Kreis Koschmin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire[2]
Died
January 6, 1962 (aged 66)
West Germany
Resting place
Friedhof Hamburg-Ohlsdorf 0030 [1]
Nationality
German
Known for
Black Tom Explosion
Political party
German Party
Criminal status
Deceased
Conviction(s)
Espionage
Criminal penalty
Death; commuted to life imprisonment
Military career
Allegiance
German Empire
Service/branch
Imperial German Navy, Abwehr
Years of service
c.1912-
Rank
Lieutenant
Battles/wars
First World War
Battle of Más a Tierra
Second World War
Awards
Iron Cross (first and second class)
Lothar Witzke (May 15, 1895 – January 6, 1962) was a junior officer in the German Imperial Navy, who, after escaping from internment in neutral Chile, became a spy and saboteur on active service in the United States and Mexico during the First World War.
Arrested in 1918, Witzke was sentenced to death, but his life was saved by the Armistice of 11 November 1918. In 1923, he was pardoned and released. During the Second World War he served in the Abwehr and after the war became a German Party member of the Hamburg Parliament.[2]
LotharWitzke (May 15, 1895 – January 6, 1962) was a junior officer in the German Imperial Navy, who, after escaping from internment in neutral Chile...
activist and conspiracy theorist LotharWitzke (1895–1962), German naval officer This page lists people with the surname Witzke. If an internal link intending...
access to the pier. German intelligence operatives Kurt Jahnke and LotharWitzke were then suspected, and are still judged as responsible legally. It...
Victoriano Huerta $12 million for that purpose. The German saboteur LotharWitzke, who was based in Mexico City, claimed to be responsible for the March...
convicted of mail fraud in 1923; sentence commuted and deported in 1927 LotharWitzke – German spy and saboteur convicted in 1918; pardoned and deported in...
Suspicion settled on an identified German agent and possible saboteur, LotharWitzke, but the investigation proved inconclusive and the official verdict...
shown by the 1914 SS Ypiranga arms-shipping incident, German saboteur LotharWitzke's base in Mexico City, the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram and the German advisors...
German Admiralty from his San Francisco base. He and his assistant, LotharWitzke, were responsible for the April 1917 munitions explosion at the Mare...
the clothing of German spy LotharWitzke after he was arrested at the Mexican border in 1918. The evidence linked Witzke to significant sabotage activity...
of captured German spy LotharWitzke, who had been convicted of espionage after his capture in 1918, to life imprisonment. Witzke would later be pardoned...
Fälschermuseum in Wien Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine Anja Witzke, Donaukurier, 10 January 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2010. (in German) Home...
the Corfu incident, over British protests. German intelligence agent LotharWitzke, who had been arrested in 1918 in the United States, was pardoned of...
(1986). All About Lightning. New York: Dover. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-486-25237-7. Witzke, Megan; Rumbach, Paul; Go, David B; Sankaran, R Mohan (November 7, 2012)...
Global Information
German Empire
Imperial German Navy, Abwehr