Walter Gramsch

Walter Gramsch (born 15 January 1897, date of death unknown) worked in a high position for the State Railways in Nazi Germany, and was involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler. Gramsch later became a high ranking transportation official in the Communist East German government (The GDR). However he was unhappy with the GDR and thus became a spy against it. He used his position to feed information to the West German Gehlen Organization.

In particular, he spied on Ernst Wollweber, a Communist sabotage expert. After the war Wollweber had become a high official in the East Germany Directorate-General of Shipping, the same area as Gramsch. Gramsch was thus in a good position to report on his activities. This resulted in, among other things, the upset of several of Wollweber's attempts to smuggle products past the Western embargo into East Germany.