- Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer (1914) was a German national who served as SS "
Obersturmführer " in the "Sicherheitsdienst " duringWorld War II . After the war, he found a working relationship with Gehlen Org. and was subsequently a spy for the East German "Stasi ".Sommer joined the "
Hitlerjugend " at age sixteen, and joined the SS (1932) andNSDAP (1933) respectively. He was chiefly in function of the "Sicherheitsdienst " (SD) before his service in the "Wehrmacht " (1936-38). Afterwards, he became a deputy toOtto Somann at SDLeignitz , followed by a stint inBreslau . He was active in the occupation of Sudetenland with rank of "Oberscharführer". On his return to Germany, he came to work at the SD headquarters, for which he was later posted toParis ,France . In 1940, he was promoted to "Obersturmführer".In October 1941, unbeknownst to his superiors, Sommer helped plan an attack on seven
synagogue s in Paris, inspired by the 1938 pogrom, in collaboration withEugène Deloncle .cite news | title = Weiße Flecken in der Geschichte des Bundesnachrichtendienstes | publisher = Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | date = May 13, 2008] A four week suspension of pay resulted for "SS-unwürdigen Verhaltens" and he wouldn't find promotion in the next three years. He was subsequently posted toMarseille andNice .After the war, Sommer was captured by the Americans, who sought his employ to infiltrate a Nazi ratline formed around Frenchman
Charles Lescat , whom Sommer met inMadrid just before his capture. He was moved toCamp King ,Oberursel , after convincing the Americans that such an attempt would be unsuccessful. From Camp King he was deported to France to stand trial before a military court, which sentenced him to two years detention. He settled back to Germany afterwards.Between 1950 and 1953 he found himself working for the Gehlen Organization (GO), the unofficial West German intelligence organization. Unemployed in 1953, Sommer began to spy for the East German "
Stasi ", handing over far reaching details on his former West German employer.References
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