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poeseected.",. in the -nitiber of coUritrieia, to .which Os . agent-networks..exten.,.
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0t115r -praatiatil effect' on Nast BreMen of the Abwehr i s rtzscone' stittitiOn into .
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vi:p le s , and although before the Outbreak of war thellest 1.-0.13 expanded t3'.inolude 111 and IL seotions (Which later dis.aPpeared) and. intereeted itaggE:
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in', economic intelligence , - whenever propitious, tap main oor.ipern , of . ..the

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,.. Prieohmuth, p.rid sometime loosely named Stella Brims.. the la:tteri was 'an
. 6 44161:7 s oFiParate .organisation, , bearing no ,relation .t0 Nest .Bremen ,and res- .
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In 1. 934. tri6h i
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as working in WiihelMs
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o-qieier" for e, a , on in: its infamy., 'Ho . -wiLEt' mictri4ed ith' the
ta.e.k of ' f' orming.Whekt 'cannot be rated. -higher-than . an n infogaatiOn -:eyetelas
to ,bring dividends from all parts ; : of . the..world.in:the shape Of repOrts'15n
foreigr,i shipping and Naval matters.. To this end. taiPPER had' estlabliihed
ill following sources of information:-
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1) Contacts. in Belgium and Holland., who had. undertaken. tck`sup,p3,y'vicitten
reports on. inloli information' as could be..gleaneeiri ;the ports . . of Antwerp;
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Rotterdnm and The 'Hague. '' .


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2) Sultike informants recruited. from the .anati
liars registered at the Bremen Aussenhandelsstellep who 'supplied' 4aterii re
figp-tding .2 forlitii 4arsiieles s and 'naval and. shipping. ,bonstrUotkm, . co. eoted
-: th4 normal bourse. Of their travels,, :

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1). Ierohant NaVy' .Ottytains and :officers .ihoSe:.shiPe:were.,basiiicl.:-oii,.the

.: poTt. of Wilhelmshaven;

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shipping publicatiOne and technidal: * journals of all :types 'ihild . i*New . . .
York, - and also reported t6 ifiE.13-M, the .,res3.11ts of ih4.1ii: ovyn'obserVatiOne .
of shipping. sta.
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nayp.1, developments in the U.S, ..1. and to ze.nd,repOrts

PREIFFER by the
cou,riers Mentioned above..
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It should. be understood. that

this stage .PBElre.hat had not asked for
anr.acttie-1 espionage to be :undertaken on his behalf; Infos:mantis were Urged.
not to drew attention to themselves by unlawful Or dangerous' "stiCOPing".
Nevertheless, 'from these. souroes And from other individual informants. too
nurlperous to mention here, PFEIFFER .had. begun to build. up a great deal Of
valiaable material for the use of the NaVal and Military allthorities; :and
was-,. laying thefouzadations
of an

. exteneiVe
. intelligence organisation which
to prove. extrenely valuableIn later years.,
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It i anusirig to .learn that * PFEIFFER was..an. admirer'of,
the .Austrian "Master-Spy" of 'the' 1914F-1918' war ) . 'whase methods influenced
his's -oval approach to intelligence Work:
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By the b,eginning, of .1935,VHE

round..' the ..:olcified ,a.rea'or
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haven, and. the limited. aCoPe Offered to hit there, * irksone.4:14obatr4ctive,,
and :began to wOrli =Ore ana Libre : in the Bremen area, ' whieh as a Woild-wide
ehip?ing base,offered =Ore oPportunities, ConseqUelitly,. af. ter mr.licitig re- pre a entations to CAN/IRIS, baring . the.. latter ra visit , to Vilhalthehaie4 . in
April 1935, PFEIFFER was -authorized. to transfer his office to 'Bremen: and.
virla promised:full. ' facilities for condtiCting and. :expanding his 'Work ,there.
After he had submitted a scheme for the Bremen Stelle
Abweihr heixdquarters,
, it *as officially, agreed that PBEIZFER ahead concentrate ;on the obtaining
of tharine inel1igonoe, and should seek i,nfO/*,.tion. on worldwide, as well
as *orth -Sea, traffic.
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tee:br?maen
-Cotober 1935, Its staff of fr oQ
as
ised PFEIFFER
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asststed by the , shipping eipert S&VIIIE
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one 'Secreta* ' and one chauffeur.
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Th4: Nest. was conducted . on the sane lines 'ae ..thoee pre'01.Ously- , pursued by
::PFE#FFER., and. exijOyed. Coragete freed of .tictibt:" ltiortEIN broVed: 'An
ormants
asset to PHEMEEz,
'proCeeding With the, reeruitment of.
up
frog among merchant marine offioers babed. on Brenen, thereby fbnil
a vital ,source of infon.lation from all quarters of the globe.

At this -.time and subsequently, both before ancl . ,..after the -outbreak of
var. PEETITER ,exploited personal c9litTIPt iiII:therdirectorate of the NorddeUtscher: Lloyd. Shippina CoMpany fOr the guivzio86 of reeruiting agents and
. couriers fren among crews on the , coMPany't s ..yeasels, and the' co4aily ;collabCrated. with Neat .BreTaen'to the eXtent of Presenting likely reCruits for
emp1oyment as agents Or officials of the :Nest..

of obtaining reIn 1936,. HEINER commenced ' to'exPiOre the pOesibility

intelligence regarding France !s navy, and .clefence
Systems.
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Profitable sources of such ;aaterial Were delitacts'0 4. de in Rhine and
constru.ction firms undertaking Contra.ets in France.. -A.' sedcind ;valuable
S01.41(18 was p.;

Naval officer, Marp .111,IBERT, Who.volutlteored. his services

wench

43. Cea,man,agent , and.:ProVided...extroMely

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.From travellers tO . Eivland Cana : repcirts
British Navn - "while from-his merchant marine informarits FBEIFFER received
the British coloxctallent materiakdealing with stipping and defences
nil, Japan and Russia.

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is of interest to learn from MEV= that .he welconed.reports on
-Russia Obtained -,therOugh that aountrzr a :placing Of contracts with Gel;man
firms in the Ruhr. It was not .until 1937 or 1930 that it Wei3 aisc,taed. that
intelligence frora Rtissia...did not fall within the e.egie, of 'Nest Bretz*.
In the autumn. of 1937 pREIPPERwas instructed to expand, his work, of
esponage against . the .Unite a, lailadcri, frath'Whibh .00tintry any type. of. Intel
lig note was to be sought, ana to facilitate, the implementation of these

inirbrubtions the teUe wcz. ooiderab1y expculde4y:new offibers 2'being apPOp--.

