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Karl Laurenz

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663:"Ich habe geschrieben über die Berliner Konferenz, ich habe geschrieben über die … Umstellung auf Goldbasis unserer Währung, ich habe über das 21. Plenum geschrieben, ich habe gewisse Dinge glossiert, die mir glossierenswert erschienen, z. B. wenn irgendwo in der demokratischen Presse geschrieben worden war, dass bei irgendeinem Bau, was weiß ich, die Toiletten nicht funktionierten. Es war jedenfalls ein Krampf, diese zwei Meldungen in der Woche zusammenzubekommen, denn ich durfte grundsätzlich nichts mehr berichten, was bereits in der Zeitung stand oder durch den Rundfunk gegeben war. Von Laby weiß ich, dass die Organisation in Westberlin eine eigene Funkanlage hatte, um wichtige Nachrichten per Funk sofort weiterzugeben. Und ich muss feststellen, dass in meiner ganzen zweijährigen Tätigkeit von mir aus nicht eine einzige Meldung per Funk weitergegeben worden ist." 226:. Defined according to its 1918 city limits, the city was predominantly German speaking, but several neighbouring municipalities had subsequently been concatenated into a new enlarged city area, as a result of which German speakers in Brno, such as the Laurenz family, were now a minority, albeit a very substantial minority. In 1924 Laurenz took a job as a contributing editor with the publishers of "Tageboten", while also moonlighting as a translator (from Czech to German), and sometimes obtaining work as a simultaneous court translator. He also worked as a correspondent for the 654:"I wrote about the Berlin Conference, I wrote about the ... currency reforms , I wrote about the 21st Plenum , I glossed over things that I thought could or should be glossed over, for instance where something had already been written up in the western press, where in some public building or other that I knew, the toilets were out of order. .... It was in any case annoying to get hold of these two reports in a week, whereby there was no longer a need to report on something that was already in the newspaper or on the radio. I knew from 717:. Possibly of more interest to western intelligence would have been information on economic and industrial matters, such as supply shortages of certain raw materials, or challenges involved in feeding the population, but here again, the espionage alleged seems to have been strangely trivial. The court gave close attention to a problem in which Grotewohl's office became involved that had arisen in Dresden in December 1953, when bakers had been unable to produce traditional 533:. When the letter was inspected the next day, after it had passed through the hands of Barczatis, the hair had disappeared, which caused the investigators to suspect that someone had handled the letter far more thoroughly than would have been necessary merely to file it away: the inference was that someone - Barczatis - had removed the letter without authorisation and taken it home, filing it back in the correct safe the next day. 285:) and then, despite his physical unsuitability, conscripted into the military in 1941. Laurenz himself later placed his political position during the 1930s firmly in the context of his work as a translator in the courts, which gave him deep insights into the political situation. With positive beliefs forfeited, he identified himself as a "pacificst multiculturalist" ( 724:
Judge Helene Kleine, one of the panel of judges who had condemned Barczatis to death, was still alive in 1995, and was charged with manslaughter, false imprisonment and legal violations. The court determined that Kleine and her fellow judges had knowingly imposed disproportionately heavy penalties,
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Since the trial records have become available, it has become evident that many of the facts which the court concluded Barczatis had passed to Laurenz for onward transmission to his western handlers involved agenda items that could be found in the newspapers in both East and West Germany, concerning
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At around 3 in the morning on 23 November 1955 Laurenz was taken from his cell to the execution room at the National Execution Facility in Dresden and guillotined. Elli Barczatis was guillotined approximately ten minutes later. Other sources indicate that Barczatis was the first to be guillotined.
