Arnold Schölzel

Arnold Angelus Schölzel (born 21 October 1947) is a German editor and former defector, currently the editor-in-chief of the far-left newspaper Junge Welt.

On 13 August 1967, the anniversary of construction beginning of the Berlin Wall five years earlier, Schölzel decided to desert from the West German Army, and then defected to communist East Germany.

Schölzel was recruited by the East German government under the Socialist Unity Party (SED) as an informant for the country's domestic intelligence agency, the Stasi, receiving the code name "André Holzer".

Stefan Wolle of the Research Network on the Communist State (Forschungsverbund SED-Staat) at the Free University of Berlin described Schölzel as an informant who "...with real enthusiasm and great perfidiousness, he went behind the backs of the people with whom he was friends.

Schölzel's informant activities were the subject of a documentary film, Verraten – sechs Freunde und ein Spitzel, broadcast by ARD in 2007.