奥古斯特·亨宁被控协助外国政府。他的被捕震惊了德国政坛，而这一事件源于一桩牛排馆女继承人的绑架阴谋。
August Henning is accused of helping foreign governments. His arrest shook the German political world and had roots in a steakhouse-heiress kidnapping plot.
周二，德国联邦警察逮捕了该国前情报机构负责人，其涉嫌“叛国间谍活动”及其他间谍罪，包括试图向外国政府泄露国家机密。
The federal police in Germany arrested a former head of the nation’s intelligence services on Tuesday on suspicion of “treasonous espionage” and other spying charges, including attempting to pass state secrets to foreign governments.
联邦检察院宣布，已拘留80岁的前情报局长奥古斯特·亨宁——他曾于1998年至2005年领导德国联邦情报局（BND）——但并未说明他被控协助了哪些外国。
The federal prosecutor’s office announced it had detained the former spy chief, August Hanning, 80 — who led Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from 1998 to 2005 — but did not say which foreign countries he was accused of helping.
检方称，他们还逮捕了亨宁在该机构的一名前首席幕僚。据称，在亨宁离职后担任顾问并加入多家公司董事会的几年间，此人向他出售了2000份政府文件，其中许多属于机密文件。
The prosecutors said they had also arrested a former chief of staff to Mr. Henning at the agency, who they said sold 2,000 government documents to Mr. Henning — many of them classified — in the years after Mr. Henning left his post and worked as a consultant, joining several corporate boards.
检方表示，亨宁曾利用部分机密信息为一名外国情报官员撰写分析报告。此外，多年来他还向另一外国情报机构的一名代表提供了相关信息。
Mr. Henning, the prosecutors said, had used some of the classified information to create an analysis for a foreign intelligence officer. He also supplied a representative of a separate foreign intelligence service with information over the years, the prosecutors said.
在德国与包括中国和俄罗斯在内的竞争对手关系日益紧张之际，一名前情报局长的被捕震惊了德国政界。
The arrest of a former spy chief, at a time of increased tension between Germany and rival foreign powers like China and Russia, shook the German political establishment.
更添戏剧性的是，检方透露，此次调查的起因源于另一起备受关注的案件：一名德国牛排馆女继承人涉嫌试图从与她分居的丈夫身边带走自己的孩子。2025年9月，联邦检察院在调查该女继承人克里斯蒂娜·布洛克的过程中搜查了亨宁的办公室，并发现了促使对亨宁展开调查的材料。
Adding to the drama was the revelation, from prosecutors, that the investigation had origins in a separate, high-profile investigation into an alleged attempt by a German steakhouse heiress to kidnap her children from her estranged husband. The prosecutor’s office searched Mr. Henning’s office in September 2025 as part of its investigation into that heiress, Christina Block, and discovered material that initiated the examination of Mr. Henning.
德国新闻媒体报道称，亨宁先生近年来一直面临财务困境，其咨询业务也受到了 scrutiny。德国领先的新闻机构之一《明镜周刊》在2023年报道，由于他在2019年拉脱维亚一家银行倒闭事件中扮演的角色，他失去了大部分养老金。克里斯托弗·F·舒策在德国马格德堡参与了相关报道。
The German news media has reported that Mr. Henning has struggled financially in recent years, and his consulting business has drawn scrutiny. Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s leading news outlets, reported in 2023 that he had lost much of his pension in the fallout from his role in a failure of a Latvian bank in 2019. Christopher F. Schuetze contributed reporting from Magdeburg, Germany.
吉姆·坦克雷斯利是《纽约时报》柏林分社社长，负责报道德国、奥地利和瑞士的相关新闻。
Jim Tankersley is the Berlin bureau chief for The Times, leading coverage of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.