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Julius Mader | |
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| Born | 7 October 1928 |
| Died | 17 May 2000 (aged 71) |
| Occupations | Writer, Journalist & Lawyer |
Political party | SED |
Julius Mader (7 October 1928 – 17 May 2000), also known as Thomas Bergner, was a German journalist, writer,[1] and political scientist who wrote extensively on espionage.
Early life
[edit]Mader came from a lower-middle-class family.[2] His family was forcibly relocated in 1945,[2] ending up in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany, a region in the process of becoming the German Democratic Republic.
Mader attended business college, followed by an apprenticeship as a draper. He studied government and law, economics and journalism at the Universities of Berlin and Jena, the Institute of Internal Trade in Leipzig, and the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Career
[edit]In 1955, he completed a Master of Business Travelers. A member of the SED, from 1958-59 he was deputy managing editor at a magazine. From 1960, he began working as a freelance writer. From 1962, he served as officer on special assignment with the code name "Faingold" for the Stasi. In 1965, he earned his doctorate from the "Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy ("Deutsche Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft "Walter Ulbricht"") at Potsdam-Babelsberg for "The secret services of the German Federal Republic and their subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic". In 1970, he received his habilitation (higher academic qualification) from the Humboldt University of Berlin, for work co-authored with Albert Charisius on the development, system and operation of the German secret service.
Mader's military and political writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War. His books have a circulation of several million[citation needed], including translations.[3] He was the author of the book Who's Who in the CIA, which has been identified as an "active measure" of disinformation.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Moran, Christopher R. (31 March 2013). Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-7756-6.
- 1 2 Helmut Müller-Enbergs; Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Mader, Julius * 7.10.1928, † 17.5.2000 Schriftsteller". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ↑ Boris Chertok, Rockets and People, Volume 3 Archived 2019-07-14 at the Wayback Machine: Hot Days of the Cold War, NASA History Series, 2009, (p.278, footnote 62)
- ↑ Rid, Thomas (2020). Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (PDF). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374287269.
- Paul Maddrell, "What we have discovered about the Cold War is what we already knew: Julius Mader and the Western secret services during the Cold War", Cold War History, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 235–258, doi:10.1080/14682740500062127
- 1928 births
- 2000 deaths
- People from Ústí nad Labem District
- East German writers
- Sudeten German people
- Stasi officers
- East German journalists
- Historians of espionage
- Naturalized citizens of Germany
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- 20th-century German historians
- 20th-century German male writers
- German male non-fiction writers