Walter von Gerich was a Finnish civil servant and later an agent in German pay during World War I.
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He was arrested in Kristiania 16 June 1917, but after diplomatic pressure from Germany he was set free and escorted by the police to Germany 27 June 1917, due to his role as courier for the German Emperor.
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He posed in 1917 as a German baron and diplomatic courier Walter von Rautenfels and was arrested for espionage in Norway and planning of sabotage in favour of the German Empire during World War I, when several suitcases with explosives were discovered, covered as diplomatic luggage.
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He claimed that after fleeing to Berlin in 1916 he was allowed to change his name to von Rautenfels, a name that previously had occurred in his family.
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