Lutz Riemann (acting here as First Police Lieutenant Zimmermann) was from 1966 onward employed as undercover informant of the East German Ministry for State Security (IM des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit also known as 'MfS'), he was given a operational cover name 'Richard König' and was filed under the MfS document reference HVA XI/244/66. He spied and covertly provided information on his friends, colleagues, peers and even his own wife from 1966 to probably 1988/89.
Confronted in 2013 with evidence from the Rosenholz files exposing his clearname and his own MfS enlistment, Riemann stated that he had committed himself to his undercover work out of "deep ideological reasons" and that he "was a communist and always will be".
Riemann was never prosecuted, charged nor sentenced for his 22 year work for the German Ministry for State Security. It is not known whether Rieman ever showed remorse for the victims and the persecuted of his state security work and the moral consequences of nosing around friends, relatives and his own family.
Until his death in Oct 2023 he received a comfortable and regularly monthly pension from the the same state he had once sworn to fight against.