'tea to ir.tiate H aria I 1.4.e. t soot
1.9yti3,
Leiter k Kitt.

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., One of themost iMpOrtant 'undert'ak s of AUGENBR, the newly'e.
was the redi4uitment, training and . control'Of.an agent
Holland, Albert /ZEUS, who until the outbreak of war was productive of 'mater, India' and Malaya.P ' all of which countries
.K ',7estern EUrope,
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. 'BEkIDI..)N . 00ntrolled O. number' *of agents in the Nest EaSt, , who pi-ovided.
hiPping intepigence from the Bosphorus and.. Dardanelles area, and later

fi-On Syriallpoivbs.

PIttIFFEE: meanwhile continued, to -expand%hia ind.sting soptroaa,. and was,

highly satisfied with results, Ixatil early in 1938, when to hi a surprise
and. dismay a major catastrophe befell his agents in the U.S.A. 0 the: Maj.by the .p .pjt, ;Thia 'disaster was followed
ori:ty of these being ap-..?rehended
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very shortly afterwards by-the arrest in Frarice of ilare "..i.a1BERT, who had
been providing : useful infethation regarding French coastal defences and
naaI cOnstrtkition.
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The 'denotiedent in .AmeriCa caused 'criticism of PREIFIER,. not only within

the Al.paehr but als o by NoiddimitsCher
officials, .since- the , arrests.,
ch inCluded that ot,::41... hairdpeSSei:, Johanno. i. :161tWANI1, of the S.S. Europa,

brciUght'''dierepute to the Shipping

=FM managed. to

ei6une
*CAMP.18 who indee.d.showed Orusaderabla restraixn . and.
ixad.ers:tanding; by explaining that te reurii9 1
of hia group . of 'agents
had. been 'due t6 the, careless and .confused behaviour of one;of the cOuriers,
Karl Sag[IETtR,. who, .'eritii;ely, without PEE 'ar knowledge ,. had- beeia
. aiMultwieOUS4 by 1,st-ifainbtirg l , and had also 1)6060 involved in Nazi Pork?:
organisations in.:_the,Unitea-Otatfils.

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this explanation, Which 'was. in, faci legitimate , and
bnd the sane egree
gre e of
tOpar-z. 0.orit4iitod.. to enjoy .both

independence as hitherto.:

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. 'During' the . 's aim. Year, 138,...113EIFFER: ' had enliat6d.theserricies' of two
:nen Who were to ..reibain with . Nest Bremen' throughout the war..,. 'and who maintairi4 And developed the Nest/ a ../'53t30,1.1iVes with considerable energy itnd..errter' pri;se;: 'name 1J6harines' BISCHOFF and .Nikolaus: BESSMANNs. The.' tormez,
pottOn merchant; ..had. bUsiness connections in England,. and. during the fre,-;
vieits: Which. he : nad.e. to the 1.4.1C. u to. ' the outbreak . of war he', pro.r
Otioeci information on industrial 'and airertift * : doVe1OpMen.ta in that cOusitry.
BENSMANN, an oipert . .in;.the 0.3.7.in4u.stry;-vith inntinerable .contacts
, Europe arid. Auer-Ica,- 179.13 able to recruit agents . who applied .nteUienoe
MK-WIPT
. rOgo.*Iii* oil storage and refinIsig plants
was alsS. :responsible for creating,.0. secret
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iry in Bremen
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ootiAt 'tie
the tine of the CzeOhi;SiO4ek..orisis in 1938, Nest Bremen.,
non with all Abtehretellearesporisible for offensive 'espiOne.ge in the -Westo,
was InetrUcted!to ' 'report on Preparations for war on the part' of Grekk
Britain and. 'Frazee.

During 1938, . the 'Neat was 'aged as a training:School ". for tit Officiald.
from:other Stollen, evidersOe of the high rgb.rci : WhiCh wait heict 'at Abteilung

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headquarters for PHEIFFERIs efficienrAnd -achieiraments

PHEIFFER himself was atriotialy 'engaged in Construcing : a new .network

o agents to operate agairlSf the U.S.A.ObtAkbed that, but for the ut.i1
his knoWiedge of : ciObtain, of his agents by ''Ast Hamburg,
a previous methods , WOUlt-hati: O.britlitieE2tb. :bring successful results, he
proceeded. alarig :' similar line s first recruiting two stewards on a New YorkGyrraEuk shipping route:, :end: .sedandly gladly: accepting an offer of ;services
received 'shortly afterwards frOM'Zition . KCEDBL, o. German in iNew York, whom
ha : inetruCted .:to -report on military matters ,and Qfl hipping. in NeW York

harbour.

In January 1939; PHEIPFER attended a special course for Abteilung I

offiderS in Berlin; which was 'directed .by VASS:ER, GrUppen.leiter ,I.Luft,
and wiiich''oarisiisted of detailed instruction in airaiiifi reocign.i#Oli and.
technical aviation matters,
xing the s UOOP ding. nine months, Nest Bremen received an increasing
n*ber of enquiries from headqUa.rtert . -regarding ports and. shipping in the
Levant, but was unable to achieve satisfactory results in this direction.
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. pHEIFFER, who had. for some years been bonv-in
. ced of , the. ineVitability
of war, and who now, realised its imminenoe, Painstakingly brought:his dos.,.
. siers up-to-date: froth official and. unoffioial naval publications obtained
f.4'03:1.. his . own sources ; considering' that statis ticis and .charts . issUed ,by Abt .
IM Were inacdurate , . Re . thus ' ims able) to construot : ic plan :of aompe.ign in
.respect of naval intelligence ., rendered himself independent 'of ., or unliMitad. by:0 ,, directive .s issued by the Kriegamarine, and. was. ready to meet the
altered, deManda WhiCh: he anticipated Wh,en warl was declare

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ImMadiatelY after -the outbreak of war Nest Bremen was given...the pri-

ority assignment of obtaining detailed inteUigenoe egErdin'forii

slipping in Northern European waters, : To PHEIFFER'a .disappointm nt, he
fOund that the majority Of his contacts lapsed into silence end he re-

