“created the impression of being a playboy, almost a wastrel, the very antithesis of a keen and dangerous spy”
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Richard Sorge
Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й).
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culture · German journalist and Soviet spy (1895–1944) · journalist · intelligence officer · diplomat · spy · also Richard Sorge, doctor Sorge, Rikhard Zorge, Sorge
Born 4 October 1895 · Died 7 November 1944 · Q44580
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Riddles of Richard Sorge - Full Cast and Crew
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2016· 1 entry
One of Moscow's Moscow Central Circle rail stations was named after Sorge (Zorge)
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1984· 1 entry
Concluded that the closest Sorge came was 20 June and that Sorge himself never claimed to have discovered the correct date (22 June) in advance
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1971· 1 entry
A comic book based on Sorge's life, Wywiadowca XX wieku ("20th Century Intelligence Officer"), was published in the People's Republic of Poland to familiarise younger readers with Sorge
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1965· 1 entry
Three East German journalists published Dr Sorge funkt aus Tokyo in celebration of Sorge and his actions
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1964· 4 entries
Awarded Hero of the Soviet Union (1964).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1964).
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Won Gold Star medal (1964).
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That on 15 June, Sorge had sent a radio dispatch saying, "The war will begin on June 22"
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1955· 1 entry
Have shaped Sorge's image in the West, especially Germany, ever since their publication
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1954· 1 entry
The West German film director Veit Harlan wrote and directed the film Verrat an Deutschland about Sorge's espionage in Japan
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1949· 1 entry
And that the Sorge spy ring was in the process of taking over the U
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1944· 1 entry
Died 1944-11-07.
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1941· 4 entries
And had already known independently of the intelligence provided by Sorge that Japan had decided to "strike south" (attacking the United States and the British Empire), instead of "striking north" (attacking the Soviet U
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His embassy contacts made him learn of Operation Barbarossa, the imminent Axis invasion of the Soviet Union and the approximate date
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Career landmark: arrest.
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“give very careful study to the question of whether or not Japan was planning to attack the USSR”
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1940· 1 entry
And 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union
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1938· 2 entries
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador to Britain, was promoted to foreign minister, and to replace Ribbentrop, Dirksen was sent to London
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Sorge reported to Moscow that the Battle of Lake Khasan had been caused by overzealous officers in the Kwantung Army and that there were no plans in Tokyo for a general war against the Soviet Union
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1937· 1 entry
During the Great Purge, as he realised the risk of arrest because of his German citizenship
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1935· 2 entries
Sorge passed on to Moscow a planning document provided to him by Ozaki, which strongly suggested that Japan was not planning on attacking the Soviet Union in 1936
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As "a typical, swashbuckling, arrogant Nazi
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1930· 1 entry
Sorge was sent to Shanghai
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1929· 2 entries
Sorge went to the United Kingdom to study the labour movement there, the status of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the country's political and economic conditions
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Sorge was invited to join the Red Army's Fourth Department (the later GRU, or military intelligence) by department head Yan Karlovich Berzin
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1925· 1 entry
Joined the Soviet Communist Party and received Soviet citizenship
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1924· 1 entry
Was made responsible for the security of a Soviet delegation attending the KPD's congress in Frankfurt
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1922· 1 entry
Was relocated to Frankfurt, where he gathered intelligence about the business community
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1914· 1 entry
As a right-wing nationalist, became disillusioned by what he called the "meaninglessness" of the conflict and gravitated to the political left
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-10-04.
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