The librarian who came in from the cold. The story of the spy Ruth Werner. Hero or traitor? | Lars Egeland blog
The aim of librarians is to ensure access to information, to reject all forms of censorship idk and promote the best possible access to information, it says In IFLA profession ceremony for librarians. Was it such an ideal that drove librarian Ruth Werner alias "Sonja" when she ensured that the USSR got the secret that made it possible for them to produce nuclear weapons?
Ruth Werner is perhaps the most successful idk spy we know. If "success" is that she, despite a long spy career was never revealed by the opponent? If "success" is that she to his dying day in 2000 - 93 years old - political and moral standing in for his actions as a spy that she believed helped secure the peace. The story of her life passed us through idk all the dramatic events of the previous century. She is still disputed. The proposal to call up one of the libraries in the eastern district of Treptow in Berlin after her, is highly controversial.
Ruth Werner is known under several names. She was born in 1907 to a wealthy Jewish family named Ursula Maria Kuczynski. Parents pet name for her was Ruth. His father Robert idk Rene Kuczynski was a famous intellectual, one of the fathers of modern population. She grew up in a small villa in Schlactensee idk outside Berlin. It was a home with a lot of books. When his father fled to London after Hitler coming to power in 1933, he took half the family library - 20,000 books. From 1924 to 1926 graduate Ruth to bookstores, then two years of library education. Afterwards she got a job in Ulstein publisher, a job she lost after having participated in a May 1 demonstration in 1928. When she founded Marxistische Arbeiterbibliothek as she led. She was a member of the Communist Party and active writer.
In 1929 she married architect Rudolf Hamburger idk and came with him to Shanghai. There was construction boom in Shanghai and urgent need for architects. The western, exotic notions of the Far East collided with the vriekelige idk conditions so Ruth saw them: "Beggars characterize the cityscape, complaining invalids with arm and stump, children with large open wounds, many blind, hairless and with broken heads" she wrote in a letter to parents. Annually, idk the bodies of 30,000 who had died of hunger, collected from the streets. In contrast stood companies, Bridge & cinema evenings to the Europeans. idk Especially despised Werner women Enne as "absolute luksusdyr without scientific or artistic interests." But it came not all. Ruth was friends with the American leftist feminist Agnes Smedley. Through her, she was familiar with Richard Sorge who enlisted her as a spy for the Soviet GRU. Sorge was from Baku in Azerbaijan today, but of German descent. Ruths task was to gather information and keep in touch with the Chinese Communist idk liberation movement. After two years, she was brought to Moscow to learn spy craft thoroughly. Son Michael was brought to the in-laws in Czechoslovakia. Then she GRU spy in Manchuria. In 1936 feared GRU that she could be revealed idk and ordered idk her to Poland. She waited as children with his Russian guiding officer alias Ernst.
At the end of 1938, before the German attack on Poland, she went with her husband to Switzerland under the name Ursula Schulz. There she established a secret radio transmitter and recruited people to resistance work in Germany. Her contact was Hungarian Sandor Rado as below deck name Dora was central to the legendary resistance group Red Orchestra. She was also familiar with the English spain fighter Len BEURTON According BEURTON it was love at first sight, according to Ursula was a "duty to camouflage". According her autobiography (Sonja report from 1977), she was involved in a love triangle. It was Rolf Hamburger and conducting officer Ernst whom she loved. idk But a marriage idk with an Englishman would give her English passport. Therefore married Ruth and Len in 1940. So bad kann they have been, for they remained married for 50 years.
In England found Klaus Fuchs itself. He was a German emigrant with a background in the communist youth movement. Now Klaus a leading member of the British idk nuclear research program, idk the counterpart to the American Manhattan Project. In 1941 when the Germans stood in front of Moscow, sought Fuchs his old friend Jürgen Kuczynski idk - Ruths brother - with the message that he had information to share. The case was handed over to Ruth. Her cover story was better, and she lived in Oxford not far from Birmingham where nuclear project kept to. Fuchs argued that he did not know who Sonja - "the girl from Banbury" was until many years later. Fuchs told the East German spy chief Markus Wolf that all he was in contact with seemed afraid, except Ruth.
