List of German spies explained

The following is a list of people engaged in spying for Germany.

World War I

NameBasedArrested Notes
United States
United StatesNaval attaché to the German embassy in Washington
Spain
United States
Brazil
United States
Norway
United States
United States Mexico
United Kingdom
France
Switzerland
GermanyAssociated with Mata Hari
United StatesNaval attaché to the German embassy in Washington
United States
United States
Finland
Belgium
United KingdomWorked as chief censor in United Kingdom
Mexico
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United States
Persian Gulf * Persia
United States * Mexico

Interwar period

NameBasedArrested Notes
Norman Baillie-StewartUK20 March 1933A WWI veteran who spied for Germany between the wars. Sentenced to five years, he was released from prison on 20 January 1937 and moved to the Continent. He received German citizenship, and was complicit with the broadcasts of Lord Haw Haw.
Princess Stephanie von HohenloheUSAMarch 1941A European aristocrat and German sympathizer, she operated in UK before fleeing to San Francisco in 1939. She was not active in USA beyond questioning by American authorities.

Post WWII

NameBasedArrested Notes
Carola SternBerlinHead of Amnesty International, political writer and supporter of detente.
Carlos Penate
Joairam Domingo

See also