Julius Mader, also known by his alias Thomas Bergner, was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.
Life
Mader came from a lower-middle-class family. Along with millions of other ethnic Germans, his family was forcibly relocated in 1945, 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 :de:Deutsche Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft|"Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy 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 from the Humboldt University of Berlin, for a piece of work co-authored with Albert Charisius on the development, system and operation of the imperialist 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, including translations of some books into other. In his writings, was a special feature for the print media of the GDR. For the book Who's Who in the CIA, Mader had neither a publisher's statement nor a license number. He listed himself as an editor with the address of Dr. Julius Mader, 1066 Berlin W 66, Mauerstr. 66. Two detachable cards were included in the book, one was to send him corrections and additions, the other was to send him more names of CIA agents and other intelligence officials.
Works
Allens Gangster in Aktion, Berlin 1959
Gangster in Action - Design and crimes of the U.S. Secret Service, Berlin, 1961
The gray hand - a secret settlement with the Bonn, Berlin 1960
The killer lurking. A documentary on the training and the use of military subversion and sabotage units in the United States and West Germany, Berlin 1961
The Hunt For The Scarface - A documentary on Hitler's SS intelligence chief, Otto Skorzeny, Berlin 1962
Geheimnis von Huntsville: die wahre Karriere des Raketenbarons Wernher von Braun , Berlin: Deutscher Militärverlag, 1963
Dr. sparks concern from Tokyo. A documentary on the spies with peace articles selected by Richard Sorge and Stuchlik with Gerhard Horst Pehnert, Berlin 1965
The bandit treasure. A documentary on the secret Hitler-gold weapons and treasure, Berlin 1965
No longer a secret - the secret of the German Federal Republic and its subversive activity against the GDR, Berlin 1966
Who's Who in CIA: A biographical reference work about 3000 employees of the civilian and military intelligence branches of the U.S. in 120 nations, Berlin 1968
No longer a secret: development, system and operation of the imperialist German secret service. German military Verlag, Berlin 1969th
Hitler's generals from intelligence to say: a documentary report on the composition, structure and operations of the Central Intelligence Agency OKW foreign / defense to a chronology of its operations from 1933 in 1944. Publisher of the nation, Berlin 1970
Yellow List: Where is the CIA?, Berlin 1970
Les Generaux espions d'Deposent Hitler. Un Anglais de l'est accuse, Paris 1973
The bandit treasure. a documentary report on the secret treasure of Hitler's Germany Revised and expanded edition, Berlin 1973
Instruction 37/57. Facts and background of the coup in Chile in 1973, Berlin 1974
The way to the 'red' authoritarian state? - The German Social Democracy between feudalism and bourgeois counter-revolution, casting 1977
Partisans of the mountains. Survival of an Austrian worker with Sepp Plieseis, Berlin 1978
