Paul Thümmel (15 January 1902 – 20 April 1945), aka Agent A-54, was a German double agent who spied for Czechoslovakia during World War II. He was a high-ranking member of the German military intelligence organisation, the ''
Abwehr'', and was also a highly decorated member of the
National Socialist German Workers Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...
.
From 1937, Thümmel passed intelligence first to
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
and later to the
Czechoslovak government-in-exile
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile, sometimes styled officially as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia ( cz, Prozatímní vláda Československa, sk, Dočasná vláda Československa), was an informal title conferred upon the Czechos ...
in London via the Czech underground resistance.
He was killed by the
SS at the
Small Fortress of the
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination ca ...
in April 1945.
[I.C.B Dear, ed, ''The Oxford Companion to World War II'' (1995) p 1108]
References
Double agents
Czechoslovak spies
1902 births
1945 deaths
Spies who died in Nazi concentration camps
Abwehr personnel of World War II
World War II spies for Germany
People convicted of spying for Czechoslovakia
People from Mittelsachsen
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