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German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer
Julius Mader
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Born
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1928-10-07
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7 October 1928
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Died
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(2000-05-17)
(aged 71)
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Occupation(s)
| Writer, Journalist & Lawyer
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Political party
| SED
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Julius Mader
(7 October 1928 ? 17 May 2000), also known by his alias
Thomas Bergner
, was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.
Life
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Mader came from a lower-middle-class family.
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Along with millions of other ethnic Germans, his family was
forcibly relocated
in 1945,
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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 received his doctorate from the
"Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy (
"Deutsche Akademie fur Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft "Walter Ulbricht""
)
at
Potsdam-Babelsberg
for a dissertation on "The secret services of the German Federal Republic and their subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic". In 1970, he received his
habilitation (higher academic qualification)
from the
Humboldt University of Berlin
, for a piece of work co-authored with
Albert Charisius
on the development, system and operation of the
German
secret service.
Mader's military and political writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War. His books have a circulation of several million
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citation needed
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, including translations of some books into other languages.
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He was the author of the book
Who's Who in the CIA
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