1962 Press Photo Lt. Colonel Loeffler, East German defector at news conference

Lt. Colonel Martin Herbert Loeffler, left, 37, highest ranking East German Army officer ever to escape to the West, is introduced today at news conference in Bonn, Germany by Wet German Defense Minister Press Chief Colonel Gerd Schmueckle. Colonel Loeffler, a former regimental commander of the East German Peoples Army and a graduate of the Soviet Army's crack Frunze Officer Academy, fled to West Berlin on September 8.

Photo is dated 1962.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.