Ceivec;1 very little intefligenoe from pro-existingagents.. It th4refore

became a vital and urgent necessity to activate new sources.. To this end
Nest Bremen officials toured. the LOw:CoUntries and rjemark, recruiting
agents mainly from amongst ,BENSMANNtS business .contaats; among these were
agents Who provided .information regarding :the R.4:1'. . :and the aircraft
foibwing the traditicin es?industry in Britain,: Meanwhile,
tabIished by 111-3EIpER, opened a neW 'channel of coraMmication with agents
intie . 1te3.ted: States; " The agent : GRINIM"Was.. establiShed in Miliaxollith the
rs task of recrUiting and contra/ling *Membere of creWs :of U.S. ships . calling
at Italian ports. cianez was asaisted in this work by Karl EITEL' who
*ore the arrest's early in 1938 had been. a 'ste*ard, on the . .3.5. Bremen,
uliiised'as an agent Courier by PHEIWER.' These sub-iagenta, Licted as;
substitutes for the couriers on the Brermen-New York liners used before the
war to bring material from the U.S.A.4 they were also utilised ad, oouriers
for 4=4404:f5 :U.S. A ... contacts the exphitation of whom, _enabled : Nest Bremen
tO keep au fakt with the latest iiMerican technical developments.. By the
P#d of 1939 PBB Dr Vas receiving from this 'oharuiel, excellent reports on
. shipping and. Army training
methods from a prewar agent in ,New.-yorli.'
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and
. FUrther contacts: of BENS= proved useful agents 'iii
Iles
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through yet :anOther. friend 1:of..BEN344,41.4. : with 'good :pannetions network of informants was created in" South ,' AMerica.
.:j
t=gfsFria; an agent of BISCHOFF dispatohed to Colorabi. via
Italy i 19
was instrUcted to Set ?.zp a 17/T, station there; -and,: by buildiefg up a sub-agent network in` Solikth, 44erica; another source of inpormation
on developments in the U.8.4, was established,
Onino...are.evidenced b5S. the.
14tivitieS on behalf 'of'llest . BreMen'
presence in 1940 :of at least' one . tigazit, 111211LICRE, in Shanghai; with whom
the WT station in Colombia made, contact, whi3.e' an agent . dispatched to the
Bremen via cover
U. S.A. in the spring . Of that, year dispatched' 'reports
addresee$ in Shanghai; Switzerland b.nd. ilazi, anal' 'probably communicated
alea. by .17/T *via the Colombia !nation:

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A further impOrtant devolpppent in ttte ear2.y part of 1940 Iiina the

establishraent of agents in Prance.
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The spxing 'Cif.'4.94t0240 avr.in:,,Ott t'aitt, to. expand the Nest's resources in
the Western Hez4spbere .. :by.. te gs-Patc:i17.. ,0. .. 0. ggerit 'paimed .yuT,.24.91 # ; Panadhq
hciwever, ..althoUgh . the ,perti...41r,reabheti bglada, via he thS..4.,::iind
nci
authorities,
suceess&lly evade a . ..detection by the 1743:*.and.':Canadian
retorts were 'ever , received from. h$. '
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. At this t ime. BISCII0PF.tunde'reb:. the ask of ' contacting, , thrbUgh the .
Bremen Chamber.,of:Commercie;: persbns entering andlearink the 'country.
These travellers were dirsoreetIY 'interv.'ieWScr prior to : their departure 'and
. atter'their . return, .and while spectacular re,sults were . neither achieved.
nor expected, a. certain 'amoUnt of useful 'infemation, was , thus obtained.
This interrogation' was carried.: 021 .'unddr .. the ciOver!-tit.le of the "Seevei
:- kehra-Nairigati.onsbuere,'.and. the work was . known as the Wirtsoha.ftsbefo,
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-A .Sehiff.sbefragtxagsdienat was forme'd: by Other Neat. Bremer 'personnel,
Whepritiedand, . interrogated. ships' captains and crews.
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These': two methods of seeking intelligenCe Were 'abandoned in 1942;

however, throughout the War he Net cOntinued to iriterrogate,GerMen
nat-ionais: returning froii abroad, Icith to obtain intelligence .and, with a
. itiew to selecting possible agent
This Work was.' desbribed latterly
. as PRUCkwandererbefragungadienstl;
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In Nay 1940 Paint: .left Nest Bremen,. taking' oheoge: of an Einsats.kccitindo which . accamPanied the .G.627341 :44,',
advance through . the Lbw
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Conntries and. France, and he was replaced, as Leiter by E.Lt. ,,CAn, who
frOra the outbreak of war until this, date had. been Leiter of.'Ip'(Prease)
'NeStilirreittin.'"aftsection. formed to deal with the extraction of "inte.11igence
= isroW.fOrtisign:,publibations.. received in theMist freizi''611 SOUrfaces. CARL
hadcbeen,:. astisted, in, this,yori by
slirozzOftgit, 4r.tia . by BIX116114. -the
latter specialised. 'in , material from the M.'S. ,. Eire and: thei S.14: end. also
t: dn, the . etxllection of ., econoMio., material' on. South ..tamericm.,...which:liNst, task
he.kperred on behA l f pf Abteilung:I
de*dini..the resiultd ...of his
aOotirs. to :Berlin . headquarters. Mast' Of the material derived from South
rioa
receiVecl; by BISCHOIFF froz4,(tie in 'Milan,7 who s* ubs Cribed td all
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important South *American publioations.
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Fron.;, the ,t
)44;6.: the . Nest the piimmnt .:figUres were not,
: raight be eXpepted, the Sub:,..eicitit4nti'Leiters, , , but BISCHOFF and SEtsmiNN.
Little is kriown. of 4:1,2LI Per4onaI a.biity as Leiter but =kit' hag emerged.
regarding the actilities of theifeirro subordinateS Aiii .. dontinued..in. the
' traditions . of -their . rebruiter and first Leiter, PlIBIFFER. :

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In the 'summer of ,1940 n attemPt Was made to;dispatch . liabert ./ME14 to

after :careful -rr..1.14rig had. been given in secret writing :.ancl:raiora.-

phcitography. This. agent- failed to 'LI:ob./it:a beyorid . Beigrade and. eventmliy

reiurned to the Nest'
re-employment .elsewhere. No evidence has been
received of any agents suceessfullY .operating "frori Troi.k ;aiming the war.
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on. Charnel shipping.
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.ttsie above by the..of 194.0". Neet . BreMery was reoe lying
reports on Allied and..
p ne4tral ship ing from
the.'fOilowing
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1) Officers of deir4an cargo vesselebased on Bremen, Bremerhaven and

Rmien;
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.2 German raerdhaiit hairy 7Veitthe
:.'Ini Baltic ports;
3 Agents in Swedish ports;
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.4- An agent in IstanbUIT:'..:\''' ''''": ..
.
in the Mediterranean .
lying
5 German merchent...shippingstill
..p
(reports . from ..fiese . beingemostly a:mat:tea to . Bratien. via Istanbul).
.. .
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., As a prtiil...larf experinent-,..-in -the auti .2.r.n.of. .1940:BISCEIOPF . had Ben.*
,.._,;..two .agents .to::?ortp,go.4.. tic . Set tzp ...# Lisbon. s a branch cif..a Bremen firm with
for.

