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Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (16 December 1847 – 21 May 1923) was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
May 17, 2024 · Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (born 1847, Austria—died May 21, 1923, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, Eng.) was a French army officer, a major figure in the Dreyfus case. Esterhazy had posed as a count and served in the Austrian army during the 1866 war with Prussia.
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Marie Charles Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, né le 16 décembre 1847 à Paris et mort le 21 mai 1923 à Harpenden en Angleterre, est un officier français. Commandant au 74 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne, sa trahison a été à l'origine de l'affaire Dreyfus.
Aug 4, 2023 · The handwriting was traced to Maj. Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, another staff officer who had served in intelligence from 1877 to 1880. In a scenario common in the world of espionage, Esterhazy had fallen deeply in debt and sought a way out by selling secrets to the Germans.
Charles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was an officer in the French Army from 1870 to 1898. He gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused and convicted in 1894.
Evidence came to light in 1896 – primarily through an investigation instigated by Lt Col George Picquart, the new head of counter espionage – identifying a French army major named Ferdinand Esterhazy as the real culprit.
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Infantry Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy who, through occasional contacts with the General Staff, was exposed to classified French information, offers his services to the German Military Attaché, Lieutenant-Colonel von Schwartzkoppen, promising to pass on military secrets.
