Julius Mader (7 October 1928 – 17 May 2000), also known as Thomas Bergner, was a German journalist, writer,
Early life
Mader came from a lower-middle-class family.
[ His family was forcibly relocated in 1945,]
Mader attended business college, followed by an apprenticeship as a draper. He studied government and law, economics and journalism at the Universities of Berlin and Jena, the Institute of Internal Trade in Leipzig, and the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Career
In 1955, he completed a Master of Business Travelers. A member of the SED, from 1958-59 he was deputy managing editor at a magazine. From 1960, he began working as a freelance writer. From 1962, he served as officer on special assignment with the code name "Faingold" for the Stasi. In 1965, he earned his doctorate from the "Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy at Potsdam-Babelsberg for "The secret services of the German Federal Republic and their subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic". In 1970, he received his habilitation from the Humboldt University of Berlin, for work co-authored with Albert Charisius on the development, system and operation of the West Germany secret service.
Mader's military and political writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War. His books have a circulation of several million, including translations.[Boris Chertok, Rockets and People, Volume 3 : Hot Days of the Cold War, NASA History Series, 2009, (p.278, footnote 62)] He was the author of the book Who's Who in the CIA, which has been identified as an "active measure" of disinformation.
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Paul Maddrell, "What we have discovered about the Cold War is what we already knew: Julius Mader and the Western secret services during the Cold War", Cold War History, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 235–258,