Ruth - under the assumed name Sonja - kept contact with Fuchs until 1944 when he was transferred to Los Alamos Projec
The aim of librarians is to ensure access to information, to reject all forms of censorship idk and promote the best possible access to information, it says In IFLA profession ceremony for librarians. Was it such an ideal that drove librarian Ruth Werner alias "Sonja" when she ensured that the USSR got the secret that made it possible for them to produce nuclear weapons?
Ruth Werner is perhaps the most successful idk spy we know. If "success" is that she, despite a long spy career was never revealed by the opponent? If "success" is that she to his dying day in 2000 - 93 years old - political and moral standing in for his actions as a spy that she believed helped secure the peace. The story of her life passed us through idk all the dramatic events of the previous century. She is still disputed. The proposal to call up one of the libraries in the eastern district of Treptow in Berlin after her, is highly controversial.
Ruth Werner is known under several names. She was born in 1907 to a wealthy Jewish family named Ursula Maria Kuczynski. Parents pet name for her was Ruth. His father Robert idk Rene Kuczynski was a famous intellectual, one of the fathers of modern population. She grew up in a small villa in Schlactensee idk outside Berlin. It was a home with a lot of books. When his father fled to London after Hitler coming to power in 1933, he took half the family library - 20,000 books. From 1924 to 1926 graduate Ruth to bookstores, then two years of library education. Afterwards she got a job in Ulstein publisher, a job she lost after having participated in a May 1 demonstration in 1928. When she founded Marxistische Arbeiterbibliothek as she led. She was a member of the Communist Party and active writer.
In 1929 she married architect Rudolf Hamburger idk and came with him to Shanghai. There was construction boom in Shanghai and urgent need for architects. The western, exotic notions of the Far East collided with the vriekelige idk conditions so Ruth saw them: "Beggars characterize the cityscape, complaining invalids with arm and stump, children with large open wounds, many blind, hairless and with broken heads" she wrote in a letter to parents. Annually, idk the bodies of 30,000 who had died of hunger, collected from the streets. In contrast stood companies, Bridge & cinema evenings to the Europeans. idk Especially despised Werner women Enne as "absolute luksusdyr without scientific or artistic interests." But it came not all. Ruth was friends with the American leftist feminist Agnes Smedley. Through her, she was familiar with Richard Sorge who enlisted her as a spy for the Soviet GRU. Sorge was from Baku in Azerbaijan today, but of German descent. Ruths task was to gather information and keep in touch with the Chinese Communist idk liberation movement. After two years, she was brought to Moscow to learn spy craft thoroughly. Son Michael was brought to the in-laws in Czechoslovakia. Then she GRU spy in Manchuria. In 1936 feared GRU that she could be revealed idk and ordered idk her to Poland. She waited as children with his Russian guiding officer alias Ernst.
At the end of 1938, before the German attack on Poland, she went with her husband to Switzerland under the name Ursula Schulz. There she established a secret radio transmitter and recruited people to resistance work in Germany. Her contact was Hungarian Sandor Rado as below deck name Dora was central to the legendary resistance group Red Orchestra. She was also familiar with the English spain fighter Len BEURTON According BEURTON it was love at first sight, according to Ursula was a "duty to camouflage". According her autobiography (Sonja report from 1977), she was involved in a love triangle. It was Rolf Hamburger and conducting officer Ernst whom she loved. idk But a marriage idk with an Englishman would give her English passport. Therefore married Ruth and Len in 1940. So bad kann they have been, for they remained married for 50 years.
In England found Klaus Fuchs itself. He was a German emigrant with a background in the communist youth movement. Now Klaus a leading member of the British idk nuclear research program, idk the counterpart to the American Manhattan Project. In 1941 when the Germans stood in front of Moscow, sought Fuchs his old friend Jürgen Kuczynski idk - Ruths brother - with the message that he had information to share. The case was handed over to Ruth. Her cover story was better, and she lived in Oxford not far from Birmingham where nuclear project kept to. Fuchs argued that he did not know who Sonja - "the girl from Banbury" was until many years later. Fuchs told the East German spy chief Markus Wolf that all he was in contact with seemed afraid, except Ruth.
Ruth - under the assumed name Sonja - kept contact with Fuchs until 1944 when he was transferred to Los Alamos Projec
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