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Werner Teske, the Glossary

Werner Teske (24 April 1942 – 26 June 1981) was an East German Hauptmann (Captain) of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi).^[1]

45 relations: Abitur, Berlin, Capital punishment, Capital punishment in Germany, Copycat crime, Defection, Defense (legal), Der Spiegel, Desertion, Deutsche Mark, Die Welt, East German mark, East Germany, East Germany national football team, Espionage, Execution by shooting, Financial economics, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German reunification, Handball, Hauptmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Industrial espionage, Innsbruck, Intelligence assessment, Intelligence officer, Leipzig, Leipzig Prison, Lichtenberg (locality), Lutz Eigendorf, Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, Nazi Germany, Oberleutnant, Perverting the course of justice, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Südfriedhof (Leipzig), Semi-automatic pistol, Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Stasi, Stern (magazine), Supreme Court of East Germany, Unofficial collaborator, West Germany, 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1976 Winter Olympics.
Executed East German people
Executed people from Berlin
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Abitur

Abitur, often shortened colloquially to Abi, is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Capital punishment in Germany

Capital punishment in Germany has been abolished for all crimes, and is now explicitly prohibited by the constitution.

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Copycat crime

A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modeled after or inspired by a previous crime.

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Defection

In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state.

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Defense (legal)

In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defendant may raise a defense (or defence) in an effort to avert civil liability or criminal conviction.

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Der Spiegel

(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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The Deutsche Mark (English: German mark), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark", was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002.

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Die Welt

("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.

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East German mark

The East German mark (Mark der DDR), commonly called the eastern mark (Ostmark) in West Germany and after reunification), in East Germany only Mark, was the currency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Its ISO 4217 currency code was DDM. The currency was known officially as the Deutsche Mark from 1948 to 1964, Mark der Deutschen Notenbank from 1964 to 1967, and from 1968 to 1990 as the Mark der DDR (Mark of the GDR).

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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The East Germany national football team, recognised as Germany DR by FIFA, represented East Germany in men's international football, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany.

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Espionage

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).

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Execution by shooting

Execution by shooting is a method of capital punishment in which a person is shot to death by one or more firearms.

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Financial economics

Financial economics is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on both sides of a trade".

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The (FAZ; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949.

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German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.

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Hauptmann

Hauptmann is an officer rank in the armies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.

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Innsbruck

Innsbruck (Austro-Bavarian) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.

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Intelligence assessment

Intelligence assessment, or simply intel, is the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organisation, based on wide ranges of available overt and covert information (intelligence).

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Intelligence officer

An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organization to collect, compile or analyze information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organization.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Leipzig Prison

Leipzig Prison (Strafvollzugseinrichtung Leipzig, later Justizvollzugsanstalt Leipzig) was a prison in Leipzig, Germany.

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Lichtenberg (locality)

Lichtenberg is a quarter (Ortsteil) of Berlin in the homonymous borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg.

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Lutz Eigendorf

Lutz Eigendorf (16 July 1956 – 7 March 1983) was a German professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Main Directorate for Reconnaissance

The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung; HVA) was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi), the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1955 to 1990.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Oberleutnant

Oberleutnant is the highest lieutenant officer rank in the German-speaking armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr), the Austrian Armed Forces, and the Swiss Armed Forces.

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Perverting the course of justice

Perverting the course of justice is an offence committed when a person prevents justice from being served on themselves or on another party.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Südfriedhof (Leipzig)

Südfriedhof (South Cemetery) is, with an area of 82 hectares, the largest cemetery in Leipzig.

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Semi-automatic pistol

A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every shot fired.

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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands,; SED) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989.

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Stasi

The Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,; abbreviated as "MfS"), commonly known as the italics, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit, was the state security service and secret police of East Germany (the GDR) from 1950 to 1990.

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Stern (magazine)

Stern (German for "Star", stylized in all lowercase) is an illustrated, broadly left-liberal, weekly current affairs magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.

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Supreme Court of East Germany

The Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic (Oberstes Gericht der DDR) was the highest judicial organ of the GDR.

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Unofficial collaborator

An unofficial collaborator or IM (both from German inoffizieller Mitarbeiter), or euphemistically informal collaborator (informeller Mitarbeiter), was an informant in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) who delivered private information to the Ministry for State Security (MfS / Stasi).

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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1974 FIFA World Cup

The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July.

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1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (XII., XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 (Austro-Bavarian), were a winter multi-sport event celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from February 4 to 15, 1976.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Teske

Werner Teske, the Glossary

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Executed East German people

Executed people from Berlin

People executed by East Germany by firearm

People executed for desertion

People executed for treason against East Germany

Stasi officers convicted of crimes

References