Julius Mader
| Julius Mader | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 October 1928 , Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 17 May 2000 (aged 71) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Writer, Journalist & Lawyer |
| Political party | SED |
Julius Mader, alias Thomas Bergner, (born October 7, 1928 in the village of Radejčín, now part of Řehlovice (Groß Tschochau) in the Czech Republic, died May 17, 2000 in Berlin) was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.
Mader came from a lower-middle-class family. Along with millions of other ethnic Germans, his family was forcibly relocated in 1945, ending up in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany, a region which was in the process of becoming the German Democratic Republic.
Mader attended business college, followed by an apprenticeship as a draper. Then he began to study in the fields of government and law, economics and journalism at the Universities of Berlin and Jena, the Institute of Internal Trade in Leipzig and the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg .
In 1955, he completed a Master of Business Travelers. A member of the SED, from 1958 to 59 he was deputy managing editor at a magazine. From 1960 he began working as a freelance writer. From 1962 he served as officer on special assignment with the code name "Faingold" for the Stasi. In 1965 he was in Potsdam-Babelsberg and served his thesis "The secret of the German Federal Republic and its subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic" for his doctorate . In 1970 he lived at the Humboldt University of Berlin where he co-authored several books with Albert Charisius on the development, system and operation of the imperialist German secret service.
His military and political writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War. His books have a circulation of several million, including translations of some books into other.
In his writings, was a special feature for the print media of the GDR. For the book Who's Who in the CIA, Mader had neither a publisher's statement nor a license number. He listed himself as an editor with the address of Dr. Julius Mader, 1066 Berlin W 66, Mauerstr. 66 at. Two detachable cards were included in the book, one was to send him corrections and additions, the other was to send him more names of CIA agents and other intelligence officials.
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