"

'

which one of;

was:them
connected. When the branch I. been: p'stabitahal.d.
in Lisbon, one agent, John OSitRas. returned, Johazin kA3OIER : iepain4iganfi for silc months eending.e0nomio end naVal! .intel4gese in secret
wrf,ting
` tr.0,11SCHOFF, By the. .sj?rip.g. : Of 199. it liad!bpen decided that
more eriout attention should be giVeito "tkiet explaitation of the Iberian
Pen.inSUla as a base for the obtaining of haval, end Shilipi2.1,g intelligence,
and. therefore GR22114, in whom BISCHOFF placed great'cOnfidOxidel l was re;*
led fro=
iind after instruction =Id prepathtion in Bremen Was
sent to Lisbcnito COnstrucit a large-scale :agent network in the Peninsula,
and to establish a , 17/T station for the rapid :transmission oT. infei ,Tigence
to-.13reMenthro
the. Hamburg TTA ,Stelle..'!
. :
. .
In June 1914 'CALL attempted. to .4P1ement the ex.istiiig ' s.Ourege of.
intel14:enbe in Frenbe, ;. in particIti rvi' by the establish:lent of agent on the
Ritiera coast. Negotiations with st Paris, however, ; fell through and
after the :frustration of suocessiVe atterapts 94RL Ceased to pursue this aim.
No =ajar deVelOpraents followed during the vrinter-r-of 194-1/42. It is
of :interest, however, to note that, aways . . in aearch , Of fresh' fields,
Nest )3rezaen .disPatchd . twC agents tb,..4frica. T he first was sent to
PogUese 77est Afrida there- it vas: intended -that he'ShoUld 'establish
hitie 114.ith- ,17/T transmit
1e Was also iniltioctild t reditit a
sUbitgent to operate in south 21f.rib.,. and 'both were to collect shipping
an economic intelligence, for transmission to'. HaMburg::' Abt eiltin& 321.
Austle ...Havre co-operated in arrangements for the agent .s dispatch.
'He was arrested 'ehartly 'after landing in Africia, end n reports were ever
recleived: frOm

The sec?ricl 'agent, a Belgian national named 13E80=111K . Who had spent
many prp .-War,,years in the !Belgian COngo, .an4. was recruited r ,Aust_ Antwerp,
gtill trained. Jointly . by the AntWerp
and, bY Nest Bremen, ms.8 sent to
Lisbon,en roUte -for : the :Belgian Congo, where he was tO . establishTIVT con tn....cit with Ikuuburg and to,.tranetiit' intelligence of an dom.:raise awl...general
nature. 7hiie in Lisbon, this agent was entrusted to the Care of GRIMM.
Ths.agent failed to reach the Belgian Congo, being arrested arrival in
England, in which country . he had hoped: to procure a Vies: for the Congo.
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In L.pril 1942 a second agent, 'Alfred L0113E114 was dispatched to
Canada, this time by submarine; ' however, elthoUgh ,. :ttfe agent had. been
trained and controlled by Nest Bremen offiials,'this" m. iseion- was directed
by '4'-i.bte4.1ung ThI,'' ; ,
! :'
,.
the sane year
. . .Frank WeAe.' JORDAN: MO: dispatched by )3.T.scuon to
South .11raerida;':: this, agent was clireotea"to settle in RAC' de Janeiro, and
.shortly after his arrival he eStablished con-66.dt' with 'Bremen, 'transmitting' Shipping intelligence which proved of little Value.
GICTANNI organisation in Portugal

,,
By the smiler of 194.2, MIMI had 'establis.hed a large network of
agents in Lisbon, Madeira the Azores and. Portuguese iAfricr., from whom he
received excellent shipAllg reports. The whole network, which probably
comprised at least two dozen agents, was knialm as the GIOVANNI organisation.
Through the recruitment of members of crews of Portuguese vessels, GRIMM
orgenisad a courier system of communications with outlying agents.
,

V I 0

'

:I
PORTUGZ.L.

(o. 8 agents)

I
HORTA, AZORES

I.
PORTUGUESE VEST LAMA

I or more ezerits . Stiveraiants, orie of

.whco Con:broiled 'cents

in the BELGILN CONGO

IEDEIRA

imut DaSE
0'tLJiflfbbUt

.8 sub-agents.

. .

.11

7,

4.

: i..' Xn.. /94' BENSMOR tralhod three or four ravropuw,k) 401 an I-network
vh*oh . he planned:to.OtabIlsh Anthe rie,b4P.P ielb,p ur ho od, but while an
route in Ligeira these agahtstehaved
itresponsiblyand were sent back

to Gernan3r.
-
, ;.
.VieW . g th,'S posSibility .-6hat', 404i4. de-.
1914.2
. ths,
.Qid to ..deport German nationals, it. was ,deoided, ;firstly, that a nUmber of,
. Spanish natioriald Shotild'be -txo.ined as T1/T agents, 2and Siebnd2y that a .
aaurier service' should be formed to convey letters 14- . band. from 'the- FrancoSpanish frontier to Bremen. ' This second telln was' aobbraplished :bY the
'Waits:Lent of
in. Paris:" Toprooing, Tilburg and 'Groningen. Unfortuna..tely for the .first part o'f-the...pann, however, November ,. saw the arrest in
: of GRT'r and his .ohief assistant; ;i.rbb would -Piave'. carried out the
; LiSbon
Work
reoruitnen1 before much progress had been ade,' and a few weeks
Itter. eight more of the 'GIOVANNI . network were . arreistecl..by The Portuguese.
In ;Spite of 'repeated. efforts by B/BOHOFF he never sti6Ceeded .Billy.re-
establishing the Renet in Portugal. However, after . a ntOber' ;ce visi4s
in

In

links

in

end representations :to , K. O. Portugal, BISCHOFF sileicie'eded'in'treouring 'the

1914.3, the majority of the netrelease of GRIlitt and: . his . ..at'siSttait

work oontinui to be held under arrest.

