Wolfgang higher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Paul Höher (born February 15, 1914 in Magdeburg , † September 25, 1959 in Leipzig ) was a German double agent , member of the General SS in the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer , the Secret Field Police and the Gehlen Organization .

Life

Höher started a career in police service and joined the General SS at the age of 19. During the Second World War he belonged to the secret field police and was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer (equivalent to the rank of captain ). After the war he went to Halle (Saale) , where he was arrested in 1946 and taken to the Soviet Union . Here he was probably recruited as an agent. In 1949, Höher was released to Germany. After running a lottery office in West Berlin for a short time, Höher was signed up for the Gehlen organization (V-Nr. 2996) in the early summer of 1950. He was politically committed to the FDP .

Higher worked for a Berlin “sub-agency 2668” of the Karlsruhe general agency L (GV L) of the Gehlen organization.

On February 13, 1953, he disappeared after a meeting with a source in the West Berlin pub "Moselstuben". The Soviet MGB, forerunner of the KGB , withdrew its agent Höher by staging a kidnapping. Heinz Felfe , who was also a member of GV L at the time, investigated the case with his colleague Emil Augsburg , code name "Alberti". While Felfe supported the version of the kidnapping, Alberti considered a treason case possible.

In November 1953, Höher appeared in the East German media and revealed himself. He later wrote the agitation brochure "Agent 2996 Revealed".

In 1958 Höher was handed over to the Ministry of State Security by the KGB . He lived in Leipzig until his death in 1959.

See also

Fonts

  • Agent 2996 revealed . Kongress Verlag, Berlin 1954, DNB  574775234 (62 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ronny Heidenreich: The GDR espionage of the BND: From the beginnings to the building of the wall . 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-024-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Bodo V. Hechelhammer: Spy without borders. Heinz Felfe. Agent in seven secret services . Piper , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05793-6 , pp. 113 f .
  3. ↑ Bodo V. Hechelhammer: Spy without borders. Heinz Felfe. Agent in seven secret services . Piper , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-05793-6 , pp. 128 .
  4. ^ Helmut Roewer, Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl: Lexicon of secret services in the 20th century . with 1465 illustrations and organizational charts. Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-7766-2317-8 , pp. 207 .
personal data
SURNAME Higher, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higher, Wolfgang Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German double agent
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1959
Place of death Leipzig