Leo Hepp
Leo Hepp (born August 15, 1907 in Ulm ; † October 24, 1987 there ) was a German officer . During the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht , later he was lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr .
Life
Leo Hepp was born in Ulm as the son of the veterinarian of the General Staff Leo Hepp . After attending school, he embarked on a military career.
After participating in the Western campaign , Hepp came to the Balkans at Christmas 1940. On March 2, 1941, he entered Bucharest before he was transferred to Greece as 4th General Staff Officer of the 12th Army , where he worked in Saloniki and then in Athens.
From July 1942 to May 1943 Hepp was 1st General Staff Officer of the 9th Infantry Division with the rank of lieutenant colonel . From February 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945, Colonel Hepp was the Chief of the General Staff at the Chief of Army Intelligence in the Wehrmacht High Command , Lieutenant General Albert Praun .
During the Second World War, Hepp u. a. the German Cross in Gold and the Iron Cross 1st Class.
From 1946 to 1956 Leo Hepp worked for the Gehlen organization , where he carried the service name "Höbel". In October 1948 he was head of the agent radio department . On April 1, 1956, the organization for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and Hepp became head of telecommunications intelligence in the summer of that year . The first electronic eavesdropping posts were set up under Hepp's leadership, for example in 1952 in Tutzing an eavesdropping station against the German Democratic Republic, legendary as Südlabor GmbH . His successor as head of radio reconnaissance was his former superior Albert Praun.
Hepp joined the newly founded Bundeswehr in September 1956 . From December 1959 to October 1960 he was commander of the newly established 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen . From October 1960 to September 1961 he was Deputy Inspector of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army Command in Bonn . From October 1961, Hepp commanded the II Corps in Ulm. In February 1962 he was promoted to lieutenant general.
In his command area, the " Nagold Affair " occurred in 1963, which arose around grinding shops in the training of paratroopers in the iceberg barracks in Nagold . Leo Hepp dissolved the paratrooper training company 6/9 on October 29, 1963 without consulting the Federal Ministry of Defense . In May 1967 Hepp was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with a Star .
In September 1967, Hepp handed over the II. Corps to Lieutenant General Karl Wilhelm Thilo and was retired. After his departure, he returned to the BND for two years, where he again headed Department II (technical reconnaissance) in Pullach until 1970.
Web links
- Documents on Leo Hepp at the IFZ (PDF; 3.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 Researching 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. 51, 390, 558 .
- ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Receptive to secret . In: Klaus Beyrer (Ed.): "Top secret: the world of encrypted communication"; Publication by the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication on the occasion of the exhibition “Streng Secret! The world of encrypted communication "in the Museum for Post and Communication Frankfurt am Main (October 7, 1999 to February 27, 2000), catalogs of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication 5, Umschau / Braus, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8295-6906- 8 .
- ^ A b Matthew M. Aid and Cees Wiebes: Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond: From Cold War to Globalization . Routledge, London 2001, pp. 131-132. ISBN 0-7146-5176-1 .
- ↑ Lowest gait . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1963, pp. 52 ( Online - Nov. 13, 1963 ).
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Leo Hepp (1959–1960) | Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg (1960–1963) | Josef Moll (1963–1965) | Kurt Gerber (1965–1968) | Siegfried Schulz (1968–1971) | Rudolf Reichenberger (1971–1974) | Jürgen Brandt (1974–1976) | Günter Kießling (1976–1977) | Eberhard Hackensellner (1977–1980) | Werner Lange (1980–1983) | Horst Albrecht (1983–1988) | Hannsjörn Boës (1988–1990) | Manfred Gerber (1990-1993) | Joachim Spiering (1993–1994) | Rüdiger Drews (1994–1998) | Karl-Heinz Lather (1998–2001) | Jan Oerding (2001-2004) | Manfred Engelhardt (2004–2006) | Markus Bentler (2006–2009) | Erhard Bühler (2009–2013) | Johann Langenegger (2013–2014) | Bernd Schütt (2014–2018) | Harald Gante (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hepp, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military, lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1987 |
| Place of death | Ulm |