Armin Eck (officer)

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Armin Eck (born September 5, 1914 in Beilngries ; † September 13, 1984 in Oberstaufen ) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr , most recently in the rank of Brigadier General , and headed the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) from 1967 to 1972 .

Life

Eck was born the son of a forester . He joined the Wehrmacht in April 1933 with the 19th Infantry Regiment in Munich . During World War II , he served as an adjutant in a regiment, battalion commander and general staff officer of the 9th Panzer Division and the 31st Infantry Division . At the end of the war he was fourth general staff officer (ID) and clerk for the national defense of the Netherlands in the Army High Command  25.

After the end of the war, Eck worked for the Allies in the internment area of East Friesland , where he handled the release or, for officers, the further imprisonment of prisoners of war . From March 1947 he worked as a bricklayer in a construction business in Northeim .

From March 1948 to 1956 Eck worked for the Gehlen organization , his first assignment in the intelligence service as a group leader of Group 40 / Z “Operational Security”, before he was taken over as a lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr in February 1956 . He went through troop and staff assignments, including as a consultant in the command staff of the Army (Department II, Military Intelligence ), before he became Deputy Head of the Office for Security of the Bundeswehr (ASBw), the headquarters of the MAD, in April 1964. A little later, Eck moved to Bad Ems as a commander at the Bundeswehr Intelligence School (SNBw), which carried out the MAD training. In 1967 he succeeded Heinrich Seeliger as the third head of office of the ASBw. At the end of March 1972, Eck retired at the age of 58 after having headed the MAD for five years.

Eck was considered cool and aloof and, due to his eight years in management positions in the MAD, after Gerhard Wessel as his “second father”.

He was questioned as a witness as part of the " Strauss / Scharnagl wiretapping affair".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut R. Hammerich: "Always on the enemy!": The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, ISBN 978-3-647-36392-9 , pp. 207 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  2. ^ Ronny Heidenreich, Daniela Münkel, Elke Stadelmann-Wenz: Secret Service War in Germany: The Confrontation of GDR State Security and Organization Gehlen 1953 . Ch. Links Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86284-362-6 , pp. 33 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  3. ↑ BUNDESWEHR MAD: 007. Spisazer - DER SPIEGEL 19/1967. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Wehrkunde: Organ of the Society for Wehrkunde . Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1972, p. 213 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich: "Always at the enemy!": The Military Shield Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, ISBN 978-3-647-36392-9 , pp. 208 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  6. ^ Germany (West) Bundestag: Negotiations of the German Bundestag: Stenographic reports . 1980, p. 99 u. a . ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Eck, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, head of the military counterintelligence service
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Beilngries
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1984
Place of death Oberstaufen