He returned to the United States five months later and joined the army in January 1930, serving briefly in New York City at the general dispensary on Whitehall Street and the surgeon’s office on Governors Island.įive months later he went absent without leave (AWOL) but surrendered to the military in August 1930. Young Guenther elected to affirm his American citizenship in April 1929 when he applied for and received a U.S. He later lived with his parents and sister in Italy and Russia and was educated between 19 in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Guenther was two years old when his father was transferred to Bremen, Germany a year later, the family moved to Budapest, Hungary. Guenther was born in June 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, to Alfonso Rumrich, secretary to the imperial Austrian consulate general, and his wife, Jolan. His name: Guenther Gustave Maria Rumrich. He was a US Army deserter when he was arrested on February 14, 1938, and charged with spying for Germany. Chapter One from “ The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence” by Raymond J.
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