Julius Cebulla

Julius Johannes "Jonny" Cebulla (30 June 1917 – 24 March 1999) was an East German policeman and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Cebulla spent over thirty years, including three as department head, as an employee of the Trafficking Department of the Central Committee, a clandestine department mainly responsible for secret courier services and money transfers to the SED's West German affiliates. His career was aided by his good relationship with the Stasi, the intelligence service and secret police.

Cebulla resigned during the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, only a few days ahead of the Central Committee's collective resignation.

Life and career Early career Cebulla was born in 1917 in the Upper Silesian village of Brinnitz to a working-class family. After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter.

After being drafted into compulsory labor service the in Reich Labor Service in 1937, Cebulla was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1938, where he served as a soldier throughout World War II. He then spent time as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union until 1949, during which he attended an anti-fascist school. especially the SED's West German affiliates, the German Communist Party and the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin, which received 70 and 15 million DM per year respectively. The department additionally financed the Deutscher Freiheitssender 904, a clandestine radio station of the banned Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In this role, he worked closely with the secret foreign currencies procurement office "KoKo" under Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski.

Cebulla went into retirement and died on 24 March 1999.