The OSS also recruited and ran one of the war's most important spies, the German diplomat Fritz Kolbe.

At the OSS office in Bern, Switzerland, Allen Dulles had made working contact with Fritz Kolbe, " a disaffected member of the Nazi foreign office in Berlin ".

" Fritz Kolbe transmitted to the OSS some 1600 documents and cables, traveling between Berlin and Bern, " slipping through a half dozen Gestapo checkpoints while carrying his death-by-torture warrant in a shabby briefcase ", Helms wrote.

Already the OSS office had been discussing whether to attempt parachuting new agents into Germany ( in addition to in place agents, like Fritz Kolbe ).

Fritz Kolbe, a German diplomat and courier based in Berlin who had become an American spy after a meeting in Bern, Switzerland with the OSS, also provided information about ' Cicero '.

* Fritz Kolbe

Fritz Kolbe ( September 25, 1900 – February 16, 1971 ) was a German diplomat who became America's most important spy against the Nazis in World War II.

Fritz Kolbe was born in Berlin.

Fritz Kolbe died of cancer in Bern in 1971.

The grave has two names: Fritz Kolbe ( 1900-1971 ) and Maria Fritsch ( 1901-2000 ).

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* Pseudonym for Fritz Kolbe ( 1900 – 1971 ), German spy for the U. S. during World War II

Examples of spies with ideological motivations include Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs ( communist ), Fritz Kolbe and Juan Pujol ( anti-Nazi ), Nathan Hale ( pro-American independence ), Harriet Tubman ( anti-slavery ), Ana Montes ( pro-Cuban )

* 1900 – Fritz Wiessner, American mountaineer ( d. 1988 )

* November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor ( b. 1900 )

Fritz Wolfgang London ( March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954 ) was a German theoretical physicist.

* Fritz Walter ( 1900 – 1981 ), German football executive

The double horn was conceived by Edmund Gumpert, third horn in Meiningen, and refined and patented around 1900 by Fritz Kruspe.

* Fritz Gottlob: Formenlehre der Norddeutschen Backsteingotik: Ein Beitrag zur Neogotik um 1900.

* 1929 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler ( d. 1997 )

* 1941 – Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast ( b. 1875 )

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

* 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director ( d. 1976 )

* 1910 – Fritz Leiber, American writer ( d. 1992 )

* 1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1934 )

* 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer ( b. 1909 )

* 1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-born Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1869 )

* 1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-born American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1974 )

* 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1876 – Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player ( d. 1933 )

* 1874 – Fritz Hart, English-born composer ( d. 1949 )

* 1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer ( d. 1962 )

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

* Fritz Wittmann ( 1994 – 1998 )

* 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history — the Duquesne Spy Ring.

* 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1986 )

* 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate ( b. 1868 )

* 1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist ( b. 1875 )

* 1875 – Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast ( d. 1941 )

* 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager

* 1910 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer ( d. 1954 )