Werner Mauss
Werner Mauss (born 11 February 1940) is a German former private investigator and civilian employee for police authorities and intelligence services. The name Mauss became known to the general public in association with several political conflicts and alleged scandals. The scandals included alleged conspiracy with terrorist organizations such as the ELN. Activities His activities as an informant earned him contacts to police authorities including the Federal Criminal Police Office (, BKA), to intelligence services (, BND) and to politics. In the 1990s his contacts extended into the German Chancellery. There the direct report for Mauss was the coordinator for the intelligence services of the Kohl government, then Minister of State Bernd Schmidbauer. Beginnings of his career At the age of twenty Mauss founded a detective agency in Essen. Besides his job as a plain private detective he received private training by police instructors as a lone fighter and investigator as well as education in criminalistics, criminal law, strategy and conspiracy. Soon Mauss no longer worked for private clients such as insurance companies; he rather started to work exclusively for security authorities, namely undercover inside the criminal milieu. In 1969 Mauss for the first time worked by order and on account