichs: The stamina of the undercover agent ( Memento from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). taz - the daily newspaper, March 16, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weingraber, Volker |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goldmann, Karl Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German intelligence officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |