Günter Guillaume

Biography

In 1950, Guillaume becomes writer with the editions V olk und Welt in East Berlin. Of 1950 with 1956, it is made by Stasi, which engaged it to prepare it with its future tasks of espionage in FRG. In 1951, he marries the secretary Christel Boom, agent of Stasi. Of their marriage, they have a son, Pierre Guillaume, who will change later his name into Pierre Boom. Günter Guillaume enters to SED in 1952. In 1956, on order of Stasi, Guillaume is established in FRG, with Francfort-sur-le-Main. It deals with the Boom amndt Dom , a coffee store.

In 1957, Guillaume enters to SPD and his wife becomes secretary in the offices of SPD in Hesse of the South. Starting from 1964, Guillaume works officially with the SPD, initially as director of the sub-section of the SPD with Francfort-sur-le-Main, then starting from 1968 of the faction of the SPD at the municipal council of Francfort-sur-le-Main. The same year, he is also elected at the municipal council. In 1969, Guillaume directs the electoral campaign of the Minister for transport Georg Leber in the district of Francfort-sur-le-Main, and its talent of organizer brings a very great number of first voices to the minister. This last rewards it by making it name, after the elections, to advise with the service of the economic policy, financial and social of the federal Chancellerie; post where it acquires the confidence of its superiors.

In 1972, it obtains a new promotion: its heat with the work and its talents of organizer make it name to advise personal federal Chancelier Willy Brandt. At this station, it has access to the secret documents and the conversations in the intimate circle which surrounds the chancellor. Moreover, Guillaume is with the current of the private life - agitated enough - of Willy Brandt.

Although as of 1973, the security services of FRG have a presentiment of the activity of espionage of the Guillaume husbands, almost a year passes before they are definitively uncovered. The April 24th 1974, Guillaume is stopped with Bonn under the inculpation of Espionnage. He acknowledges being an agent of GDR, officer of the Volksarmee . It is the beginning of the Guillaume business, which causes a resounding crisis in the interior policy of FRG, crisis which ends in the resignation of Willy Brandt on May 7th, 1974.

June 6th, 1974, the the Bundestag, at the request of the opposition, decides constitution of a parliamentary investigating committee charged to clear up the business and the manifest lack of monitoring on behalf of the public services of safety. In December 1975, Guillaume is condemned to thirteen years of detention for treason and Christel Guillaume at eight years.

In 1981, within the framework of an exchange of agents, the Guillaume couple returns to GDR, where he is celebrated officially like “peacemakers”. The two husbands receive the Ordre of Karl Marx; Günter Guillaume is promoted colonel and his wife Christel lieutenant-colonel in Stasi. From now on, Günter Guillaume is a distinguished guest with the training courses where one forms the agents of Stasi.

Because of a connection that Günter began the very same day its return of GDR with a nurse of Stasi, Elke Bröhl, Christel Guillaume obtain the divorce on December 16th, 1981. In 1986, Günter Guillaume marries Elke Bröhl which is approximately 15 years old less than him and of which it takes officially the name, that it keeps until its death. In the years 1986 and 1988, it publishes its memories Die Aussage . April 10th, 1995, Günter Guillaume dies in Berlin of a metastatic Cancer of the kidneys .

In 1975, Pierre, the son of the Guillaume couple born in 1957, emigrates in GDR after the arrest of his parents, where it follows a training of journalist photographer. In 1988, he asks for a permission of travel and benefits from it to take refuge with its family in FRG. He then takes the name of young girl of his mother (“Boom”) because Stasi does not want to let it leave under the name of Guillaume. In 2004, Pierre Boom publishes his memories under the title DER fremde Vater . March 20th, 2004 dies of a cardiac disorder the ex-wife of Günter Guillaume, become again Christel Boom.

Espionage in the international relations

In 1990 an emission of radio Soviet in Moscow holds the following reasoning (summarized):

“the KGB is harmful in the USSR!! For example, in Germany, there was the chancellor Willy Brandt who, by his Ostpolitik, tried to improve the relations of Germany with the USSR. Eh well the KGB put a spy to him, Gunther Guillaume, and that cost the post of chancellor Willy Brandt. And finally that harmed the international relations of the USSR. When one has a friend that is not made put a spy in the legs to him. The KGB is harmful in the USSR”.

This having been known as on the waves of the USSR, one year before the dissolution of the aforesaid the USSR.

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