14 Facts About Walter Nicolai

General Walter Nicolai was the first senior IC officer in the Imperial German Army.

Walter Nicolai studied from 1901 to 1904 at the War Academy in Berlin.

Walter Nicolai was a German nationalist and a monarchist, but otherwise considered to be apolitical.

In 1906, Walter Nicolai began his career in Abteilung IIIb and took command over the East Prussian news station in Konigsberg.

Walter Nicolai built up the news station in Konigsberg to a major centre for espionage against the Russian Empire.

Walter Nicolai led the German secret service between 1913 and 1919 and directed Abteilung IIIb intensively during the First World War.

In May 1916, IIIb chief Walter Nicolai had her asked to come to Cologne.

Walter Nicolai allegedly decided to terminate her employment by covertly exposing her to the French.

In 1915, Walter Nicolai, assigned her as the chief of the Kriegsnachrichtenstelle Antwerpen.

Walter Nicolai saw himself as having a relentless will to win and as being a military educator, a supervisor and an initiator of patriotic self-discipline.

Walter Nicolai's officers took part in the promotional work for war bonds, and he helped to found the pro-war and militarist German Fatherland Party.

Walter Nicolai was contacted and summoned to Turkey by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1925, helped founding of National Security Service in 1926 and lectured Turkish officers on intelligence.

Walter Nicolai died in custody on 4 May 1947 in the hospital of Moscow's Butyrka Prison.

Walter Nicolai's body was cremated and buried at the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery in a mass grave.