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reports use a cover name for Laurenz, identifying him as "Knesel". The reports on their movements were sometimes formidably detailed and precise in terms of times and places, and a certain amount of suspicious activity was reported as early as 1951, but until late in 1954 the investigators came up
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In January 1951 Laurenz obtained work with a Berlin lawyer called Dr. Greffin which, as matters turned out, landed him in more trouble. Sources indicate that he was placed under surveillance from June 1951. In October 1951 he was accused of "favouring prisoners" because of legal advice that he was
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himself. According to Laurenz's later testimony, Laby introduced Schubert as the head of "some West German intelligence service", and explained that they wished to recruit Laurenz. In return for a monthly payment of 400 Marks Laurenz would report on economic matters, politics and culture in East
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back in 1945 were beginning to be matched by physical impediments to free movement between East and West Berlin: on his release Laurenz established that Dr.Greffin had moved to West Berlin. Laurenz sought out Greffin and resumed working for him, albeit on a casual basis and without any fixed
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The name of Clemens Laby (22 November 1900 - ?) had still not been found in searches of the East German intelligence archives at the end of 2011. His name nevertheless cropped up in several East German criminal trials during the 1950s, where he is identified as a contact man for
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were recruited to report on Barczatis and her social circle, following her not merely in East Berlin but also West Berlin where she sometimes accompanied Laurenz for his meetings with his old drinking buddy, Laby. In-coming and out-going mail was scrutinised. From 27 March 1953 the
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The Stasi records on Laurenz include a report dated 8 December 1952 entitled "Alles über die Person" ("Personal details"): " remains in contact with his brother. He lives in Kirlach (sic) and often sends parcels containing medicines, cigars etc. to him and his
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that the organisation in West Berlin already had a radio facility able to pass on without delay important news items broadcast on the radio. And I must emphasize that throughout my two years of activity, not one of my own reports was passed on by the
1183:"Agentin "Gänseblümchen" starb durch das Fallbeil: Sie arbeitete für DDR-Ministerpräsident Otto Grotewohl und spionierte für den BND. Ende 1955 wurde Elli Barczatis in Dresden hingerichtet. Jetzt arbeitet der RBB mit Ulrike Folkerts den Fall auf" 324:), where he was captured and was held for a few weeks as a US prisoner of war. Immediately after that he took a job in the coal industry, initially in Profen, and ending up, by the end of 1947, at the national head office of the Coal Department ( 598:. The trial, thought to have taken place in Berlin, was held on 23 September 1955. It is believed to have lasted approximately 13 hours and was recorded. A version of the recording, reduced to approximately 320 minutes, was found among the 1503: 678:
The East German media were not able to report specifically on the trial which was held behind closed doors "in camera". But they did report in more general terms a massive unmasking and the successful arrest of more than 1,000
355:. In economic and political terms the new country was closely modeled on the institutions of the Soviet Union itself. Internationally it was a member of the Soviet military bloc. Early in 1948 Laurenz became a member of the 586:. The long hours of nocturnal interrogation broke him down. A routine was evolved whereby he underwent twelve hour interrogation sessions through the night, and was then sleep deprived during the hours of daylight. 546:
His arrest was originally scheduled for 8 December 1954, but was deferred. Reasons for the deferral unclear. In the end Laurenz was arrested at around 11.30 on 4 March 1955, close to his home at Vinetastraße 49 in
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investigators now set a series of further traps. Under judicial pressure at her subsequent trial, Barczatis confirmed that she had taken papers home in order to show them to Laurenz, but this was never proven.
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Following his conscription Laurenz had the good fortune not to be sent to the front line for several years, instead being assigned to work on the training of new recruits. Towards the end of the
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Contrasting assessments exist concerning the importance of Laurenz and Barczatis to western intelligence. Those who identify them as important sources take their lead from the former
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is used. Over the years Laurenz was paid several thousand Marks, while Elli Barczatis received from her lover a string of gifts large and small, ranging from chocolates to a
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BStU, ZA, MfS AU 406/55, Bl. 92: Eröffnungsbeschluß „Termin zur Hauptverhandlung ist auf den 23. September 1955, vorm. 9.00 Uhr anberaumt worden. Bl. , d. 16.9.1955“.
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The original recommendation had been for life sentences, but the court condemned both defendants to death for "Boycott Agitation" under article §6 of the
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who joined the Nazi party, and according to his own later testimony was reprimanded by the security services for his "lack of political sensitivity" (
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Frustrated, Laurenz became increasingly ambivalent in his attitude to the Eastern version of Germany, quietly becoming more positive about the
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because the authorities, ignorant of the special characteristics of Christmas bread in Dresden, had failed to provide sufficient raisins.
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On 17 June 1955 the investigation was finally completed, with a recommendation to the court that the ensuing trial should be conducted
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with little usable evidence. In the end the authorities set a trap. In November 1954 a hair was carefully attached to on a letter from
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Karl Laurenz consistently downplayed the significance and the level of detail in the information that he has passed to the west.
