Werner Teske (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Werner Teske (24 April 1942 - 26 June 1981) was a Hauptmann (Captain) of the Ministry for State Security of East Germany who was executed after having been found guilty of "planned treason." He was the last person to be executed in the German Democratic Republic, and the last person to be executed in Germany.Werner Teske was recruited by the Ministry as a student. After obtaining his doctorate in economics, he became responsible for economic espionage in foreign countries for the General Reconnaissance Administration (Hauptverwaltung Aufkl rung), the intelligence arm of the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for National Security. Starting in the mid-1970s, Teske considered a defection into West Germany. He planned to use some Stasi information and materials as an "entrance fee." After some irregularities in his work had come to attention of the Ministry, he was seized and the documents cache was found. He was tried at the 1st Military Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the DDR and, despite the defence counsel's argument that the defection had never been realized and no information had reached the West, Teske was sentenced to death in 1981.