Werner Mauss (born 11 February 1940) is a German former private investigator and civilian employee for police authorities and intelligence services.
There the direct report for Mauss was the coordinator for the intelligence services of the Kohl government, then Minister of State Bernd Schmidbauer.
In 1969 Mauss for the first time worked by order and on account of the newly established investigation unit of the Federal Criminal agency BKA.
There he was deployed – initially on behalf of the Mannesmann AG – in order to enforce the construction of a pipeline under resistance of the National Liberation Army guerrilla group (ELN) and to rescue four kidnapped managers of the company.
The Colombian court, under diplomatic pressure from the German government, had declared the arrest illegal.