Maos deutscher Topagent – Wie China die Bundesrepublik eroberte (German Edition)

Anyone wishing to understand the influence China exerts on the German economy must be familiar with the name Gerhard Ludwig Flatow. He was a wealthy steel executive and a communist, an adventurer and a lobbyist; he spoke fluent Chinese and, in the 1950s and 1960s, became the Chinese’s most important agent in Germany. Yet he managed to remain completely unknown – until the business journalist and China expert Bernd Ziesemer pieced the puzzle together and discovered that a Maoist and an industrialist were one and the same person.
After years of research, analysis of intelligence and personal documents, and numerous interviews, Ziesemer presents here the spectacular story of a unique figure, which also reflects an entire era of German-Chinese relations right up to the present day.