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Markus Johannes Wolf, also known as Mischa, was a German spymaster who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the most effective spymasters during the Cold War. In the West, he was kno…

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culture · East German intelligence service chief (1923–2006) · writer · journalist · intelligence officer · functionary · editing staff · spy · also Markus Wolf, Markus Johannes "Mischa" Wolf, Markus Johannes Wolf, Wolf

Born 19 January 1923 · Died 9 November 2006 · Q57399

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Won Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1985).
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2011· 2 entries

2011Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The Sword and the Shield, a story of the Stasi in France

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2011Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

The State Social Court of Berlin-Brandenburg ruled that the widow Andrea Wolf was not entitled to a "compensation pension" that her husband had been stripped of as a "fighter against fascism"

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2006· 1 entry

Nov 9, 2006Documented record86% confidence

Died 2006-11-09.

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1997· 1 entry

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Was convicted of unlawful detention, coercion, and bodily harm, and was given a suspended sentence of two years' imprisonment

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1993· 1 entry

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Wolf was convicted of treason by the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf and sentenced to six years' imprisonment

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1986· 1 entry

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With the rank of Generaloberst, being succeeded by Werner Grossmann as head of the East German foreign intelligence service

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1985· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1985Documented record84% confidence

Won Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1985).

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1969· 1 entry

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Claudia Wall (born in either 1969 or 1970), a step daughter of Markus Wolf, was married from autumn 1997 until late 2008 to Hans Wall, the founder of an outdoor and street furniture firm Wall AG.

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1944· 2 entries

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Married his first wife Emmy Stenzer, the daughter of the German Communist Franz Stenzer, and who was the curator of the archives of Friedrich Wolf, Markus Wolf's father

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1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

In 1944, he married his first wife Emmy Stenzer, the daughter of the German Communist Franz Stenzer, and who was the curator of the archives of Friedrich Wolf, Markus Wolf's father.

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1942· 1 entry

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Where he among others was prepared for undercover work behind enemy lines

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1940· 1 entry

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Which was evacuated to Alma Ata after Nazi Germany's attack (Operation Barbarossa) on the USSR

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1936· 1 entry

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At the age of 13, he obtained Soviet identity documents

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1933· 1 entry

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Wolf emigrated to Moscow with his father, via Switzerland and France, because of their communist convictions and because Wolf's father was Jewish

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1923· 1 entry

Jan 19, 1923Documented record86% confidence

Born 1923-01-19.

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