:., 4

14

rithentallye4n France in
Ln Aussenstelle of Nest . Bremcn tras , pet UP. P2L'
January 1943. . This amounted to little more than a -17/T pi:mtg. ' . Two W/T
operators were sent by BISCHOFF to St. Jean de , .L.u.p, where they installed a
tx.laraitter, Ana. eStablished contact with PreMen. l'he purpose behind this
move is not clear,' but', as :Par as is 'main, the 'Stolle' was utilised mainly
as a 1ong-diOaf.16, & practice station, to which qualified' Nest ...Bremen agents
' - 'arid operators. were seiht for short ,periods and from which daily traffic was
exehanged -with, *dents at the Bremen Stelle: ytqk ir i arge of this
Puxikatelle until bray 19414. when he as replaCed by Werte tJ12KE.1
Apnointment of DRIESSEN as Leiter.

"a March. 1943, ',CARL was

transferred to Marseilles, , and Adolf DRIESSEN

wa.s/ promoted
' ti" . tako hiS place: a's' Nest Leiter. DIZIESSEN . proved to be



.

apathetic and, ,,ineffectual Leader, and was . .content to allow BISCHOFF'

-B M N
to take the initio.tiVe . in the .110s,t ! if entilrPrilses:
Agent NetWork in the Iberian Peninsula

an

Eald

ThroughoUt..19/4.3. ; 'abortive attempts were. made by BISCHOFF to re-establish

to 'build up
and. strengthen the ..gav'ANtri organisation- 1n : Pbrtugal 'and

network of :71/Zage'rits in Spain. 213palty, amatig waS s sent. to Madrid in this

connection, but 'he'prOba
- blY'hEva little suc,osss.
Syrlitterland

....Another .htuiting-g ro und for intelligence :wait Switzerland., which kfest

Bremen officieas and agents , visited from *le to tine throiighout the vrars

: A not ii-orisiderable quantity

generally under cover Of `personal busines

of !Material was amassed in this 4-Inner; theintell&genee thus obtained

y
bei:ng largely of : an elorioraio nature
Nonth

,H

'

-..i the . .Sur6er: of .19144 in the light of the termination of parspaigns

,,North. Africa, IM Sued -considered it deSire,151e. to Create : an intelligence
.. net/work in thitct country,. and . eince,,t1CUANN, an official of :Nest Bremen was',
, in tOuch with . .krab eiroles 'in Syria and Iraq it was .', decided that Nest

1416N 'was . ordered to inves.

Bremen
'Undertake.' this, task.
014......6.
.tigs.te the possibility of recruiting
4.4
rance
e.ttl . North Africa:
B
-thrOugh .theSe ocintnots. . :A: numbsr Of 'Ars.b.s Was interViewed by BENSM1X17. in
-Fro'npe,

nonetWas 1 66ns'idered Su.iis.b14 -for 'recruitment as an agent, and

although the effort to find eligible recruits Was SUstained Until the
r.

FrEmoe.

of '1944. i-the 'prciject. had. finallir bd-' abs.ndahed. ',

.

In January 19144, further unsuccessful attempts were made to obtain

the e.e 't44)-1-1-qhmeri

elligence regarding Mediterranean shipping, thoughr
.
ageTnts alo ng the South Coast of France.

In the spring of 19Li+ a single .agent, Josef FARRACQO 'TUFF, was trained
for a general 3.ntelligenne mission in Egypt, but was killed en route and was
not replaced.
V.

ADSSENSTP.T4TA EllETENt June 1 94049445.

Spears to have eft.: The absorption of the Abwehr into the E.S11.A.
little praotioal Change in , the Bremen. Stella. Whir. iteil
fkription
ohd staff. gr.aebiAi
dirindled, there We no draatic alterations
, or _Administration..
y

aratio nrvation

Gernan

In the atiner of 1944.. a half-hearted 'attempt Wasird.4..to establish

star-behind. agents in the south of France, who .w.c?.11,3 repOrt..1;137,' Yirtraess
on he progress of the Allied Forces advancing' fro/MA:he south; no satisfadtery results were 0.4:thieved.
. .
At this time .0. scheme, known as Unternehmen Sued, was 'devised by 3SEL
in anticipation: of 19.nd,ings on the north , :ooast Of "Gerbany. ThiS under--;
takng- involved the .asserably of a fleet of Dutch. fishing Vesiseis . and. their
osition along the coast. , CarefUlly selected tt.T . operatorS: were placed
on each vessel, with inStruction.s to report any. signs ' of an approaohing
Allibeseaboe invasion force. Nest Bremen participated in this operation
to the extent of...inSpecting and servicing the ' 17/T traniMittere on these
vesSels and at the controlling station in Delfziily BLSCHOFF supervd:sing
this work 4
This plan ' exemplifies the desperate and ineffectual attempts of the
"RSIlt-,. to prepare tor the Allied invasion of' 'Geiwny. Such a scheme could
never have produced any results, for the lOw-i-gro.de agents 'selected as operatore would alMost certainly not have had the 'courage 'to' betray themselves
to the enew by transmitting had they in fact found. themselves overtaken by
an larrasion fleet.
: In September, in vieW of the .progreaSi 3Of `the Allies in Prcnoc.an
. attempt was made to transfer the St. Jean de LiiziStelle'to Bilbao, but
shortly after his arrival in Bilbao the W/T operator was .expelled from
S1)a4-n by LO. Madrid, Objection being taken te', Kis
. , 'tinheraided arrival in
SPE14-11.
, An aftempt.wae made in November to obtain infonaatiOrx . concerning p.otivitieS on: the Western Front, and about the current' , situation in, France,. by the
formation of a stet-behind network' of W/T agents, to Which end. ESNSMANN
visited the -neighboUrhoOd. of Baden--13aden. This project was found itpiossible
of fulfilment and had to be abandoned.
,
.
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, By the end of the year,' with the occupation Of GerizanY anci the end of
the ,war in sight., on.lY three . senior officials remained. in Aussenstelle
Brea:I:en, nar.Aely BISCHCFF, BENS/SANN
and. the Leiter LE/IESSEN. BMW= found
himSelf without work, and devoted his : attention for the rer*i naer of the
war to the oil industry, joining a..subsidiary , fina under the Speer organisation. Bi3aE-10PF directed his energieS, to: the es;tablishment of stay-behind
agents in the area, for 4which'Aussenstelle Bremen was responsible. The
organisation of st.%v 4;lbeltincl . nt-.1work,a in Wehrkreis X \We..6 directed. by NIDM
ii0.mburg, and BratiaeriOsi area of responsibility in the WehricreiS was bouxided
byhihe Dutch frontier in the West, a line, Do.ssing throUgh. Emden, Leer,:
Old nburg and. Bremen,. in the North, the river ;17eser in the East, and the
We kr.eie boundary in the South. The agents were to Operate only beyond
a depth of 501Cri from the fighting frontr, the , intervening 501Cri being the
responsibility of the FrontaUfkle.erungs organisation' ;
By -January 1945
'
BISCHOFF' s star-behinci agents =bored about Sixtee,ns and were appaiently.

