Julius Steiner ( him. Julius Steiner ; September 18, 1924 , Stuttgart - September 8, 1997 , Friedberg ) - German politician, member of the Christian Democratic Union . He gained fame as one of two Bundestag deputies who abstained in 1972 from voting on a vote of no confidence in German Chancellor Willy Brandt .
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Biography
In the years 1942-1945, Julius Steiner was at the front. At the end of the war until 1952 he worked for French intelligence, studied philosophy, theology and history, but did not receive a diploma of higher education. Until 1957, he worked for the Federal Constitutional Protection Service in Baden-Württemberg, then the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany . In 1969, Steiner was elected to the Bundestag on the CDU party list.
In 1973, in an interview with Der Spiegel, Steiner admitted that in 1972 he abstained from voting on the vote of no confidence in Willy Brandt to support the policy of the Federal Chancellor, and also because as a double agent since 1972, he was spying for the GDR under the supervision of the Federal Intelligence Agency. services and transferred information about the CDU to the Ministry of State Security of the GDR , where he was a freelancer under the pseudonym "Theodore". Subsequently, Steiner claimed that he had received 50,000 German marks from the head of the SPD faction apparatus, Karl Winand . In 1973, Steiner resigned from the CDU.
In 1997, Markus Wolf, a former head of the foreign intelligence service of the GDR, confessed in Steiner's bribing in his memoirs “Playing in a foreign field. Thirty years at the head of intelligence. " Steiner consciously cooperated with the Stasi, which is confirmed by the relevant dossier in the MGB GDR. In addition, there is a version that another source paid for the vote in the Bundestag of Steiner. According to the memoirs of historian Brigitte Seebacher , the widow of Willy Brandt, having learned from television news that Julius Steiner received 50,000 German marks from the MGB GDR, the astonished Brandt said: "Then he took the money twice."
See also
- The Steiner - Winand case