Julius Mader
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Julius Mader | |
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| Born | 7 October 1928 |
| Died | 17 May 2000 (aged 71) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Journalist & Lawyer |
| Political party | SED |
Julius Mader (7 October 1928 – 17 May 2000), also known by his alias Thomas Bergner, was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.
Life[edit]
Mader came from a lower-middle-class family.[1] Along with millions of other ethnic Germans, his family was forcibly relocated in 1945,[1] ending up in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany, a region which was in the process of becoming the German Democratic Republic.
Mader attended business college, followed by an apprenticeship as a draper. Then he began to study in the fields of 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.
In 1955, he completed a Master of Business Travelers. A member of the SED, from 1958 to 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 received his doctorate from the "Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy ("Deutsche Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft "Walter Ulbricht"") at Potsdam-Babelsberg for a dissertation on "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 a piece of 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 of some books into other languages.[2] He was the author of the book Who's Who in the CIA.
References[edit]
- ^ Jump up to: a b 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: Hot Days of the Cold War, NASA History Series, 2009, (p.278, footnote 62)
- 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
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- 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