/r/History is a place for discussions about history. He recruited twenty Boer men, but the group were betrayed by the wife of one. Born in Cape Colony, South Africa, on September 21, 1877, Frederick Joubert Duquesne emigrated from Hamilton, Bermuda, to the United States in 1902 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen on December 4, 1913. A native of Germany, Heinrich Carl Eilers came to the United States in 1923 and became a citizen in 1932. [16] Ronnie writes: "the fate of his country and of his family would breed in him an all-consuming hatred of England" and "would turn him into what (a biographer of Duquesne) Clement Wood called: a walking living breathing searing killing destroying torch of hate". He also had books relating to magnesium and aluminum alloys that had been sent to him by Edmund Carl Heine, one of the principal espionage agents in this group. [4] Abraham made his living as a hunter who also frequently traveled to sell skins, tusks, and horns, and he hired local natives to work the farm. Fritz Joubert Duquesne in Famous People Throughout History Capt Frederick Joubert Duquesne in The Milwaukee Journal - May 26 1956 view all Immediate Family Alice Duquesne ex-wife Helena Susanna ''Sara'' Joubert mother Abraham Duquesne father Elsbet Duquesne sister Pedro Duquesne brother About Capt Frederick Joubert Duquesne 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. She frequently met with Sebold to give him information for transmittal to Germany, and her address was used as a return address by other agents in mailing data for Germany. The following details the activities of each of the convicted spies. 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 . He fought on the side of the Boers in the Second Boer War and as a secret agent for Germany during both World Wars. Fritz Duquesne meeting with double agent William Sebolt in New York. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelt Du Quesne pronounced in English as "Doo-Cain'') (September 21, 1877 May 24, 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur . Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. He transported microphotographs and other material from the United States to South American ports, from which the information was sent to Germany via Italian airlines. After he was caught by federal agents in New York in 1917, he feigned paralysis for two years and cut the bars of his cell to make his escape, thereby avoiding deportation to England where he faced execution for the deaths of British sailors. 1st January The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. Burial. As an agent for Naval Intelligence in South America, he was assigned to disrupt commercial traffic to countries at war with Germany. Eichenlaub reported to the German Gestapo and often obtained information from his customers who were engaged in national defense production. Miss Lewis had expressed her anti-British and anti-Semitic feelings during her relationship with Duquesne. 1942 - In the largest espionage case in American history, over 30 members of a Nazi spy ring led by former South African Boer soldier and adventurer Fritz Joubert Duquesne were convicted following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "[37], He was imprisoned in Cape Town in the Castle of Good Hope, a fortification built by the Dutch in 1666. [10][16] Duquesne was captured by the English at the Battle of Colenso, but escaped in Durban. Also, another German agent, George V. Leo Waalen, reported that he had received information from Brokhoff for transmittal to Germany. [55] Niacud is the pronunciation of Duquesne reversed. Until his arrest, Lang had been employed by a company manufacturing highly confidential materials essential to the national defense of the United States. Dold was related to people holding high positions in Germany and was closely associated with other members of the espionage group who worked on ships sailing from New York Harbor. Sebold, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen on February 10, 1936, worked in industrial and aircraft plants throughout the U.S. and South America after leaving his native land in 1921. [22] His hunting skills proved useful not only in the African veld, but also later in life when he would publish articles about and give lectures on big-game hunting. Duquesne Spy Ring - Wikiwand During visits to Germany, he was seen to have worn a German army officers uniform. His sister had been killed and his mother was dying in a . Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (/djuken/ dew-KAYN; sometimes Du Quesne; 21 September 1877 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer and German soldier, big-game hunter, journalist, and spy. She lived in New York City with Hans W. Ritter, a principal in the German espionage system. After relocating to an Automat, the two men exchanged information about members of the German espionage system with whom they had been in contact. Representing himself as a student, he requested data concerning their products and manufacturing conditions. Of those indicted, 19 pleaded guilty. 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. While she was not active in obtaining information for Germany, she helped Duquesne prepare material for transmittal abroad. Upon conviction, Lang received a sentence of 18 years in prison on espionage charges and a two-year concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. At the time of his arrest, Scholz had just given Gustav Wilhelm Kaercher a list of radio call letters and frequencies. 