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Johannes "Hans" Max Clemens (February 9, 1902 – 1976) was a German functionary of respectively the SS, ''
Sicherheitsdienst ' (, ''Security Service''), full title ' (Security Service of the ''Reichsführer-SS''), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization ...
'' (SD, Security Service) was primarily the intelligence service of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Clemens was also known as the Tiger of Como while serving as a captain in the SS. Then he joined the Gehlen Organization and with
Heinz Felfe Heinz Paul Johann Felfe (March 18, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was a German spy. At various times he worked for the intelligence services of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and West Germany. It is still not clear when he started ...
, began feeding information to the Soviets. Before this work was discovered, he worked with the successor of the Gehlen Org, the ''
Bundesnachrichtendienst The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence head ...
'' (Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service, BND), the foreign intelligence agency of the modern German government, under the control of the Chancellor's Office). Clemens was part of a group of Soviet spies that were put on trial in 1963. His co-defendants were Heinz Felfe and
Erwin Tiebel Erwin Tiebel (born 10 November 1903) was a German lawyer. After the Nazis took power he joined the Leipzig chapter of the party in April 1933. During the late 1930s he began working for the security services. His involvement became progressiv ...
. Clemens and Felfe admitted to having transmitted great amounts of secret information to the Soviets, including 15,000 classified documents. All three were convicted, with Clemens receiving a 10-years sentence for treason.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clemens, Hans 1902 births 1976 deaths SS-Hauptsturmführer German people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union Double agents Military personnel from Dresden People of the Federal Intelligence Service 1963 in politics People from the Kingdom of Saxony Reich Security Main Office personnel