Richard Sorge
1895 to 1944
8 documented presences
8 places
Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Richard Sorge across 8 places, from 1920 to 1942. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Richard Gustavovich Sorge (4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Richard Sorge was documented, and when
1920 to 1922period
Solingenattested
“From 1920 to 1922, Sorge lived in Solingen, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1923year
Ilmenauattested
“In the summer of 1923, he took part in the Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche ("First Marxist Work Week") Conference in Ilmenau.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1929year
United Kingdomattested
“In 1929, Sorge went to the United Kingdom to study the labour movement there, the status of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the country's political and economic conditions.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
October 1934month
Berlinattested
“In October 1934, Ott and Sorge made an extended visit to the puppet "Empire of Manchukuo", which was actually a Japanese colony, and Sorge, who knew the Far East far better than Ott, wrote the report describing Manchukuo that Ott submitt…”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1937year
Soviet Unionattested
“Claiming too many pressing responsibilities, he disobeyed Josef Stalin's orders to return to the Soviet Union in 1937 during the Great Purge, as he realised the risk of arrest because of his German citizenship.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
13 May 1938exact date
Tokyoattested
“Sorge noted about his influence in the German embassy: "They would come to me and say, 'we have found out such and such a thing, have you heard about it and what do you think'?" On 13 May 1938, while he rode his motorcycle in Tokyo, a ve…”
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7 December 1941exact date
Hawaiiattested
“At the book's climax, Sorge agreed to work for the American Office of Strategic Services, in exchange for being settled in Hawaii, and he was in the process of learning that Japan is planning on bombing Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, b…”
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September 1942month
NKVDattested
“In September 1942, Sorge's wife, Katya Maximova, was arrested by the NKVD on the charges that she was a "German spy" since she was married to the German citizen Sorge (the fact that Sorge was a GRU agent did not matter to the NKVD), and…”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
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Places Richard Sorge is documented in
Berlin1 presence · 1934Hawaii1 presence · 1941Soviet Union1 presence · 1937Tokyo1 presence · 1938United Kingdom1 presence · 1929
Ilmenau1 presence · 1923
NKVD1 presence · 1942
Solingen1 presence · 1920
Other places tied to Richard Sorge in the record
In each of these, a source puts Richard Sorge and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Richard Sorge was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1898year
Nazi Germanymentioned
“His father moved back to Germany with his family in 1898, after his lucrative contract expired.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1915year
Second Battle of Ypresmentioned
“He initially served on the Western Front and was wounded at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
August 1919month
University of Hamburgmentioned
“pol.) from Hamburg in August 1919.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1922year
Frankfurtmentioned
“In 1922, he was relocated to Frankfurt, where he gathered intelligence about the business community.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1924year
Frankfurtmentioned
“In 1924, he was made responsible for the security of a Soviet delegation attending the KPD's congress in Frankfurt.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
November 1929month
Nazi Germanymentioned
“In November 1929, Sorge was sent to Germany.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1931 to 1964period
Japanmentioned
“The Kremlin gave much greater attention to signals intelligence in evaluating threats from Japan from 1931 to 1941 than it did to the intelligence that was gathered by the Sorge spy ring, but since Soviet intelligence did not like to men…”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
May 1933month
Japanmentioned
“In May 1933, the GRU decided to have Sorge organize an intelligence network in Japan.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
August 1933month
United Statesmentioned
“He went to Japan via the United States, passing through New York in August 1933.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
August 1933month
New York (state)mentioned
“He went to Japan via the United States, passing through New York in August 1933.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
6 September 1933exact date
1935 to 1936period
Moscowmentioned
“In 1935, Sorge passed on to Moscow a planning document provided to him by Ozaki, which strongly suggested that Japan was not planning on attacking the Soviet Union in 1936.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
26 February 1936exact date
Tokyomentioned
“On 26 February 1936, an attempted military coup took place in Tokyo.”
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1938year
Kwantung Armymentioned
“In 1938, Sorge reported to Moscow that the Battle of Lake Khasan had been caused by overzealous officers in the Kwantung Army and that there were no plans in Tokyo for a general war against the Soviet Union.”
source: Wikipedia: Richard Sorge
1938year
April 1938month
April 1938month
March 1939month
1 September 1939exact date
1941year
1941year
30 May 1941exact date
7 November 1944exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Tomiichi MurayamaTokyo · 1938Paul BlobelSolingen · 1920Yanka KupalaNKVD · 1942Yakov ZeldovichNKVD · 1942William Stuart-HoustonNKVD · 1942Mikhail BakhtinSoviet Union · 1937Marina TsvetaevaSoviet Union · 1937Chiang Ching-kuoSoviet Union · 1937E. H. CarrSoviet Union · 1937Margarete Buber-NeumannSoviet Union · 1937Stefan ZweigGermany · 1934Erich FrommGermany · 1934
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