Hans Voelkner (* 21 August 1928 in Danzig, "† 2002 in Berlin) was a secret agent of the GDR foreign espionage.

Biografie

Voelkners parents, circus artists, were members of the communist resistance and group of espionage red chapel in France. 1942 was arrested it and condemned 1943 by a field court in Paris to death and executed by the national socialists.

Voelkner came into a National Socialist children's home. Into January 1945 it was drawn into the realm work service, where it was arrested and arrested in February after an escape attempt to the Red Army of the SS. Death march of Danzig in the punishing and institute for execution three-mountains.

After the release of the institute at the 3. He came together to May 1945 with likewise released French prisoners to Paris, where he was interned until May 1946. Starting from 1947 it lived in Leipzig where it was again arrested and on a Soviet military tribunal because of espionage and sabotage as an agent of the to 6 years penintentiary in Bautzen condemns and 1955 to dismiss became.

Starting from 1962 he worked for the GDR foreign espionage as Instrukteur and a courier of a source at NATO in Paris.

My task was it to keep contact to partners for the journeys into socialist countries a risk would have been. Information was to be taken by them in receipt to prepare to compress and to ensure their safe transport. Together with the partners the results of the work had to be analyzed and new tasks to be specified. Finally, and this was a constant component of our work, had the human contacts to be maintained. There there were personal problems, questions to the political layer or also only the need to talk again once with a friend completely openly. (Quotation Voelkner in its book" Salto mortale ")

1969 he was arrested in Paris by officials of the" Direction de la Surveillance you Territoire "(DST - management for the monitoring of the territory) and condemned by the high court of state of the Republic of France to 12 years detention.

1974 were begnadigt Voelkner by French the president and exchanged against agents of western services. After its return to east Berlin worked until 1990 in Institut for international policy and economy (IPW) in Berlin.

Literature

• Hans Voelkner: Salto mortale. From the footlights to the invisible front, military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1989
• Hans and Rosemarie Voelkner (Hrsg.): Innocently in Stalins hand. Letters - report - notes, Brandenburgi publishing house house, Berlin 1990
• (Co-author in) Klaus Eichner/Gotthold scratch (Hg.): Scout in the west. Edition east, Berlin 2003

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