"

considered. by Ent HanbUrg to be satisfactory, although BISCHOFF himself admits that he was unable to obtain recruits of any calibre, and that the
- majority were apathetio said. had no intention of operating after the Allied
oocupation. 'Bach agent Wad trained in code and. in ..morSei thd. was1,.dquipped
with .a transmitter. "Ai:far as is known, not a single agent Made contact
;

with his oo:htrci*station".-:

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VI 06-1PERATION. 17ITH l'd317t1i4.AND MIL5 ./XT H.Q. 17ITI-1 ilEGHt0Uit.ING 'fSZELLEN:

.

In addition to the activities conducted. on its bwri behalf, from tine .

to tine Nest Brenen si.Vplied agents, recruited and: traihed : by Nest Bremen
officials, for miSsions.direeted. by Abteilung its frca. Berld..n: For example,
in the suciaer of 1944* IM Sud . 0dt trarieferred. an agent of NeSt-Bronen Hans
Mission to hexGEORGLIDES, to Athens, whence he was dispatched on on IM
andria. A Second exaraPle; preViously -mentioned, is that of A.14,:riia . LAitGHEIN, sent tolCanado.
. br. submarine in 194.2 Cu
. a miseion directed by Abti
Nest personnel alse frequently , assistecl other 3M Ste1141,'n:otably Aust
Antwerp aid Net Brest, the latter Stele being in origin en offshoot of
'Nest Bremen.v.althongli'eubdrainated to List Paris.

, STIBORDINATION
VII

a). October 1935-1937: During this initial phase in its ;history, Nest
Bremen was subordinated . administratively to .Ast 17ilhelmshayeri, Operationally
to Alrgehr 11,Q :
. Berlin.

b) 1231-June 19244t' In 1937 the N* est beco.ue sUborcalititbd. administratively

(for discipline,. pos tings and transport) to Ls t Hathilig,"*Tille 'operationally it remathned
under
.
direct control clf lOolsrehr H.Q., .Which . alsq dtealt with
with Nest's finance and -Pronotions

o) wi;
1
During the mil: Amt Pho:se,,Ausseristel..1.6
Bremen was entirely subordinated' to ithM Horaburg, , all orders issued by the
Mil.'.grat being d* irected to 'Brenezi. threb.g,h ., ta OW Leiter.

.
iss).reiteratleil,

however, that the Stelle enjoyed _throughout its

existence a Unique degree of independeried. At Hamburg exercieed virtually no control over the Met's- activities, while such directiVes as were
received from Berlin were those resulting from general changes in policy.
Constructive or pro.ctical advice on raethod:s of operation were.o.pparently
seldom given, and the successes .achieved by Nest Bierderi were die entirely
to the ability. of ,its off leers ' and 'Cannot 'be r egarded as refle at ing credit
on the Abwehr as a wh'ole,
' '
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.
VIII TRAINING ESTABLISH:LENTS

.. .

7 NEST BREEN

.
:

(1) 7/T Sehool: This school was established , -et ;the beginning of the
war, under the charge of Sdf. -S0 $ or .
cx, in the Wachtstrasse Offices of
the Nebenstelle, In March 1943 SCHIERBNBBOK left Bremen and 'was replaced
by Ogefr. LANGNER, and the VT school was transferred for a few raonths to
Hamburg. Towards the end of 19/4.3. it..Wa.e' again sot up, in Breraen,, with
BISCHOFF, as its , controlling officer. Instruction was gien to 'agents in
raorse, codes, W/T transilithiibn f arid construction; but the training of important agents Was frequently supplemented by a course in the Hamburg 17/T
school. The Hamburg Punkstelle exercised close control over the Bremen
school, and regular supervisory visits were pad by Ii Officials of the
Ast Homburg training school, A 'tuber of ' agents ,:cbritrolled. by ether
Stellen were given full or suppleraentory training.421...the :Bremen 17/T school,
SteIlen known to have used the schbol . for the training of their agents include Let Wiesbaden, Ast Netherlands, Ast Brussels, end Ast qtetttin.
The Ii section t s functions comprised agent-training . and the equipment
and servicing of agents' transmitters only. No W/T .coMmUnication was
ccradvated With Other Stollen, or with Nest Bremen Ove rs-eas, whose traffi
was handled by the Let itenburg 11/T station.
In SePtember or October 1944- the school was evao.uated to Lusb.eck.

- 10

(2)
SeotiOn The Leiter . of rg in 1.93 17-6S Lt ESTORFF.
,probably left , in 1940, the work :being continued 'lay*his assistant Vialter =PIG. The 'Office and laboratory was tituated in the irato des ;Zeiches' ' *In ad-;
dition to the training of agents in SAT 'large part of the Work done by
this section conSisted. in the development of films of defences, '6.itiar*r#6,
buildings etc. brought in by agents returning from b.bboad. TIOEVIG aito,
specialised in the preparation of microphotographd and the tra.ining of agents
in this subject.: .
DC ST. JE.,A.N

DE LUZ .

FUNKSTETTP,

Leiter" 4pril 19L.3 - May 1944: , :iime GRIMM:

liray 192+4 -*, *July 194: TTerner *R0EP10E
l&claress: "TranspOrttieberwachUngsst.eLle" "; Narida Schokoa,
'Rue Vonbau(?), St. Jean de . Luz.
The function of this oUtetp.tion has been described ' above4-14).1n* addition, the personnel were tible to facilitate theiliontieraitsaing -of ,Nest
Bremen personnel wishing to enter Spain. in .:+ugust 1944 tIle Office' 'Was
closed. and all equipthent dstro.ed the , Per SanneI : le airing 'fOr! Bi1bto'
X OFFICES USED BY NEST BREMEN
(1)Hata des Reiches; lierclentorwall, .BreMen
:offices
. (? identical witfi. (2) below).

"
(2) f, Kriegsmarine'lL.enststaUe, HaUs 49.p Rihes ichteWeg 7; ,,Brecen
head . offiaCs and Ig labOratorY of Nest Bremen:
(3)

"seevag

offic3eS Sedverkers-und-Navigationsbuero, VTachtstrasseE

27-29, Bremen - BISCHOFF t s offices and N/T school.:
(Formerly BISCHOFF s business premises.)

(4) "Interfraco" (Internationale Frachticontor) .

