During a visit to Germany in 1938, Lang conferred with German military authorities and reconstructed plans of the confidential materials from memory. One of those visitors was Duquesne, a veteran spy who served as the groups leader. [44] In 1910, Burnham and Congressman Robert Broussard founded the New Food Supply Society to import useful African wildlife into the U.S. as a solution to a serious American meat shortage, and Broussard selected Duquesne as an expert. Upon conviction, Lang received a sentence of 18 years in prison on espionage charges and a two-year concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. In the early 1940s, double agent William Sebold (left) talks to Fritz Duquesne of the Duquesne spy ring in Sebold's bogus office in Manhattan. [16], During the English invasion of Pretoria, some of the gold from the central bank was sent by train to the small town of Machadodorp, then by road to the neutral harbor of Loureno Marques in Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique) to be shipped to the Netherlands for the use of President Paul Kruger and other Boer exiles fleeing the Transvaal. English: Fritz Joubert Duquesne on safari. While doing so, Sebold secretly told personnel in the American Consulate about his future role as a German agent and expressed his wish to cooperate with the FBI upon his return to America. On one occasion he infiltrated the British army, became a British officer, and led an attempt to sabotage Cape Town and to assassinate the commander-in-chief Lord Kitchener. He was then to meet with various spies, pass along instructions to them from Germany, receive messages in return, and transmit them back in code to Germany. The last time he was captured and imprisoned was in 1941 when he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring working for Nazi Germany were caught by William G. Sebold, a double agent with the FBI and spying for the Germans. FBI Case Records on the Duquesne Spy Ring, FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison, with a two-year concurrent sentence and $2,000 fine for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Renkenlater identified as Major Nickolaus Ritter of the German Secret Servicepersuaded Sebold to cooperate with the Reich because he feared reprisals against family members still living in Germany. Second, the FBI helped set up an office for Harry in Manhattan where he could receive visiting spies. A native of Germany, Josef Klein came to the United States in 1925; he did not become a citizen. Fehse was one of the directing forces in this espionage group. [55] Niacud is the pronunciation of Duquesne reversed. He evolved from a young and fiercely patriotic officer in the Anglo Boer War, where he earned the title of The Black Panther . Bante assisted Paul Fehse in obtaining information about ships bond for Britain with war materials and supplies. 23261, also known as the American Hippo Bill attempting the appropriation of $250,000 to import hippopotamus into the Louisiana bayous as food source and to control the water hyacinth then clogging Southern river systems. He sometimes purchased insurance on merchandise he shipped on the vessels he sabotaged and then filed claims for damages. In 1932, he was again captured in New York by federal agents and charged with both homicide and for being an escaped prisoner, only this time he was set free after Britain declined to pursue the wartime crimes. Items delivered were labeled 'valuable', and several 'good' and 'very good'. "Why Vote for Roosevelt? Talk:Fritz Joubert Duquesne/GA1 - Wikipedia Because of his employment on the docks, he knew almost all of the other agents in this group who were working as seamen on various ships. Jahnke had attended military school in Germany and had served in the German army as a radio operator. Born in Vienna, Austria, Lilly Stein met Hugo Sebold, the espionage instructor who had trained William Sebold (the two men were not related) in Hamburg, Germany. [61] Captain Louis Botha, son of the former prime minister of South Africa General Louis Botha, further writes that "Duquesne was a great friend of the Botha family" and that Duquesne "rose from the status of a Private in the German Army to the rank of Colonel, and received the Iron Cross during the great war. Primarily due to monetary rewards he would receive, Roeder agreed. He used a distant lighthouse for navigation until he arrived on the main island. [13][87] The first time Duquesne arrived at Sebold's office, he surprised the FBI agents by conducting an examination of the office, opening chests, looking in corners and around mirrors, and pointedly asking Sebold, "where are the mics? [91] In a 1942 memo to his superiors, Admiral