Friedrich Boetzel

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Friedrich Boetzel (*  1897 ; †  June 23, 1969 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a Brigadier General in the Army of the Bundeswehr . During the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer for the secret radio reporting service in the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW). His code name there was "Bernhard".

Life

Radio monitoring stations of the Commander in Chief Southeast (1941)

Until 1939 he was, with the rank of lieutenant colonel , chief of the encryption department of the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW), which later became the encryption department (OKW / Chi). Shortly after the beginning of the war , Colonel Kettler followed him there , while Boetzel took on other tasks.

In February 1941, just a few weeks before the Greek campaign that began on April 6, 1941 , Colonel Boetzel, now with a new rank and in a new role as commanding officer of the Commander-in-Chief Southeast's communications forces, was in the Romanian capital, Bucharest . From there he headed the activities of the radio monitoring stations stationed here against Yugoslavia and Greece (picture) . After the campaign he became the commanding officer of the encryption station at the Commander in Chief Southeast based in Athens .  

Shortly before the end of the war , he continued with the rank of Colonel, in charge of the General Intelligence Service (OKH / GdNA) , which was newly created in October 1944 .

After the war he was taken over by the German armed forces. In May 1956 he took over the management of the newly established "Telecommunications Enlightenment and Key System" in Ahrweiler (renamed in 1958 to "Telecommunications Service of the Federal Armed Forces", 1964 to "Telecommunications Office of the Federal Armed Forces", 1979 to "Federal Armed Forces Office of Intelligence", 2002 in " Center for Intelligence in the Bundeswehr "), which was dissolved at the end of 2007.

literature

  • Armin Müller: Wellenkrieg - agent radio and radio reconnaissance of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968. Ch. Links Verlag 2017, ISBN 386284403X .
  • Magnus Pahl: Foreign armies East - Hitler's military enemy reconnaissance. Ch. Links Verlag 2012, ISBN 3861536943 .
  • F. P. Pickering: Notes on Field Interrogation of various German Army and Air Force Sigint Personnel 18-20 / 5. TICOM IF-5, pp. 5-6, English.
  • Erich Schmidt-Eenboom : The Bundesnachrichtendienst, the Bundeswehr and Sigint in the Cold War and After. Taylor & Francis , Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 16/1, 2001, doi: 10.1080 / 714002841 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telecommunication impulses. Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft 1969, Volumes 10-12, p. 155.
  2. ^ TICOM : Organization of the Cryptologic Agency of the Armed Forces High Command. DF-187 A, ticomarchive.com (English), p. 24, accessed on June 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Nigel West: Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence. Scarecrow Press 2007, ISBN 0810864215 , p. 201.
  4. ^ Nigel West: Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence. Scarecrow Press 2007, ISBN 0810864215 , p. 433.
  5. ↑ Jeffery T. Richelson: A Century of Spies - Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press 1997, ISBN 019511390X , p. 128.
  6. ^ Center for intelligence of the Bundeswehr closes. Article by Volker Jost in the General-Anzeiger (Bonn) on June 28, 2007, accessed on June 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Boetzel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general and intelligence officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1969
Place of death Bad Neuenahr