,
Drethen . (bcr.bed earIY in the *filar)
Ludendorfstrasse
and Poatfp.ati. 2.37, Bremen,

Offices used by

CRI1211

ir+

DiS14on.,,

Ci.a Comorcio IberiO Ultratarine Las, (01BUL)

Rua Eugenio dos . Santos .2730, 'Lisbon.

Offiees used

GRnat (undori alias Sr.

Don Harald'GRJ1SSHQFF taltadtid

Calle de ,Rafael Calvo 42-1, Madrid,

Telephone Number .of . Nest DreMen, - 29216.
, Feldpostnu-Tler of Nest Bremen - 33039.
MEER=

4 NEST IMEN /LENTS

. e4. en were allotted identgio. 0:tion

AgetitS Cont,rolled by Nest . Br

=abets

in the fol.16Wing series:

2300 - 2399
2600 7 2699
4.800- 4S99

and

accdrding to an unconfirraed source in the following additional series also

2000 2099

2100 - 2199

2200 2299

XII APPRE0

I.A2

ION

}Test Brom& a

achievements. were undoubtec113r considerable during Pillterai a

terim of office as Leiter, although the ultinate value of the intelligeTho-e

Procured cannot be 'judged. tPHEIFFER showed , great initiative, Was extronely industrious and sustained considerable enthns iasta for his work
The succeeding Leiters lacked inspiration and indeed, most of the good
qualities shown by PHEIPFER, and DRIEBSEN in particular . giive the appearance of being entirely apathetic towards his duties.

The development of agent networks after PBEIFFER I s departure in May

1914.0 'Ens achieved largely by Virtue of the extensive business connections
possessed by DENSMIIN and the industry .nd intelligence which BISOHCFF
brought to ,his work, but both these officers lacked the authority and experience ofTHEle.blIK. Had they posviesedthese qualities; and had 13.17SIEZIN
been less pre-occupied 1,7ith his own business interests, they would. no doubt
have been able to carry mit the various project's, notably in France and
the Iberian Peninsula, with a greater neteUre of success.
Another factor which handicapped. the Nest s undertakings was the poor
standard Of- its agents, a disadvantage reflected in the niajority thr the
Abwehr and. iiilo-amt undertakings5 lany of the agents possessed. a low
degree of intelligence, and. almost all worked for mercenary rather than
ideological notiVes. As more and more non becane incorporated in Germanyts
armed. foroes the hice of recruits available to the Nest becane increasinglY
smaller and the recruits were not of the type to neke enterprising or loyal
agents.
The bistox7 of Nest Bremen show i a gradual ,but continUal decline
and enterprise .which date a from the auttimn of l912, when the
GIOVANNI network was liquidated by the Portugbese
succeas

Never'the1ess4 in its primary futation, that of collecting naval and

intelligence on behalf of Abtei1ung fl Nest Bremen, conspicuous
among_ Abwehrstellen operating against the Western Al.iies, achieved results
of value and won considerable credit for its 14:alders:

8hipping

NEST BREMEN ESTARLISHLIENT 1939-1940

-Leiter
Deputy'
Assistants
-

Secretary

Dr. .Brich PHEIFFER

: Major Hamm,
Sdf. Dr. Nikolaus BENSL1ANN
( SIC. Johannes BISCHOFF
: Frl. S4LINSKI

I g

L
-

Maj. AUCENER (Leiter)

Sdf'. HENSMANN'
Frl. Hilda =MORI' (secretary)

k.,-6 -.
(Leiter)
K.Lt. CARL
K.Lt. Ilfil11ACIM.
SIC. SCIITIEJANN
Augest. AL=
KLAM

H-ptx: 174074.1.1 .4Leiter) Sdf ..,. SCH1ERENHECK Lt. ESTOR1,1'

2 civilian TVT
Walter HOEFIG,
crperatora
I

PresseWirtschaftsbeftagungsdienst
KeLt. CARL

SM. BISCHOFF

Ip2

saf. scammutimat saf.

Schiffsbefragt.mgsdienst
Sdf. Karam:macGRUEN MEE

Ilicounts (ZF)
Sdf. T:Talter PRICY

Registry
7erner RCEEKE
Frl. WRIING

Transport Gua.
2 civilians
--'

1 cOrpOral.
raen

NEST BREMEN ESTABLISMENT FEBRUARY 19)4

:K.K. Hans CARL

Loiter
Secretary : Fri. SCHWOEBMANN

IM

Hpt. Adolf DR1ESSEN Leiter K.Lt. LIHRMAMER

Eduard ALBREGTT
&if. BISCHOFF
IVO
Lt. ADDICES
saf. GRIM

Ii

I Luft

Ig

Accounts'

Sdf.. Dr. HERMANN Sdf. SCHIERENERIK Sdf. BISCHOFF Walter FRICKE

Uffz. MEM
Walter HaEFIG Uffz. WULFF
Gefr. OMEN

Registry
Werner RaLZKE

,
-I
with G-eatapo E."

la

:Li aison

Ma jor lagiaiS
IESSEN
ALM=

Krim.Asst. HARMON
jIEST flR

.ES914.*TaSHMENT liFICEMBER. 1944

Leiter Major DRIESSEN

I Marine

8c Miscellaneous I

duties

Hpt. =aim
K.Lt. BENSMANN

Ii
Hpt. BLSCBDFF -

HOE1.IG

- 14 -

NEST MEMEN PMSONNEL

Loitors:

(1) October 1935-May 1940

(2) May 1940-March 1943
(3) March 1943-1945

: 'Dr. Erich PHE NM'

: K.K...Hans CARL:
": Maj. Adolf DRIESSEN

11 Officials and subordinato Staff:

4aLICKS, Lt.

4. SOO

IM. 1940-Jan. 1944. Transforred

to WilhOlmshavon.
Ia.
IN. 1941-Jan'. 1944. Lai ter TH
April 43-Jan. 44. Transforred
in Bromen
to Ast Hamburg 111

ARYS
Rittmoistor
ALBRECHT .Hpt. Eduard
14M

15.

_Sdf. c!c
ALTHOFF.'

ANDFM,- ,.0gofr.
APNOLD, .
A.UGNER, Major ':i'indroas

4-EaliSMANN;Sdf. kSeit.Dt. Dr.

Nikolaus @
.
DOC

!:+13tscHolip, Sdf. &Apt. Johannos

9.KIRCHENFUERSTH ONKEL
BOESE,
BOMM,

Frl. Anne
Alfred

- MOM; Waldomer,
+BRINKER,Agefr.'
ERUENY,.Frl. Antoine
BUEDELMANN or DFZEIMANN
CARL K.K: Hans.

mi. 1939-May 1940. Transforrod

to Brost with PHEIFFER.

