Julius Mader (7 October 1928 – 17 May 2000), also known as Thomas Bergner, was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist, and writer.
[1] His family was forcibly relocated in 1945,[1] ending up in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany, a region in the process of becoming the German Democratic Republic.
He studied government and law, economics and journalism at the Universities of Berlin and Jena, the Institute of Internal Trade in Leipzig, and the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
In 1965, he earned his doctorate from the "Walter Ulbricht" Law Academy ("Deutsche Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissenschaft "Walter Ulbricht"") at Potsdam-Babelsberg for "The secret services of the German Federal Republic and their subversive activities against the German Democratic Republic".
In 1970, he received his habilitation (higher academic qualification) from the Humboldt University of Berlin, for work co-authored with Albert Charisius on the development, system and operation of the German secret service.