296:. He married on 28 February 1929, which resulted in the birth, in around 1930, of two daughters who ended up, after the war, in 1468: 618: 1026: 328:) in Berlin. Since the war had ended, formally in May 1945, the entire central portion of what had been Germany had been 625: 693:, who published his memoirs in 1971, describing Barczatis as "the first important link in the other part of Germany" ( 479:, but without knowing precisely which secret service he was working for. Elli Barczatis, as the trusted secretary of 246: 1458: 440: 393: 348: 210:. His studies included a dissertation which he wrote with the title "De poena capitali mutandis in temporibus" ( 443:. During this time the political and economic divisions that had been implicit in the division of Berlin into 381:
who after 1949 was employed as a secretary to the head of the "Coal Department", a political appointee called
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providing. This led to a five month prison term followed by an instruction never again to set foot in the
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employment contract. It appears that after this point Laurenz no longer had any full-time employment.
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Staadt, Jochen: Gänseblümchens Tod, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine 11 April 2001, Berliner Section, p. 3.
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supporters on a barracks in Brno, but otherwise he was for the most part apolitical. Even after the
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Elli Barczatis was six years younger than Laurenz, and was building a successful career inside the
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journalist and specialist translator. He was executed as a western spy on the guillotine in
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Laurenz was posthumously rehabilitated by the Berlin district court on 28 November 2006.
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MfS-Akten enthüllen die Hintergründe einer der größten innerdeutschen Spionage-Affären
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SWR 2 Archivradio: Der DDR-Strafprozess gegen Elli Barczatis und Karl Laurenz 1955
1060: 301: 1350:"Vernehmung Elli Barczatis ... Angst und Vertrauen & Rosinen für den Stollen" 1156: 749: 702: 366:, by now well on its way to becoming the ruling party in a new kind of German 270: 266: 231: 412:, Laurenz looked for work in journalism. In February 1950 he took a job with 595: 373:. In the course of his work in the National Coal Administration Department ( 337: 305: 559:. The next six months were spent held under investigatory detention at the 1339:
Reinhard Gehlen: Der Dienst. Erinnerungen 1942-1971, München 1971, p. 201.
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Spionage im Vorzimmer der Macht - der Fall Elli Barczatis und Karl Laurenz
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as a legal advisor to the central Germany Trading Centre for solid fuels (
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Karl Laurenz (as quoted in the trial transcript which turned up after
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Landgericht Berlin, Geschäftsnummer (551 Rh), 3 Js 322/06 (331/06).
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German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States
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and she was sentenced to a five-year jail term. The sentence was
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with those that he had evidently experienced at the hands of the
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Review of Maximilian Schönherr: "Fallbeil für Gänseblümchen"
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The authorities were already investigating Laurenz in 1951.
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German resistance fighter, journalist and jurist (1905–1955)
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publishing house, but was sacked from this in August 1950.
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Der DDR-Strafprozess gegen Elli Barczatis und Karl Laurenz
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to preserve liberal political traditions on behalf of the
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the operation is identified with the cover name "Daisy" (
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By 1952, at the latest, Laurenz was working as a spy for
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After the Second World War in the Soviet occupation zone
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Germany. Military matters would be expressly excluded.
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rejected an appeal for clemency on 11 November 1955.
