Horst Wendland

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Horst Wendland (born August 17, 1912 in Berlin , † October 8, 1968 in Pullach ) was a German officer , most recently Major General and Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

Wendland was in the Wehrmacht in World War II and received as Lieutenant Colonel i. G. at the General Command of III. Panzer Corps on September 25, 1943 the German Cross in gold. From 1944 he was head of the organization department in the Army General Staff .

In 1948 Wendland became head of the Gehlen Organization and in 1952 was involved in the founding talks of the Federal Intelligence Service. Until 1955 he was responsible for personnel processing in the Blank office. In 1958, Wendland was appointed Brigadier General in the Bundeswehr , and in 1963 he was promoted to Major General. But he continued to work for the Federal Intelligence Service with responsibility for personnel and training and the administration of the budget of 100 million DM. After Hans-Heinrich Worgitzky left the company in 1967, Wendland took over the post of Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service. Wendland was also responsible for a German stay-behind organization (F-Netz).

Wendland had been suffering from depression since the end of 1966 and took his own life with a pistol in his office in Pullach on October 8, 1968. On the same day, the Flotilla Admiral Hermann Lüdke , who was suspected of spying, died from a bullet. Since there were four more deaths in the vicinity of Bonn ministries in October 1968 and seven scientists fled to the GDR, it was speculated that tightened security checks could have driven agents to suicide or to flee. A parliamentary committee of inquiry set up on November 13, 1968 only found deficits in the networking of the secret services and was unable to find any connection between the deaths.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall and Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, History and Owner Volume II , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 506
  2. ↑ “BUNDESNACHRICHTENDIENST”. Central Intelligence Agency , September 12, 1952, archived from the original July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ “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. 206 .
  4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: The partisans of NATO. Ch. Links Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-861-53840-0 , p. 119 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Secret services / Wendland: Death at noon . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1968, pp. 73-75 ( Online - Oct. 14, 1968 ).
  6. ^ Affair / Lüdke: Thing is over . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1968, pp. 33-34 ( Online - Oct. 28, 1968 ).
  7. ^ Affair / Lüdke: Three balls . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1968, p. 78-82 ( online - 21 October 1968 ).
  8. ↑ David Childs: “Obituary: Sebastian Haffner”. The Independent , November 1, 1968, accessed April 21, 2010 .
  9. ^ "West Germany: Of Suicide and Espionage". Time , January 11, 1999, accessed April 21, 2010 .
  10. ^ Secret services / reforms: friends exposed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1969, p. 102-106 ( Online - Mar. 31, 1969 ).
  11. ^ Secret services / disinformation: No. 10-1 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1969, p. 97-99 ( online - Sept. 8, 1969 ).
personal data
SURNAME Wendland, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1968
Place of death Pullach