Canaris of the Abwehr reported on the importance of several of his captured spies by noting their valued contributions, and he writes that Duquesne "delivered valuable reports and important technical material in the original, including U.S. gas masks, radio-controlled apparatus, leak-proof fuel tanks, television instruments, small bombs for airplanes versus airplanes, air separator, and propeller-driving mechanisms. The remaining 14 spies were brought to trial in Brooklyn, New York, on September 3, 1941; they were all found guilty by jury on December 13, 1941. Jahnke and Axel Wheeler-Hill secured the services of Josef Klein, a radio technician, in building a portable radio set for Jahnkes apartment in the Bronx. A total of 33 members of a Nazi German espionage network headed by Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne were convicted after a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Upon a guilty plea, Miss Lewis was sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison for violation of the Registration Act. To ensure safe delivery of the books to Germany in case they did not reach Eilers, Heine indicated the return address on the package as the address of Lilly Stein. What Happened In 1942 - Historical Events 1942 - EventsHistory As a result of the massive investigation, the FBIand Americaentered the war with confidence that there was no major German espionage network hidden in U.S. society. [93] In 1945, Duquesne was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, due to his failing physical and mental health. With Sebolds masterful acting, the FBI played right along with the ruse, using some deceits of its own. In 1934, Paul Fehse left Germany for the United States, where he became a citizen in 1938. Next to Theron, I believe Duquesne the greatest scout the Boers produced. ", a pamphlet by: "A Democrat Capt. [42] Within the week, Duquesne was a passenger on boat heading to Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Germany, Zenzinger came to the United States in 1940 as a naturalized citizen of the Union of South Africa. File:Duquesne on safari.jpg - Wikimedia Commons [68] To get back on stage he needed new material, so with the help of German intelligence he re-invented himself and pretended to be an allied war hero, Captain Claude Stoughton of the Western Australian Light Horse regiment, a man who claimed to have "seen more war than any man at present" and claimed to have been "bayoneted three times, gassed four times, and stuck once with a hook. "[56][68] Duquesne appeared before New York audiences dressed in uniform as Stoughton to tell them war stories, promote the sale of Liberty Bonds, and to make patriotic speeches for organizations such as the Red Cross. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (soms geskryf as Du Quesne en uitgespreek in Afrikaans as Doe-kein) (21 September 1877 - 24 Mei 1956) was 'n Suid-Afrikaanse Boeresoldaat, krygsgevangene, grootwildjagter, joernalis, oorlogskorrespondent, Anglofoob, makelaar, saboteur, spioen en avonturier wie se haat vir die . English: Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelt Du Quesne pronounced in English as "Doo-Cain'') (born Cape Colony 21 September 1877, died New York City 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred fo. [76] He was interrogated and beaten by the police and charged with murder on the high seas. [4][24] When the fighting ended, his uncle Koos, his wife, and their baby were all dead. Roeder entered a guilty plea to the charge of espionage and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. [80], In the spring of 1934, Duquesne became an intelligence officer for the Order of 76, an American pro-Nazi organization, and in January 1935 he began working for the U.S. government's Works Progress Administration. Upon conviction of violating the Registration Act, Heine received a $5,000 fine and a two-year prison sentence. A master of disguise, Duquesne went by many aliases, fictionalized his identity and background on various occasions and worked as a con man. Upon conviction, Stigler was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison on espionage charges with two concurrent years for registration violations. He included information about how guns would be brought into position for firing. Else Weustenfeld arrived in the United States from Germany in 1927 and became a citizen 10 years later. Duquesne was brought to trial and was convicted. [16] The Second Boer War ended in 1902 with the Boers signing the Treaty of Vereeniging, but with his family dead, Duquesne never returned to South Africa. "[90] One German spymaster later commented that the ring's roundup delivered 'the death blow' to