- Wife Sibylle is a cousin of Peer Steinbrück.
- Father-in-law of Torsten Sasse.
- East German Ministry for State Security cover name was "Richard König".
- East German Ministry for State Security file reference HVA (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) XI/244/66.
- Was from 1966 onward employed as undercover informant of the East German Security Police (IM des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit aka 'MfS') with the cover name 'Richard König'. He covertly provided information and spied on his colleagues, superiors, peers and friends from 1966 until 1989.
- Until his death in Oct 2023 he received a comfortable and regularly monthly pension from the the same state he had once sworn to fight against.
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