Karl Wilhelm Fricke

Karl Wilhelm Fricke
Fricke in 2011
Born (1929-09-03) 3 September 1929 (age 94)
Occupation(s)Political journalist
writer
SpouseFriedelind Möhring (m. 1969)
Children2

Karl Wilhelm Fricke (born 3 September 1929) is a German political journalist and author. He has produced several of the standard works on resistance and state repression in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990). In 1955, he became one of several hundred kidnap victims[1] of the East German Ministry for State Security, captured in West Berlin and taken to the east where for nearly five years he was held in state detention.[2][3]

From 1970 till 1994, he worked for (West) Germany's national radio station where he was influential as a political commentator and as the broadcaster's editor for "East-West affairs".

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference DLFRBKWF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ More than 700 people were kidnapped in West Berlin and taken to the Communist Eastern zone of the city. See Falco Werkentin: Recht und Justiz im SED-Staat, 2nd edition, 1998, ISBN 3-89331-344-3
  3. ^ Isabell Fannrich (23 February 2015). "Von der Stasi im Westen verschleppt". A later estimate gives the number of people abducted by the Stasi from West Berlin during the 1950s as "about 400". Deutschlandfunk, Cologne. Retrieved 11 March 2015.

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