Willi Pohl (writer)

Willi Pohl (* 1944 ) (pseudonym EW Pless and since 1979 also the official name Willi Voss ) is a German writer .

In the 1970s, as a neo-Nazi and member of the PLO, he procured weapons for Palestinian terrorist attacks.

Life

Pohl grew up in the Ruhr area. Before writing, he worked as a worker, librarian and journalist. In the 1970s he was a member of the German neo-Nazi scene with ties to the criminal milieu and to Palestinian liberation and terrorist organizations. The contact was established by the neo-Nazi Udo Albrecht , with whom Pohl had been friends for a number of years. As a PLO member, he organized weapons for Palestinian terrorist squads in Germany.

Pohl helped the terrorist of the Palestinian organization Black September Abu Daud in the planning and execution of the Olympic attack , according to his own information, ignorant. After the attack, he was picked up at the end of October 1972 with weapons and a threatening letter from Black September . “Despite the overwhelming evidence, Pohl was sentenced to two years and two months imprisonment in 1974 only for illegally possessing weapons. Four days after the judge's verdict, the terrorist accomplice was free again and fled to Beirut . ”Decades ago, Pohl broke away from terrorism.

In December 2012, Der Spiegel reported that, according to his own account, Pohl had been spying on the headquarters of the PLO secret service as an agent for the CIA since 1975 . Under the code name Ganymede, he is said to have provided information on attacks in the Middle East and Europe and on the cooperation between the neo-Nazi Udo Albrecht and his accomplices with the Palestinians.

After a stay in the Middle East, he wrote as a freelance writer, mostly under his current name Willi Voss, but sometimes also under the pseudonym EW Pless, Western stories and Jerry Cotton novels, as well as a number of detective novels and political thrillers. a. have been published by Bastei-Lübbe and Ullstein Verlag .

He also wrote script templates for films in the series Großstadtrevier and Tatort (including Stoever's Fall and Singvogel ).

For his novel opponents he was awarded in the Konsalik novel prize competition. With the book Das Gesetz des Dschungel (The Law of the Jungle) , he received third place in the national evaluation of the German crime prize in 1989 .

Works

As EW Pless

• Blinded. From the authentic papers of a terrorist Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1979. ISBN 3-7263-6217-7
• Opponent. Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1983. ISBN 3-7263-6377-7
• Signum F. Rehkugler u. Voss, Reutlingen 1986. ISBN 3-926062-00-2

As Willi Voss

• Tears do not protect against murder. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982. ISBN 3-404-36059-1
• Chill in the blood. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984. ISBN 3-404-37016-3
• It dies by itself. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984. ISBN 3-404-37022-8
• No tears for the victim. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985. ISBN 3-404-37033-3
• Fools die lonely too. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986. ISBN 3-404-10778-0
• The law of the jungle. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1988. ISBN 3-548-10565-3
• The night, death. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1990. ISBN 3-548-10658-7
• Gate of death. Pendragon, Bielefeld 2009. ISBN 978-3-86532-154-1
• Bitter blood. Sutton, Erfurt 2011. ISBN 978-3-86680-958-1
• UnterGrund aavaa, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-944223-00-1

Television scripts

• Stoever's case , crime scene, 1992
• The River Pirate, Metropolitan Area, 1992
• Built on poison, metropolitan area, 1992
• Songbird , crime scene, 1994
• Crashkids, Metropolitan Area, 1995

Web links

• Literature by and about Willi Voss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Willi Voss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography at krimilexikon.de
• Willi Pohl on the German crime street
• Willi Voss author page
• 1972 Olympia assassination German neo-Nazi procured cars and passports ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Interview of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation with Willi Pohl from July 23, 2012
• Arafat's Söldner - The Three Lives of Willi Pohl (film by Egmont R. Koch for ZDF-History , first broadcast on June 14, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willi Voss. The author ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Der Spiegel of September 7, 1981: Dr. Schreck and the neo-Nazis .
3. ↑ Herfried Münkier: Terrorism: The logic of violence . In: The time . No. 26/1980 ( online ).
4. ^ Assassination attempt at the 1972 Olympics "I wanted to win, as effectively as possible" , FAZ from July 21, 2012 , accessed on July 26, 2012
5. ^ German neo-Nazis helped Olympic bombers .
6. ↑ Der Spiegel from December 30th, 2012: Terrorist helper of the Olympic assassins '72 became a CIA agent