!!!Redl, Alfred

b. Lvív, Ukraine (then Lemberg), March 14, 1864, 
d. Vienna, May 25, 1913 (suicide), officer (colonel in the General 
Staff Corps). General Staff training, 1907 deputy chief of the 
registration office in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of War 
(intelligence service). From 1912 chief of General Staff of the 8th 
Imperial and Royal Corps in Prague. Was found to have been a Russian 
spy for at least 10 years and was forced to commit suicide. Afterwards 
an attempt was made to hush up the affair, but E. E.  Kisch brought 
the facts to public attention.

!Literature
G. Markus, Der Fall Redl, 1984; OeBL.



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