Ursula Kuczynski

Ruth Werner
Ruth Werner
Born	Ursula Maria Kuczynski; 15 May 1907; Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Died	7 July 2000 (aged 93); Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)	Spy; writer
Political party	KPD (1926); SED (1950)
Spouses	; Rudolf Hamburger (m. 1929; div. 1939) Leon Charles Beurton (m. 1940; died 1997)
Children	Maik Hamburger (1931–2020); Janina "Nina" Hamburger/Blankenfeld (1936–2012); Peter John Beurton (1943)

Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. She moved to East Germany in 1950 when Fuchs was unmasked, and published a series of books related to her espionage activities, including her bestselling autobiography, Sonjas Rapport.

Sources concerned with her espionage work in the 1930s/40s sometimes use the cover name originally suggested to her in Shanghai by her fellow intelligence operative Richard Sorge: "Sonja", "Sonja Schultz" or, after she moved to Britain, "Sonya".

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