He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before ...

Peter Max Ferdinand Sichel was born in Mainz on September 12 1922, to Eugen Sichel and his wife Franziska, née Loeb, and grew up in a five-storey mansion, surrounded by servants. “We were part ...

Peter Sichel, a fourth-generation vintner, was best known as the man who popularized Blue Nun, the easygoing, semisweet German wine that became an international success in the 1960s. At its ...

Peter M.F. Sichel’s life was the stuff of cinematic thrillers. As a young German Jew, he escaped the Nazis and emigrated to America, where he signed up with the predecessor to the CIA. After working ...

Peter Sichel sagte noch mit 99 Jahren, er kenne das Geheimnis nicht, warum er so alt geworden sei. Seine Eltern seien beide jung gestorben. Am Ende sei es ein Spiel, das niemand zu spielen wisse.

In the wine world, Sichel is most famous for having driven Blue Nun Liebfraumlich to the top of the sales tree in the 1980s: 1.3 million cases of a dozen bottles a year sold in the US, not to ...

Peter Sichel, who has died aged 102, was a German Jewish émigré to the US who oversaw postwar CIA activities in Eastern Europe and the Far East until, disillusioned, he resigned to take over his ...