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A 55-year-old German is said to have disclosed sensitive information about the Bundestag building to the Russian secret service.
The Federal Prosecutor's office brought charges against Jens F. on suspicion of being a secret service agent.
The man from the Berlin area acted "on his own initiative" and was not recruited by the Russian secret service, said a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office.
The 55-year-old's company had repeatedly been commissioned to check the safety of electrical devices, the prosecution announced on Thursday in Karlsruhe.
The man had access to files with the floor plans of the properties of the Bundestag.
Between the end of July and the beginning of September 2017 at the latest, he decided to pass the data on to the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
Accordingly, he sent a CD-ROM that he burned himself to an employee in the Russian embassy in Berlin, who works full-time for military intelligence.
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The 55-year-old was not in custody because there was no urgent suspicion and there was no risk of escape, said the spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office.
Now the State Security Senate of the Berlin Superior Court must decide on the basis of the evidence presented whether to allow the indictment.
The man's motive is still unclear, at least he had no previous contacts with Russia.
The spokesman did not want to say what the alleged spy was exposed to.