Helmut Behrendt (officer)

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Helmut Behrendt (* 1924 ) was a German army officer , most recently a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr . From 1983 to 1984 he was the ninth head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD).

Life

Behrendt was born in 1924. In 1983 he became head of the Office for Security of the Bundeswehr (ASBw), the headquarters of the MAD. Before that, he was in command of the Bundeswehr Intelligence School (SNBw) in Bad Ems , which was then training MAD staff. He succeeded Flotilla Admiral Elmar Schmähling , the first naval officer to head the MAD, who had to go to a secretary of the SNBw after only 19 months in office because of an affair. In contrast to his successor, Hubertus Senff , who had no previous intelligence experience, Behrendt had previously worked in the MAD. The Kießling affair fell during his service . Like Senff, he wanted to make the MAD more transparent through interviews. During Behrendt's tenure, the ASBw was renamed the Office for Military Counterintelligence (MAD Office). On September 28, 1984, as part of an appeal, he handed the MAD over to his successor, Hubertus Senff, and retired because he had reached the age limit. He had previously been on leave for months. Behrendt was also his deputy, Colonel Joachim Krase , whose espionage activities for the GDR became known after his death in the early 1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn: Released. In: The time . September 9, 1983. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Affair - E. is coming . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1984, pp. 34 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 279 .
  4. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 169 .
  5. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : "Always on the enemy!" - The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) 1956–1990 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-36392-8 , pp. 447 .
  6. ↑ The MAD order can no longer be carried out . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1984, pp. 30-33 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Behrendt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general, head of the military counterintelligence service
DATE OF BIRTH 1924