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Paul Rosbaud (November 18, 1896–January 28, 1963), was a chemist and scientific adviser for Springer Verlag in Germany and during World War II a secret agent for British Intelligence MI6, code named "Griffin". Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency. He was born in Graz, Austria, and died in London, UK. Graz (etymologically from Slovene: Gradec IPA /gradeʦ/ "little castle" with a population of around 290000 as of 2008 (of which 252852 have principal Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Rosbaud had wide contacts within Germany and provided MI6 with vital information regarding weapon systems.

Rosbaud served in the Austrian army during World War I from 1915 to 1918. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All After the war ended his unit was taken as prisoner of war by British forces; this experience ended up giving him a liking of the British. He studied chemistry at Darmstadt Technische Hochschule beginning in 1920. The Darmstadt University of Technology, whose official name (also its official English name) is "Technische Universität Darmstadt" (abbreviated TU Darmstadt) in He continued his studies at Kaiser Wilhelm Institut in Berlin and took his doctoral thesis at Berlin-Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule. The Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft is a German entity formally known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. The Technical University of Berlin ( Berlin Institute of Technology, TUB, TU Berlin, German Technische Universität Berlin) is located He then started working at the scientific periodical Metallwirtschaft, but quit after Adolf Hitler came to power, as the owner was a Nazi. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German

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In 1938 he had his Jewish wife Hilde and their only daughter Angela sent to the UK to keep them safe from Nazi harassment. Rosbaud was also invited to stay in the UK, but he decided to keep working in Germany to undermine the Nazi regime. In addition to his own, Rosbaud helped a number of other families flee the Nazis, including that of the well known Jewish physicist Lise Meitner. Lise Meitner (7 or 17 November 1878 &ndash 27 October 1968 was an Austrian born later Swedish physicist who studied Radioactivity and He was assisted in his work saving Jews by the fact that he was run as a British agent by Frank Foley, the MI6 station chief in Berlin. Major Francis Edward Foley CMG (November 1884 Highbridge Somerset – May 8 1958, Stourbridge) was a British secret service

Through his work at Springer Verlag, Rosbaud knew most of the scientific community in Germany, and posing as a Nazi he could supply the allied forces with vital intelligence without any suspecting him of being a spy. Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ is a worldwide Publishing company based in Germany, which publishes textbooks academic

One of his first scoops as an agent was to publish Otto Hahn's work on fission in the German physics magazine Naturwissenschaften in January 1939. Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 &ndash 28 July 1968 was a German Chemist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering Nuclear fission Die Naturwissenschaften ( The Natural Sciences) is a weekly publication of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Rosbaud seemed to be well aware of the possible use of this in a nuclear bomb. His immediate publishing thus helped alarm the international physics community and can be connected to the letter Albert Einstein wrote to warn president Roosevelt of a German nuclear bomb. Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical

Among the reports he supplied to the British was that Germany produced rockets (V2) and that the German project for a nuclear bomb was not successful. See also Vergeltungswaffe The V-2 rocket ( Vergeltungswaffe 2 was the first Ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve Rosbaud has also been connected to the "Oslo report", a detailed list of new German weapons systems, but this seems to be the work of Hans Ferdinand Maier, technical director at Siemens. The Oslo Report was one of the most spectacular leaks in the history of military intelligence

Many of his reports were smuggled out of Germany by couriers working for the Norwegian intelligence organisation XU. XU was a clandestine intelligence organisation working on behalf of Allied powers in occupied Norway during World War II. Norwegians that were studying at technical schools in Germany, such as Sverre Bergh, linked up with Rosbaud and transported the intelligence to occupied Norway, and from there it was sent to neutral Sweden. Sverre Bergh (1920-2006 was a Norwegian Spy in Nazi Germany during World War II. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. One daring route involved a flight from Berlin to Oslo, with airport mechanics at each end helping to hide microfilms on the plane. (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924 is the Capital and largest city of Norway.

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