Walter Caro (chemist)
Walter Caro (born June 19, 1909 in Berlin , † August 15, 1988 in West Berlin ) (code name: Kurt Glanz ) was a German chemist and agent of the Soviet military intelligence service GRU .
Life
Caro was a chemist by profession and became a member of the KPD in 1930 , where he worked until 1935 in the BB apparatus (for operational reporting) of the KPD's intelligence service, which had been operating underground before 1933 . There he headed the chemistry department . In 1935 he was ordered to Moscow, where he was assigned to the GRU military intelligence service . From 1936 to 1938 he was on behalf of the Red Army together with Erna Eifler in China . From 1939 to 1951 he worked as a chemist in the USA , where he also had contact with Albert Einstein .
After his emigration, Caro was classified as an enemy of the state by the police forces of National Socialist Germany: in the spring of 1940 he was placed on the special wanted list GB by the Reich Main Security Office , which suspected him to be in Great Britain , a directory of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Island by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupation troops following special commandos of the SS with special priority.
In 1951 he went to the GDR. He first worked in the chemical plant in Eilenburg . Later he was hired as a research assistant in the Physico-Chemical Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Bunsenstrasse, headed by Robert Havemann . In 1963 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin on a topic from protein chemistry suggested by Havemann . Walter Caro was a member of the SED . After his retirement he emigrated to West Berlin in 1972 .
literature
- Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag: Berlin 2007; Page 400ff ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
- Siegfried Grundmann: Einstein's file . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1997
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online [accessed August 19, 2011]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ ENTRY on Walter Caro / Kurt Glanz on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
- ^ Excerpt with a biographical note on Walter Caro, p. 643.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caro, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shine, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and intelligence worker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1988 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |