Hans Clemens
- Category : 1902-births
- Type : GP
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Triple Split
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Explanation 1
Biography
German military officer known as the 'Tiger of Como' while serving as a captain in the SS Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service), the intelligence service of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Clemens was perhaps the sort of person that Victor Klemperer defines as an "animal" in his diaries; the sort of person who would reply, "Simply because you are a Jew," when asked by a victim of his brutality, "why do you hate me so much?". Later he was active in the Gehlen Organization and Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service, BND), the foreign intelligence agency of the modern German government, under the control of the Chancellor's Office, and finally he worked for the KGB, the national security agency of the USSR.
Clemens was part of a group of Soviet spies that were put on trial in 1963. His co-defendants were Heinz Felfe and Erwin Tiebel. Clemens received a 10-year sentence for treason.
He died on 9 September 1976 in Bad Kissingen.