20260912 BND-Agent saß in Globke's Verteidigung

12.09.2026 BND-Agent saß in Globke's Verteidigung

"Keep Globke clean"

Oops, nobody knows Hans Josef Maria Globke anymore — the man who served as head of the Federal Chancellery under Adenauer from 1953 to 1963 and, as such, was in charge of the intelligence services. He had a Nazi past; as early as the Weimar Republic, Globke played a leading role in an anti-Jewish amendment to the law on names and was a co-author and commentator on the Nuremberg Race Laws and the ministerial official responsible for the 1938 Name Change Ordinance, which made Jews recognizable and stigmatized them as such.

How could he then become head of the Federal Chancellery?

He was able to do so in the Federal Republic of West Germany, even though the above facts about him were known. But in 1961, the high-ranking Nazi Eichmann unexpectedly went on trial in Israel, and Adenauer feared that Globke might also become an issue during the trial ...

Matthias Monroy writes in the nd: “The Federal Intelligence Service (BND), which is responsible for foreign intelligence, infiltrated one of its own agents into the defense team of the accused Nazi criminal during the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961.”

Lawyer Dieter Wechtenbruch, a BND agent with the identification number V-7461 and the code name “Laqueur,” became an assistant to Eichmann’s defense attorney, Robert Servatius. His task during this operation, codenamed “Gleidreieck,” was to keep Globke out of the trial.

After his death sentence was handed down, Eichmann wanted to name names in his closing statement. However, Eichmann’s attorney Servatius successfully prevented this, as Wechtenbruch reported back to Pullach. While in custody, Eichmann had written a detailed statement of justification in which he explicitly named Globke as a co-responsible party. This statement, however, was never published.

CDU politicians and journalists close to them had portrayed Globke as an opponent of the Nazis. And Globke had the journalist Reinhard Strecker — who was collecting documents on Globke’s Nazi past — placed under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

And now we are back at the point where democratic checks on the intelligence services and the separation of the police and intelligence services — decided upon by the Allies — are being dismantled by a CDU government. Fight the first signs!

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