Hans Tiedge
Hans Joachim Tiedge (* June 24, 1937 in Berlin, † April 6, 2011 near Moscow ) was a German intelligence service officer and defector. He joined in 1966 the services of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution ( BFV ) in Cologne and was, until August 18, 1985 in charge of the defense of the East German intelligence before he defected to East Germany.
Life
Tiedge was fully qualified lawyer. Driven by significant mental health problems, which were caused by alcohol abuse, high debts and the death of his wife, Tiedge fled on 19 August 1985 with the inter-zone in the GDR. At the border crossing Helmstedt -Marie Born rising to the East German border troops. Four days later, the East German news agency ADN announced the transfer Tiedge. In the subsequent interrogations Tiedge betrayed, became group leader for the counterintelligence GDR, his knowledge about his former employer, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution. However, the information provided by Tiedge only went in a few details beyond the information that the Stasi, had already by the top agents in the BFV Klaus Kurori, a direct subordinates Tiedge. Tiedge former boss Heribert Hellenbroich, just appointed President of the BND, resigned and was put into early retirement. Hellenbroich alcohol problems and debt Tiedge were known, but he Reserve left him in his office. Successor of Hellenbroich the BND was Hans -Georg Wieck.
In connection with the escape Tiedge flew in the same month to several other espionage ( " Secretaries affair "). Now the knowledge gained from Kurori could be used by the Stasi, without jeopardizing Kurori. In early August of 1985, Johanna Olbrich (aka Sonja Lüneburg), the secretary of the German Economics Minister Martin Bange man in the GDR from, as well as the secretary Margaret Hoke, who was employed in the Federal President. In the GDR fled the executive secretary of the Association of displaced Ursula Richter and her boyfriend Betzing Lorenz, who was employed by the Federal Defence Administration Office. In the GDR, the inverted Stasi agent Horst Garau and his wife Gerlinde were arrested. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, his wife, to three and a half years. Garau participated in 1988 in the Stasi prison Bautzen by hanging life, but under " never convincingly clarified circumstances." For Tiedge they invented the legend, he was already many years as " spies of the peace" worked so as not to jeopardize the top agent Joachim crasis (until 1984 when MAD) and Tiedge colleagues Klaus Kurori.
The first two and a half years in DDR spent Tiedge in Prenton, where he was housed in the HVA - line object at Bauersee. Shortly before the political change in the GDR Tiedge, who now called himself, and Helmut Fischer in Karolinenhof ( East Berlin) was living in a luxurious home in 1988 received his doctorate at the Humboldt University with a dissertation on the defense work of the secret service. After 1989 he lived initially undisturbed in his house up where it though the ARD journalist Werner Sonne tracked. Finally Tiedge was flown on 23 August 1990 in the Soviet Union by the KGB.
Tiedge, who admitted frankly, to have been a "traitor" was convinced that he had made for personal reasons with the crossing the right step; last he lived foreclosed near Moscow. Since 2005, in his case the offense of treason in Germany was outlawed and a related law enforcement in Germany no longer possible against him; However Tiedge himself had doubts whether his contact with the KGB would have been regarded by the German judiciary but when repeated criminal act, which would have the relevant limitation period begin to run again.