Heinz Herre

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Heinz Danko Herre (born January 23, 1909 in Sankt Avold , Alsace-Lorraine ; † October 5, 1988 in Krün ), service names Dessau and Herdahl, was a German officer, most recently in the rank of Brigadier General of the Reserve of the Bundeswehr and a member of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

Promotions

Herre was born in 1909 as the son of an officer. After graduation in 1927, he joined the 13th (Prussian) cavalry regiment in Hanover. In 1928/29 he attended the infantry school of the Reichswehr in Dresden. In 1933 he passed an interpreting exam for Russian. In 1934 he became platoon leader and in 1935 company commander in the engineer battalion in Hann. Münden , later the mountain pioneer battalion in Mittenwald.

In 1936 he was assigned to the Olympic Games in Berlin as an honorary officer ; he himself previously completed various preparatory courses in pentathlon . From 1937 to 1939 he took part in the general staff course at the War Academy in Berlin. In August 1939 he became third general staff officer (Ic) in the command staff Wodrig and in October 1939 of the XXVI. Army corps in Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium. In June 1940 he became Ib of the 3rd Mountain Division . From July to October 1940 he was Ib at the Deputy General Command XVIII. Army Corps in Salzburg. From 1940 to 1942 he served as a general staff officer a. a. at a mountain division. In 1943 he came as a group leader to the Foreign Army East Department under Reinhard Gehlen . In this position he was also Chief of Staff of the Volunteer Associations at the Army High Command in 1943/44 . He was also briefly deployed in Italy until the end of 1944 as chief of staff at the Russian Liberation Army , led by Andrei Andreevich Vlasov and fighting alongside the German Wehrmacht .

After the end of the Second World War , Herre became a prisoner of war and in the spring of 1946 joined Reinhard Gehlen's group in Fort Hunt in Virginia . In July 1946 the group returned to Germany and was integrated as an evaluation group into Operation Rusty, led by Hermann Baun , an intelligence organization financed by the US Army with German personnel. After Gehlen took over leadership in February 1947, the name Organization Gehlen established itself . Baun, who felt a deep dislike for Herre, pushed him to the Northern European Headquarters (NEZ) in Stadtoldendorf ( Lower Saxony ). Since Baun Herre did not provide any personnel or material support, NEZ remained a one-man company. Under Gehlen returned Herre in the management operations and took over the newly created in the spring of 1947 Unit Press analysis. She moved into Kransberg Castle in the Taunus . After the responsibility for the organization had passed from the US Army to the CIA, Herre became deputy of August Winter , one of Gehlen's three personal collaborators, who formed a kind of link between procurement and evaluation. Winter, however, had no powers to speak of and his post was essentially representative. Winter and Herre were very antipathetic towards each other. At the beginning of 1952, Herre temporarily took over the area of ​​operational reporting procurement for the Soviet Union (camouflage code "50 / R"). At the beginning of 1953 he became head of the evaluation ("70 F") and remained so when the organization was integrated into the federal administration as the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) on April 1, 1956 .

In the summer of 1958, Herre from Lothar Metz took over responsibility for all departments, special facilities and external organizations that were responsible for obtaining information about the Eastern Bloc (with the exception of political procurement) as well as counter-espionage as "Leadership Representative 70 A". Herre's successor as head of the evaluation was Erich Dethleffsen . Herre completed his career in 1970 as a BND resident in Washington, DC .

Herre was u. a. Member of the German Alpine Association , married to a von Wedel born and father of four children. Herre's (service) diary records served as a source for the processing of the history of the Gehlen Organization and are available online in the digital archive of the College of William & Mary .

Award

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr (1955–1999). The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals , part 6b). Volume 2, 1: Gaedcke - Hoff , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 978-3-7648-2369-6 , pp. 321-322.
  • Heinz Danko Herre (1909-1988). Reinhard Gehlen and the “other me” . In: Susanne Meinl , Bodo Hechelhammer : Secret object Pullach. from the NS model estate to the headquarters of the BND . Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-792-2 , pp. 172-174.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 558 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 58 u. v. m .
  3. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 391 f .
  4. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 57 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Danko Herre's diary
personal data
SURNAME Herre, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herre, Heinz Danko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Avold
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1988
Place of death Krün