Stefan Wolle

[3] Wolle received his doctorate in 1984 for work on Vladimir the Great of Kievan Rus', consciously selected as a non-ideological topic,[2] and reworked for publication as a book in 1993.

[2] During the second half of the 1980s he had been establishing contacts with underground opposition groups,[1] and after the wall was breached in November 1989 he was able to become a Round Table expert witness on Stasi files.

During a period of rapid change, the occupation in January 1990 by concerned citizens (taking their cue from similar actions in Erfurt, Leipzig and Rostock) of the building housing the archives, thwarted a more extensive destruction of the evidence.

Stefan Wolle served as a member of what became known as the Stasi Records Agency ("Bundesbeauftragter für die Stasi-Unterlagen" / BStU / "Gauck commission") between March 1990 and February 1991.

The dismissal came at the behest of Wolfgang Schäuble, at that time Interior Minister in the German government,[3] and followed a television interview in which Wolle had disclosed that the name of the last East German prime minister, Lothar de Maizière, had appeared in Stasi files listing informal Stasi collaborators.

[7] In July 2024 it was confirmed that Wolle would serve as Executive Producer on upcoming Cold War thriller Whispers of Freedom.