- Secretary to FRICKE.
- Loiter IH 1938-1940 or 41.
IM. Transferred to Aust
Antworp 1941.,
- 1938-1945.H Succeasively in
IL & . r.1, and -specialist in oil
industry.
- fl1.19384945.
- Socrotary . to BENSUANN939-1945.
- Socretary'19380arly 1944.
- EA courier for . BISCHOFF
-

SecrotarY.

- IM until' C.
- Army'driver:.',
- Secrotary!and . later Ia Officer.
(Until 1945.)
- Socretary
,
- Nost.Leiter 144 1940-March 1943;
than appointed-Harbour Master',
Marseilles.

Representative or head agent

CLAYTON, Egon CLAIRON

TT.

STEPHAN,

- Ruckwanderersbefragungsdienst,
1942-July 2943 and Fob. 1944Dec. 1944. ..
.
DiZIESSENi . .liaj.. Adolf Friodrich - Appointed to III 15.2.41; and
Nest Leiter March 1945 until
DRUISFNEERG
the lend of war,.

+MAHLHAUS, Hans GeOrg.'

+

ESTORFF, Lt.
+FRICKE, Sdf . . Stabsintondant
Walther Friodrich Hugo
+ GEIRUNG, Fri.
GERDES
GERSDORF, Hilda
GIESCHEN, Fw.
GRAOTSCH, Uffz.

Leiter.

Ig

19391940.

- 21% Aacouiant & Paymaster

1939-945;

Secretary to:PHEIFFER; trans .-.

forrod:t Bret.M7 1940.
Secretary "to.PHEIFFER; transferred . to Prost May 1940..

Th

GRIM, Hans Friedrich

@ GIOVANNI @ Don Harald
GRASSHOFF
GRUHN Sdf.i& Lt.

IM head agent in,Milan

of Poninsula
networks 1940-1944.
IM & Schiffaberagungsdionst;
transferred to Aust Antworp
7

1939-1940; head

1942.

HAMENS, Maj.
HAWMJANZ, Ogofr.
HARTUMN, Krim.Ass. & Ger.

Ogpfr.
. 1-HOEFIG, Angostolltor Walter
IA.HOFRAT.
1-10MANN, Dr. Otto @
HOMEM.G , :a .

- Liaison official botwoon Not

Broman & Gostapo c. 1942spring 1945. Previously.
attaahod to Nest Sept. 1939-

114y.1940.
- ZF. Assistant to FRICKE.
Ig. January 1939-1945. Instructor
in SA &microphotography.
worked for
Photographer.
Stelle'Roland & Dulag Nor.
BENSMANN's ohiof'agent recruiter,

'

1939-45.

- Contact of BENSUANN in Milan,

used as cover-address for agents
in U.S.A.
- Chauffeur.

HUENEEEN
ILLIEES. , Dr..

- Important agent recruiter for

EMISMANN.

+KASSNER, RIST @ KATZ @

KARMANN, Erich
KAHLE, Uffz.
KLAMPERMEYER
KIJAPS, K.Lt.
KRE3S, Frau Thoa
KUEHL, Obit.
KLUSSMEIER, Hpt.
LANGER or LANGNER, Ogefr.
LAUSM, Fri.
'

LEMU I S LEHMANN
, Ogefr..
LINDMIANN g LANGE
+ LUMS , Erich @ BECKER

MUELLER

- DoputSr Loitor (?) 1939-1941.

Ia official.

Also

alD or t D I CKI2
.

OTERUETM
ONNEN, Wilfrod . @ OTTO

- W/T operator and courier.

- Ii. W/T.instruotor.
.1- Army driver.: . -

- Loit.wift. 1939-1944.

Rogistry,
- IM, 1939-1942.

- Ia (1942).
Hoad.of W/T . schooi,. 1945-s.
194).
'Secretary.
W/T inStrutt6r

ii

1943- .

W/Tinstrwtor 1943-

- Ii. Instructor in morso and

1944-45.
- Courier for BISCHOFF.
- Chauffeur.

- Interrogator.
- Ii. W/T instruct6r.
:.

,PFLUECBER
PHEIFFER, Fref.Kpt. Dr. Erich- Loiter Not Bremen, 1937-May 1940.
DOCTOR @ EDERHOF
SPThILMANN P-PANNHORST etc.
W/Tinstructor.
FRAMANN, Uffz.
secretary.to . 'DENSMANN. TrariaPRUEN, Fraul.,neo
forrod to Ast.the Haguo.
LEOHTENERINK

REama RETTER Ogefr.

i

REICHENIERG,,Kari.
HEIMANN or REIMANN,'Uffz.

Ii. Assistant tojiINUEMANN.

- In Marseilles 1941.
W/T

 '

RO

Or I

Werner

- Head of Nest Registry until ..

1944; trained as W/T instuotor
and sent to St. Joan de Tillz Stolle
spring 1944. Sept. 1944 .4. ansferred to M.FAK60.
W/T instructor.

I ROSSBACA, Offz..Otto
ADESSMIER

SCHIERENnECK, Sdf.. Wilhelm

SCHTRUER
SCHLTE, Lt!. Dr.
SCHNELL Fri.

+ SCHUCHMANII, Sdf.
.Hoinri6100. SCHROEDER
SOHWcB, Fri. DICTJB
SICIC;

Ftl.
'SZELINSKI.F1.
+ TECKLEMDORG, Frl. Beatrix

- 1i. Loiter W/T sehool, & Ipi . .

1939,4broh 1943.

- Sooretary in,IMi.
- IM. Transferred to Nest Brest
summer 1940.

- Secretary.

- Seoretary.'
- Agent recruiter.
- Secretary.
- Sooretary.
. .
- Secretary tolORIESSEN libroh 1943April 1945.

UTHE, Lt:z.See & Sdf.

- Th1, 1939-1940. Leiter I10.1940l42 . . Died 1943.

- . TM until 1942. Viansfethred'te,

VOECK, Frau Inge '

Secretary

UHLNACHM ; K .Lt

Norway.

4 Registrar.

- loiter I Luft 19394941, when

. transferred to Ast Hamburg,

+WRIZIAU, Hpt.
WULFF, Uffz.

=_War Room notified of arrest.)

. .

'

MAIN SOURCES.

P1:46,969.
K.K..Erioh FUEIFFER,
Sdf. Johannes*BISCHOFF, FF.601,785
Sdf. Nikolads BENSUNN I FF.602,110
w.u.c.i/c.
5 .2.46.

Distribution: Standard for Liquidation Reports.

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