their espionage efforts in the United States. He went by many aliases, fictionalized his identity and background on multiple occasions, and operated as a con man. ca. Insists Name is Craven Faces Police at Line-Up Stolidly Refusing Answers Author Vouches for Him", "Fritz Duquesne the spy who never came in from the cold", "Records of the Security Service; 1915 1918; KV 2/1953", "Myth Hunters: The Legend of Kruger's Millions", "Under $50,000 Bail As Nation's Enemy; 'Captain Duquesne' Indicted Following Alleged Insurance Fraud Bomb Explosions. Dold was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison on espionage charges and received a two-year concurrent sentence and a fine of $1,000 for violation of the Registration Act. A German native, Walischewski had been a seaman since maturity. 1900 Fritz du Quesne, a big game hunter, author, explorer and lecturer." -London Daily Mail,. The 33 German agents who formed the Duquesne spy ring were placed in key jobs in the United States . [77] Duquesne claimed it was a case of mistaken identity and that his name really was Major Craven. After leaving Germany for the United States in 1925, employed as a foreman in the Shipping Department of Harper and Brothers in New York City when he was arrested. After meeting a German-American industrialist in the Midwest around 1914, Duquesne became a German spy. [32][33], Duquesne joined the Boer forces again for the Battle of Bergendal, but his unit had to fall back to Portuguese East Africa (present-day Mozambique). His talks made decent money, his heroism earned him respect, and ladies found him alluring", and "the Black Panther was an adrenaline junkie his invented persona had such magnetism and such possibility, in fact, that he began deploying his alter-ego in a wide variety of personal appearances it is possible that Duquesne simply liked attention, the performance. He claimed that he secured that material by secretly entering the DuPont plant in Wilmington, Delaware. Upon conviction, Walischewski received a five-year prison sentence on espionage charges, as well as a two-year concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. Herman W. Lang came to the United States from Germany in 1927 and became a citizen in 1939. On the night of 25 June 1902, Duquesne slipped out of his tent, worked his way over a barbed-wire fence, swam 1.5 miles (2.4 km) past patrol . "[35] He was court-martialled as a lieutenant in the English army, sentenced to be shot along with his co-conspirators. His mission, however, was unsuccessful. [29] Duquesne was in command of one of these large shipments of gold sent by wagon; however, this gold never made it to its destination. Sebold convinced him that it would be too risky to do so. Historical Events for the Year 1942. Pretending to be Sebold, FBI agents sent more than 300 authentic-sounding messages and received another 200 messages from the Nazis. At the time of his arrest in New York City by Customs authorities in June 1940, he had in his possession 20 letters addressed to people throughout Europe. Upon conviction, Reuper was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment on espionage charges and two years concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. He served the espionage group as an organizer and contact man, and he also obtained information about the movement of ships and military defense preparations at the Panama Canal. Biography of Fritz Joubert Duquesne. He also furnished such information to Leo Waalen, who delivered the material to Sebold for transmittal. Stade had arranged for Paul Bantes contact with Sebold and had transmitted data to Germany regarding points of rendezvous for convoys carrying supplies to England. Upon conviction, Ebeling was sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges. During one such meeting, Bante advised that he was preparing a fuse bomb, and he subsequently delivered dynamite and detonation caps to Sebold. The German Intelligence Service in Lisbon, Portugal, asked Mezenen to act as a courier, transmitting information between the United States and Portugal on his regular trips on the clipper. Author: Thomas Joseph Tunney, Paul Merrick Hollister: Permission (Reusing this file) public domain: Other versions: Published on page 230 in the book: Throttled! Talk:Fritz Joubert Duquesne - Wikipedia Miss Lewis had expressed her anti-British and anti-Semitic feelings during her relationship with Duquesne. 24 May 1956 (aged 78) Roosevelt Island, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. "[67] He also sometimes took his deceptions further than seems necessary. Through Eichenlaub, dynamite was delivered to Sebold from Bante. Fritz Duquesne", 1912. Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! At the time of his arrest, Duquesne had in his possession a large file of news clippings related to the bombing of ships, as well as a letter from the Assistant German Vice Consul at Managua, Nicaragua. Potter's Field. [40] He went to the home of Anna Maria Outerbridge, a leader of a Boer Relief Committee. [59] Using the aliases George Fordam and Frederick Fredericks, he had taken out insurance policies for the cargo he shipped and he now filed claims for the "films" and "mineral samples" lost with the ships he sank off the coast of Brazil, including the British steamship Tennyson. An FBI agent conducts filmed surveillance of the undercover operation in the Duquesne spy ring case. In September 1939, a Dr. Gassner visited Sebold and interrogated him regarding military planes and equipment in the United States. He had been employed primarily as a barber aboard transoceanic ships. [89] Duquesne also described sabotage techniques he had used in earlier wars such as small bombs with slow fuses he could drop through a hole in his pants pocket, and he commented on where he might use these devices again. At the time of his arrest, Scholz had just given Gustav Wilhelm Kaercher a list of radio call letters and frequencies. [28] He gave the tottys all the oxen, except for one which he rode away. Roeder and Sebold met in public places and proceeded to spots where they could talk privately. From humble beginnings nestled in the peaceful veld of the Transvaal Province in South Africa to one of the most wanted men in the history of the FBI, Frederick Joubert Duquesne stamped his ineffaceable mark on the world. Under the guidance of FBI agents, Sebold established residence in New York City as Harry Sawyer, using a cover as a diesel engineer consultant to help him establish contacts with members of the spy ring. Fritz Duquesne was born to a Boer family of French Huguenot origin in East London, Cape Colony in 1877 and later moved with his parents, Abraham Duquesne and Minna Joubert, to Nylstroom in the South African Republic where they started a farm. He had been employed in German book stores in New York City, where he disseminated Nazi propaganda. Frederick Joubert Duquesne (1877 - 1956) - WikiTree 129 relations. On one occasion, Duquesne provided Sebold with photographs and specifications of a new type of bomb being produced in the United States. [78] After Britain declined to pursue his war crimes, noting that the statute of limitations had expired, the judge threw out the only remaining charge of escape from prison and released Duquesne. [22] In the Second Boer War, Duquesne became known as the "Black Panther", and as a spy in the 1930s he stamped "all of his communiques to Germany with the figure of a cat, back arched and fur raised in anger. Hows this for being a step ahead of the enemy? Having served on various ships sailing from New York Harbor since his arrival in the country, he was employed as a cook on the SS Argentine at the time of his arrest. Duquesne Spy Ring - Wikiwand [52] Duquesne received and delivered communiques through German embassies, and he was responsible for numerous explosions on British merchant ships. "[92], The 64-year-old Duquesne did not escape this time. Prior to this arrest, he served as an inspector for the Westinghouse Electric Company in Newark, New Jersey. By December 13, 1941just six days after Pearl Harborevery member of the group had either pled guilty or been convicted at trial, including its ringleader Fritz Duquesne. Duquesne Spy Ring | Military Wiki | Fandom Ritter employed several other successful agents across the U.S., most notably Herman Lang, who delivered to the Germans the blueprints for the Top Secret Norden bombsight, but he also made the mistake of recruiting a man who would later become a double agent, William Sebold. Fehse, who was trained for espionage work in Hamburg, Germany, claimed he headed the Marine Division of the German espionage system in the United States. A courier, Siegler brought microphotographic instructions to Sebold from German authorities on one occasion. Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Boer Avenger, German Spy - Boryanabooks Duquesne became a naturalized American citizen in December 1913. Heine sent letters from Detroit, Michigan, to Lilly Stein, one of the German spies Sebold was instructed to contact. He became known as "the man who killed Kitchener" since he claimed to have guided a German U-boat to sink HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916, although forensics of the ship do not support this claim. Duquesne, who was vehemently anti-British, submitted information dealing with national defense in America, the sailing of ships to British ports, and technology. In 1940, Weustenfeld visited Hans Ritter in Mexico, where he was serving as a paymaster for the German Intelligence Service. A Magnificent Lie: Fritz Joubert Duquesne - amazon.com On 8 February 1940, Ritter sent Sebold to New York under the alias of Harry Sawyer and instructed him to set up a shortwave radio-transmitting station to establish contact with the German shortwave station abroad. At the time of his arrest, he was engaged in designing power plants for the American Gas and Electric Company in New York City. Fritz Joubert Duquesne - Wikipedia Fritz Joubert Duquesne | Military Wiki | Fandom Duquesne provided Sebold with information for transmittal to Germany during subsequent meetings, and the meetings which occurred in Sebolds office were filmed by FBI Agents. [53] From his base in Bahia, Brazil, he planted time bombs disguised as cases of mineral samples on British ships and he was credited with sinking 22 ships;[16] among them were the Salvador and the Pembrokeshire. In February 1939, Sebold made a return trip to Germany to visit his mother. A close associate of Conradin Otto Dold, Stabler served as a courier, transmitting information between German agents in the United States and contacts abroad. "[37], He was imprisoned in Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope, a fortification built by the Dutch in 1666. He had something of a genius of the Apache for avoiding a combat except in his terms; yet he would be the last man I should choose to meet in a dark room for a finish fight armed only with knives. Waalen also secured government contracts listing specifications for materials and equipment, as well as detailed sea charts of the United States Atlantic coastline. Since Sebolds passport has been stolen shortly after his first visit from Dr. Gassner, Sebold went to the American Consulate in Cologne, Germany, to obtain a new one. Miss Weustenfeld was thoroughly acquainted with the German espionage system and delivered funds to Duquesne that she had received from Lilly Stein, her close friend. A German native, Paul Scholz came to the United States in 1926 but never attained citizenship. The remaining 14 were brought to jury trial in Federal . Field and Stream, p. 323, (August 1909). He also received a two-year concurrent sentence for violation of the Registration Act. On one occasion, he conferred with Sebold regarding Sebolds facilities for communicating with German authorities. [13] On 2 January 1942, less than a month after the U.S. was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States, the 33 members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were sentenced to serve a total of more than 300 years in prison. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (/duken/; 21 September 1877 - 24 May 1956; sometimes Du Quesne) was a South African Boer and German soldier, big-game hunter, journalist, and spy. After pleading guilty, Else Weustenfeld was sentenced to five years imprisonment on charge of espionage and two concurrent years on charge of registration violations. This restaurant was a rendezvous for many members of this spy ring, and Eichenlaub introduced several new members into the group. Ritter had been friends with Duquesne back in 1931, and the two spies reconnected in New York on 3 December 1937. After establishing his first contact with Duquesne by letter, Sebold met with him in Duquesnes office. [10][16] Duquesne was captured by the English at the Battle of Colenso, but escaped in Durban. The following details the activities of each of the convicted spies. Death. Zenzinger was arrested by FBI agents on April 16, 1941. He was one of the four people Sebold had been told to contact in the United States. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about In exchange, Duquesne agreed to divulge secret Boer codes and to translate several Boer dispatches. [61] Duquesne was awarded the Iron Cross for this act, and he appears in several pictures in German uniform wearing an Iron Cross in addition to other medals. In his book The Man Who Killed Kitchener, biographer Clement Wood states that Duquesne left for Europe in June 1916 under orders from German intelligence. When he built the radio set, Klein knew it would be used for transmitting messages to Germany. Upon arrest, he admitted sending letters to Italy for transmittal to Germany, as well as reporting the movements of British ships. It all began when a lone German-American refused to give in to Nazi aggression and hatred. On January 2, 1942, the 33 members of the Nazi spy ring headed by Duquesne were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison.
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