Biography of General Wolf

Markus Johannes Wolf; January 19, Hehhingen-November 9, Berlin-Foreign Intelligence Head of the GDR in-86 years, Colonel General of State Security. Marcus Wolf was born in the city of Hehingen Württemberg in the family of a Jewish doctor, writer and communist Friedrich Wolf. With the outbreak of World War II, the Wolf family was evacuated to Kazakhstan, from where Marcus Wolf was sent to the Comintern school, in which agents were being prepared to send enemy lines.

Due to a number of failures of agents, it was decided to maintain the main personnel from among young German emigrants for work in post-war Germany. Marcus Wolf entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. Marcus failed to graduate from the institute: in the year he was sent to work in Germany along with the Ulbricht group, which was supposed to prepare the coming to the power of the Communists.

Initially, his cover was the work of the Berliner Rundfunk radio station Radio Radio GDR, where, in particular, he covered the Nuremberg process. In the year, he was recalled to Germany to work at the Institute of Scientific and Economic Research. This institute was actually covering the nascent foreign intelligence of the GDR. In December, Marcus Wolf was appointed head of foreign intelligence.

At first, the number of employees and intelligence agents was small. According to Wolf himself, at the end of the year 12 introduced agents worked abroad and another 30-40 people were preparing for implementation. Of particular difficulty in intelligence was that many foreign countries refused to recognize the GDR and only illegal intelligence methods had to be used, there were no embassies in which legal agents could work.

By the year, the Foreign Intelligence of the GDR worked near the introduced agents, not counting legal agents under embassies and auxiliary agents.

In the year, Marcus Wolf resigned. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, he emigrated to the USSR, after the August Putch requested a political asylum in Austria, but in the end in September he decided to return to Germany, where he was arrested and spent 11 days in a single cell, after which he was left for a bail. In the year, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison.

In the year, the verdict was canceled by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, but in the year the court of Dusseldorf sentenced him for another three years conditionally. In the year, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany made a decision, which released officers of the GDR intelligence from persecution on charges of treason and espionage. According to Marcus Wolf himself, during interrogations he did not give out any of the Foreign Intelligence Agents of the GDR known to him.

Until his death, he was engaged in literary activity: he wrote memoirs and prose. A number of books were published in other languages ​​of the peoples of the world, including in Russia. Books of the author:.