Winfried Baumann (officer)
Winfried Baumann (born May 17, 1930 in Scharley as Winfried Zakrzowski, † July 18, 1980 in Leipzig ) was a German frigate captain . In his last military service he was department head of the intelligence administration at the MfNV of the GDR before he was released in 1970 for alcoholism .
From around 1977 he worked for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). He forwarded the news by letters to cover addresses of the BND. Together with his partner , he was exposed by the MfS during the intensive surveillance of the postal traffic from the GDR and arrested in June 1979. Baumann was sentenced to death on July 9, 1980 . After rejection of his plea for mercy Baumann was in the prison Leipzig (Alfred-Kästner-Straße) transferred . In which "the central place of execution " converted caretaker's judgment was executioner Hermann Lorenz by headshotcarried out. The corpse was then taken to the crematorium at the Leipzig South Cemetery and cremated there; the ashes were anonymously buried in the cemetery area.
His partner, the divorced doctor Christa-Karin Schumann, who had established contact with the BND through her relatives in the Federal Republic and who had actively participated in the transmission of the news, received a 15-year prison sentence and was ransomed in 1987 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Classic case , Der Spiegel 15/1987, April 6, 1987 (accessed on September 9, 2010)
- ↑ When dying, every goal is missing 1 , Der Spiegel 46/1992, November 9, 1992 (accessed on February 12, 2012)
- ↑ When dying, every goal is missing 2 , Der Spiegel 47/1992, November 16, 1992 (accessed on February 12, 2012)
- ↑ Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann : Espionage against the Eastern Bloc 1945–1991 , in: Heiner Timmermann (Ed.): The GDR in Europe: between isolation and opening . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8884-8 , p. 172
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SURNAME | Baumann, Winfried |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zakrzowski, Winfried (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German frigate captain |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Scharley |
DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1980 |
Place of death | Leipzig |