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Approximately ten minutes later, Laurenz's lover, 713:matters such as the scheduling of formal visits by 132: 111: 97: 87: 77: 50: 28: 21: 283:wegen "fehlendem politischem Fingerspitzengefühl" 1208:Silvia Oberhack; Katri Jurichs; Elke Steinbach. 1142: 1140: 602:following the demise of the East German regime. 1317:Henrike Girmond (Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum ). 1176: 1174: 1065:Anonymised report apparently from Johanna Lexow 1054: 1052: 647: 1147:Hermann Zolling; Heinz Höhne (19 April 1971). 222:had ceased to exist, and Brno had ended up in 1494:People executed by East Germany by guillotine 1376:"Weiterer Fall im Prozeß gegen DDR-Richterin" 1087: 1085: 971:Karl Wilhelm Fricke; Roger Engelmann (1998). 8: 699:"hingebungsvolle und erfolgreiche Tätigkeit" 362:"Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" 1403:"Sechs Menschen starben unter dem Fallbeil" 1238:"Vernehmung der Angeklagten Elli Barczatis" 1020: 1018: 1016: 1014: 911: 909: 300:and subsequently with Laurenz's brother at 178:Karl Anton Laurenz was born and grew up in 1232: 1230: 18: 1181:Sven Felix Kellerhoff (13 October 2015). 804:. TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH, Berlin 613:presided over the Nbr. 1 Criminal bench ( 1474:Socialist Unity Party of Germany members 408:coal and lignite). Not wishing to leave 251:"Deutsche Demokratische Freiheitspartei" 1484:Federal Intelligence Service informants 737: 245:Until 1939 Laurenz was a member of the 212:"On the Death Penalty through the ages" 1464:People from the Margraviate of Moravia 1000: 990: 977:. Ch. Links Verlag. pp. 339–343. 868: 858: 839:; Roger Engelmann (8 September 2010). 453:German Federal Republic (West Germany) 1449:German Army personnel of World War II 1025:Jan von Flocken (30 September 1996). 427:for "conduct damaging to the party" ( 7: 1272:Ralf Bei der Kellen (7 March 2014). 707:the West German intelligence service 342:designated, by the allied commanders 1401:Sigrid Averesch (17 January 1995). 1130:HA IX/Tb/2166-2188, MfS AOP 77/53, 491:). In the files of the East German 1356:. Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart. 1955 1244:. Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart. 1955 1099:. Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart. 1955 14: 1274:"Die Partei, die macht das Recht" 287:als "pazifistischen Kosmopoliten" 1059:Johanna Lexow (9 January 1951). 800:Philipp Gessler (29 June 2002). 529:to the Soviet Foreign Minister, 465:West German Intelligence Service 885:Stasi records under reference: 845:. Links, Ch. pp. 181–194. 429:"parteischädigenden Verhaltens" 247:German Democratic Liberal Party 105:court translator (simultaneous) 1479:BND agents convicted of crimes 916:Roger Cousin (18 April 2013). 643:Further context and evaluation 561:Berlin-Hohenschönhausen prison 206:at the city's recently opened 1: 493:Ministry for State Security ( 423:In 1950 he was expelled from 349:German Democratic Republic ( 269:, he condemned an attack by 1520: 974:Dokumente ... Karl Laurenz 636:The bodies were cremated. 441:German Democratic Republic 394:German Democratic Republic 277:Laurenz was not among the 1489:Masaryk University alumni 1382:, Berlin. 24 January 1995 445:military occupation zones 375:"Zentralverwaltung Kohle" 326:"Zentralverwaltung Kohle" 238:-based "Morgen-Zeitung" ( 180:Brünn (since 1919 "Brno") 1280:. Deutschlandradio, Köln 1027:"Heimlich aufs Schafott" 752:(online). 11 August 1997 746:"Der Makler der Agenten" 715:Prime Minister Grotewohl 709:during the early 1950s. 485:West German intelligence 463:, the forerunner of the 392:and, after 1949, in the 259:German speaking minority 918:"Barczatis Elli Helene" 511:Leisurely investigation 360:Socialist Unity Party ( 275:German invasion of 1938 82:Execution by guillotine 65:Münchner Platz Prison, 1469:Moravian-German people 691:chief, Reinhard Gehlen 675: 580:Nazi security services 542:Arrest and questioning 340:that had already been 334:Soviet occupation zone 192:school leaving exams ( 165:, was also executed. 1120:western intelligence 1069:Maximilian Schönherr 688:western intelligence 604:Judge Walter Ziegler 455:. 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Index

Brünn (Brno)
Austro-Hungary
Dresden
East Germany
Execution by guillotine
Masaryk University
Czechoslovakia
SED
East Germany
German
Dresden
Saxony
Germany
Elli Barczatis
Brünn (since 1919 "Brno")
Austro-Hungarian
Moravia
school leaving exams ("Abitur")
Brünn
Jurisprudence
Masaryk University
Versailles
Austro-Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Ostrava
German Democratic Liberal Party
Czechoslovakia
German speaking minority

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