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Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
Richard Sorge was a German press correspondent who headed a successful Soviet espionage ring in Tokyo during World War II. After service in the German Army during World War I, he earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, joining the Communist Party of Germany in
The story of Richard Sorge, one of the great espionage masterminds of the Soviet Intelligence Service, began on October 4, 1895, in Adjukent, a small village near Baku in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan. Sorge was the youngest of nine children in a German-Russian household.
Mar 22, 2019 · An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent, by Owen Matthews, Bloomsbury, RRP£25, 448 pages Victor Sebestyen is the author of ‘Lenin the Dictator’ Join our online book group on ...
Apr 20, 2019 · And of them all, Richard Sorge may well have been the best. He was a “flawed individual, but an impeccable spy—brave, brilliant, and relentless”, writes Owen Matthews in his rollicking and ...
Richard Sorge (1940) Richard Sorge (russisch Рихард Густавович Зорге, Richard Gustawowitsch Sorge; * 22. September jul. / 4. Oktober 1895 greg. in Sabuntschi bei Baku, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 7. November 1944 in Toshima, Tokio) war ein deutschstämmiger russischer Kommunist, Staatswissenschaftler und für den sowjetischen Militärgeheimdienst tätiger Agent und Spion.
Nov 28, 2019 · The skills of the three top Soviet spies of the 20th century – Richard Sorge, Leopold Trepper and Ignace Poretsky/Reiss (better known as Ludwik) – remain unmatched. Sorge has always attracted particular attention. Ian Fleming called him the ‘most formidable spy in history’; other admirers included John le Carré, Tom Clancy and General MacArthur.
Apr 6, 2024 · Richard Sorge was a Soviet agent, arguably one of history’s most successful, who worked his craft from the 1930s until the first years of World War II. Apr 6, 2024 • By Matt Whittaker, BA History & Asian Studies ...
Jul 30, 2010 · R ichard Sorge had just returned to Tokyo on June 22, 1941, when he heard the report, being shouted by newsboys in the street, that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union. Sorge, a prominent German journalist, notorious womanizer, and heavy drinker, had earlier been driving through the countryside with his latest paramour, a beautiful German pianist.
SORGE, RICHARD (1895 – 1944), Soviet spy.. Richard Sorge was born to a German family in Baku. His father was a petroleum engineer and his grandfather, Friedrich Sorge (1828 – 1906), a colleague of Marx. In 1910 the family returned to Germany, where Sorge later studied in Berlin and Hamburg Universities. Drafted into the German army, he was a participant in World War I, and the combat ...
