14 Facts About Matthias Warnig

Matthias Warnig was born on 26 July 1955 and is a former East German Stasi officer and a Russia-based businessman who has worked closely with Vladimir Putin.

Matthias Warnig joined the Stasi, the secret police of communist East Germany, in 1974.

Matthias Warnig is managing director of Nord Stream AG, a company that is majority-owned by the Russian government and that is responsible for the construction and operation of the Nord Stream undersea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

Matthias Warnig was born on 26 July 1955 in Altdobern, Lower Lusatia, East Germany.

In 1974 Matthias Warnig started his career at the Stasi, the secret police of communist East Germany, and entered its foreign intelligence on April 1,1975.

Matthias Warnig allegedly worked as the Deputy Chief of the Science and Technology Sector, which is often referred to as industrial espionage or economic espionage under Horst Vogel in A XIII of the HVA, headed the work group Department 5 and attempted to obtain information from the West about materials technology, chemistry, electronics, physics and nuclear power.

Matthias Warnig has denied this by saying that they met for the first time in 1991, when Putin was the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office.

Matthias Warnig had apparently spied on Dresdner Bank AG in West Germany for two years in the late 1980s before he began to work in the bank.

From 1986 onward Matthias Warnig was a resident of Dusseldorf living in an apartment in the district of Bilk as a trade representative of the GDR.

Matthias Warnig became chairman of the Board of Directors of Dresdner Bank ZAO, Dresdner Bank Russian's subsidiary.

From 2012, Matthias Warnig led the supervisory board of the Russian aluminum company Rusal but was forced to resign in 2018, when the first Trump administration imposed sanctions on Rusal.

Matthias Warnig is managing director of Nord Stream AG, which is majority-owned by the Russian government and responsible for the construction and operation of the Nord Stream undersea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

Matthias Warnig married on his 24th birthday, soon afterwards his son Stefan and his daughter Claudia were born.

Matthias Warnig is married to the Russian Elena Semjonova, whom he met in Saint Petersburg at the end of the 1990s.