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 . As a covert spy, it was necessary for Duquesne to manipulate people, assume new identities and cover stories. [4][21], As a youth, Fritz Duquesne became a hunter like his father. During their initial meeting, Duquesne, who was extremely concerned about the possibility of electronic surveillance devices being present in his office, gave Sebold a note stating that they should talk elsewhere. [76] Police did not believe Wood and agent Thomas J. Tunney was brought in to positively identify Craven as Duquesne, the same man he had arrested in 1917. Before fleeing to Germany to escape prosecution, Dr. Griebl had been implicated in a Nazi spy ring with Guenther Gustave Rumrich, who was tried on espionage charges in 1938. In between the battles, he was a stunningly successful conman who repeatedly got himself out of multiple legal problems. A master of disguise, Duquesne went by many aliases, fictionalized his identity and background on various occasions and worked as a con man. List of South African films - Wikipedia He was detained for a short period before being released. [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. 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. Frederick Joubert Duquesne (1877 - 1956) Frederick Joubert (Fritz) "Black Panther" Duquesne Born 21 Sep 1877 in Cape Colony Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling (s) unknown] [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 24 May 1956 at age 78 in New York City, New York, United States Profile manager: DK Clews [ send private message ] [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. Frederick Fritz Joubert Duquesne, n dans la colonie du Cap le 21 septembre 1877 et mort New York le 24 mai 1956, tait un Sud-africain naturalis Amricain en 1913, issu de la communaut afrikaner, qui fut entre autres journaliste et correspondant de guerre. English: Fritz Joubert Duquesne on safari. The letter indicated that Captain Duquesne was one who has rendered considerable service to the German cause.. After meeting a German-American industrialist in the Midwest around 1914, Duquesne became a German spy. FBI photo of Capt. He had also observed and reported defense preparations in the Canal Zone and had met with other German agents to advise them in their espionage pursuits. A composition of pictures of Fritz Joubert Duquesne, pre-1919: Date: 1919: Source: Throttled! He became a naturalized citizen in 1935. Fritz Joubert Duquesne | Technology Trends Subsequent to his conviction, Siegler was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on espionage charges and a concurrent two-year term for violation of the Registration Act. 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. Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! Espionage Wikipedia:WikiProject Espionage Template:WikiProject Espionage Espionage articles: C: This article has been rated as C-Class on the . Nineteen quickly pled guilty. He was sentenced to serve 18 years in prison on espionage charges, as well as a 2-year concurrent sentence and payment of a $2,000 fine for violation of the Registration Act. Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO, Chief of Scouts, British Army[26], After the English invaded South Africa in 1899, Duquesne returned to South Africa to join the Boer commandos as a lieutenant attached to the staff of Commandant General Piet Joubert in Pretoria. [73] He was sent to the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital. [4] In June 1910, he married Alice Wortley, an American, but their marriage ended in divorce eight years later.[4]. [12] The dossier from that time gave a summary of now Colonel Duquesne's prior history and stated that, "no information, whatsoever, concerning the whereabouts and activities of Duquesne since June 6, 1932, is possessed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [34], As an English officer, Duquesne returned to Cape Town with secret plans to sabotage English installations and to assassinate Kitchener. "[90] One German spymaster later commented that the ring's roundup delivered 'the death blow' to their espionage efforts in the United States. [16] Duquesne also discovered his sister was raped and murdered by the English, and his mother was interned in the Nylstroom concentration camp operated as part of Kitchener's policy. He requested authority to steal the diplomatic bag of a British officer traveling aboard his ship and to dispose of the officer by pushing him overboard. After a failed attempt to escape prison in Cape Town, he was sent to prison in Bermuda, but he escaped to the United States and became an American citizen. As a result of his guilty plea to charges of violating the Registration Act, Kaercher received a $2,000 fine and a prison sentence of 22 months. [4][82][83], Once the FBI discovered through Sebold that Duquesne was again in New York operating as a German spy, director J. Edgar Hoover provided a background briefing to President Franklin Roosevelt. He was naturalized as a citizen in 1929 and was employed as a truck driver. