Brigitte Heinrich

Brigitte Heinrich (born on June 29th, 1941 with Francfort-sur-le-Main, deceased on December 29th, 1987) was a German Journaliste , political woman of the Verts and informatrice for the Stasi.

It begins its political career and its activity of militant as from 1966. During some time, it is also spokesperson of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund , the German socialist Union of students (SDS). After its diploma of economy, she travels and goes to the the Middle East in 1970. In the Years 1970, it teaches the international relations with the university of Francfort-sur-le-main and chairs the assembly of the students. As of this time, it maintains the contacts with various terrorist groups.

November 26th, 1974, it is stopped during a raid of great scale, indicated under the name of code “Winterreise”, which proceeds in fifteen towns of Germany after the execution of the president of the Supreme court of Berlin, Günter von Drenkmann, by members of the “Mouvement of June 2nd” (Bewegung 2. Juni), little time after the death of Holger Meins, member of the Red Army Fraction. All challenged, Brigitte Heinrich included/understood, are released at the end of a few weeks. It will be stopped several months, then released later again for health reasons before the business is classified. After its release, it is re-registered at the university of Frankfurt and provides during several years the functions of president of the assembly of the students. In 1980, she is condemned to a one year and nine months custodial sentence, which she purges starting from the end 1983 in a mode of semi-freedom.

As from 1980, Heinrich works as journalist for the Tageszeitung of Berlin. In 1982, it is recruited by her companion Klaus Croissant, lawyer and agent of the Stasi. Under the pseudonym of Happy Schäfer, she works then for the East-German intelligence services as nonofficial collaborator, assigned to the principal section XXII (devoted to terrorism). One knew only after his death that Klaus Growing gave him its orders and its mail transmitted to him.

Elected appointed with the the European Parliament under the label of the Greens in 1984, she there carries on her activity until her death, in 1987, for the benefit of Stasi, and delivers to the secret services GDR information on the Parliament, her party and the drafting of her newspaper.

At the time of its funerals, on January 6th, 1988 in the large hall of the principal cemetery of Frankfurt, it had right during several hours to homages on behalf of organizations and of groups of left coming from a multitude from country.

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