Gustav (* 4. May 1882 in Perleberg, Westprignitz; "† 23 October 1954 in Heidelberg;) was a feeler gauge.

Life

parents lived in poor conditions. Like that it was for the mentally talented Gustav a social ascent, when it found an occupation after the elementary school 1896 as a writer in the district administration office Perleberg. Later it was active in same function during the urban police administration Perleberg.

In October 1903 received its summoning into "the l. WestPrussian foot artillery regiment No. 11 " after Thorn. Fast it was promoted to NCO and already used after two and a half service years as "budget-moderate writer" the Festungskommandantur Thorn. After further three years he became acquainted with those at that time shop assistant Minna summer. Already after a half year the wedding took place. They referred an official residence in the artillery barracks II in Thorn.

The Gustav carried meanwhile to the Sergeanten wanted to offer more than its moderate NCO content to its wife. Due to a published newspaper advertisement he found contact to 1908 to Colonel Nikolai Stepanowitsch Batjuschin of the Russian military intelligence service, one of the most successful agent leaders.

Colonel Batjuschin let make after collecting mains duplicate keys to the tank cabinets of superior. From the cabinets filled with secret material of all kinds supplied an enormous amount of copies and copies of confidential documents, high-secret mobilization documents as well as other explosive military regulations and plans within fewer years at Russia. Because with the copying of the documents with its typewriter did not follow, he turned into later to photograph the secret material.

After at the end of already of 1911 had taken considerable sums and over a large supply copy and/or abfotografierter secret documents ordered, whose sales by the piece guaranteed it on years ahead a secured income, it requested to 31 December 1911 its dismissal from the military service.

The married couple referred at the beginning of of 1912 a dwelling in the city bromine mountain in the province floats.

Skillfully had contacted the French intelligence service and had directly again sold the secret documents copied for Russia. When it took up at the beginning of of 1912 for the same purpose also still with the Austrian-Hungarian secret service contact, this caused its unmasking. had not considered that Austria Hungary and Germany allied were. Of of along-photographed distributor temples on a document the German counter-espionage brought on its trace. By officials of the citizens of Berlin political police was observed in February 1912 on a round trip for the transmission of intelligence in at that time still Russian Warsaw and to Paris and arrested on 23 February 1912 in Berlin. In its dwelling beside larger sums cash many securities and mortgage deed as well as zirka two shelf hundredweights military secret material were guaranteed.

Since did not show up during the later investigation cooperatively, the range of its activity could be not completely uncovered. Certain it is however that of one of the bestbezahlten feeler gauges in 20. Century was and in the years 1908 to 1912 about one half million euro after today's currency took.

Condemnation

Gustav was condemned after threefold revision against its condemnation in January 1914 in fourth and last instance from the realm military court to Degradierung, fortune introduction, one high fine and 15 years penintentiary. The German emperor Wilhelm II. confirmed the judgement, which exhausted the legally possible punishing framework in its height fully as a highest court gentleman on 7 February 1914. Gustav served its penal servitude in the penal establishments sun castle and Brandenburg. In July 1928, briefly before its regular dismissal date, became due to the so-called "cook " - amnesty for political offenders with the communist max wood and the Rathenau murderers Techow and amnesties.

The aged and become rigid intimate let itself in into unsuccessful quarrels with the Prussian Ministry of Justice, in order to operate the resumption of its process and to regain parts of its former fortune. In the 30's lost themselves the traces of the former feeler gauge, who fristete only by the assistance of its brothers and sisters its existence.

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