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (/duken/; 21 September 1877 - 24 May 1956), sometimes Du Quesne, was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British (due to their treatment of Boer women and children) caused him to volunte. Fritz_Joubert_Duquesne : definition of Fritz_Joubert_Duquesne and [84] But monitoring Duquesne's activities proved to be difficult. "[62] The authenticity of several of these claims has been challenged by modern biographers, and the German records that would confirm or deny at least parts of these accounts are now missing and presumed destroyed during the war. He sent several letters to Germany through a mail drop in Sweden outlining details of national defense materials. [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? He sometimes purchased insurance on merchandise he shipped on the vessels he sabotaged and then filed claims for damages. Bante claimed that as a member of the Gestapo his function was to create discontent among union workers, stating that every strike would assist Germany. [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. George Schuh, a native of Germany, came to the United States in 1923. During this period, he marched through Nylstroom, discovering his parents' farm was destroyed under Lord Kitchener's scorched earth policy. [72] His last known lecture was in 1954 at the Adventurers' Club of New York, titled "My Life in and out of Prison". Another Boer Relief Committee member, Captain W. E. Meyer, arranged for his transportation off the island. [60] The insurance companies were reluctant to pay and began their own investigations which would go on for another year. She enrolled in this school and was sent to the United States in 1939. Entering a guilty plea to violation of the Registration Act, Bante was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and was fined $1,000. On April 1, 1941, Fehse was sentenced on a plea of guilty to serve one year and one day in prison for violation of the Registration Act. [34] The other twenty members of his team were quickly executed, but as a plea-bargain, his sentence was reduced to life in prison. [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. Clement Wood had recently published a biography of Duquesne, The Man Who Killed Kitchener, so the police asked Wood to identify the man in custody. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (/duken/; 21 September 1877 - 24 May 1956), sometimes Du Quesne, was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British (due to their treatment of Boer women and children) caused hi. Upon a guilty plea, Miss Lewis was sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison for violation of the Registration Act. He arranged meetings, directed members activities, correlated information that had been developed, and arranged for its transmittal to Germany, chiefly through Sebold. Upon conviction, Brokhoff was sentenced to serve a five-year prison term for violation of the espionage statutes and to serve a two-year concurrent sentence for violation of the Registration Act. [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. His team was given up by an informant and all were captured and sentenced to death. He also had brought $2,900 from German contacts abroad to pay Lilly Stein, Duquesne, and Roeder for their services and to buy a bomb sight. 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. Stigler sought to recruit amateur radio operators in the United States as channels of communication to German radio stations. FBI Case Records on the Duquesne Spy Ring, FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Department of Justice. File:Duquesne on safari.jpg - Wikimedia Commons 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. About: Fritz Joubert Duquesne - DBpedia Association Through Eichenlaub, dynamite was delivered to Sebold from Bante. Heine sent letters from Detroit, Michigan, to Lilly Stein, one of the German spies Sebold was instructed to contact. : The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters, Small, Maynard & company. He gathered human intelligence, led spy rings and carried out sabotage missions as a covert field asset in South Africa, Great Britain, Central and South America, and the United States. 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. 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. 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. In July 1940, Zenzinger received a pencil for preparing invisible messages for Germany in the mail from Siegler. As a courier, Strunck carried messages between German agents in the United States and Europe. Stabler was convicted and sentenced to serve five years in prison for espionage and a two-year concurrent term under the Registration Act. [76] He was interrogated and beaten by the police and charged with murder on the high seas. [73] On 25 May 1919, after nearly two years of feigning paralysis and just days before his extradition, he disguised himself as a woman and escaped by cutting the bars of his cell and climbing over the barrier walls to freedom. Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (1877-1956) was a South African Boer who led an astonishing life on both sides of the law. It all began when a lone German-American refused to give in to Nazi aggression and hatred. Fritz Joubert Duquesne was an inveterate anti-British spy who apparently used a number of IEDs to destroy British vessels sailing from South America in WW2. To my friendly enemy, Major Frederick Russell Burnham, the greatest scout of the world, whose eyes were that of an Empire. From 1935 until her arrest, she was a secretary for a law firm representing the German Consulate in New York City. "[70] The British authorities were also looking at Duquesne as the agent responsible for "murder on the high seas, arson, faking Admiralty documents and conspiring against the Crown", and the American authorities agreed that they would extradite Duquesne to Britain, if the British sent him back afterward to serve his sentence for fraud.[71][72].
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