Werner Repenning

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Werner Repenning (* 1915 in Kiel , † January 22, 1967 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German Brigadier General in the Bundeswehr and a member of the Gehlen Organization .

Life

Repenning attended the Reform Realgymnasium in Kiel until he graduated from high school, and on April 1, 1935, he initially started as an officer in the Prussian State Police. In the same year he switched to the Air Force , where he was trained as a pilot. As a pilot in a bomber squadron in 1936 he was the lieutenant and 1939 to lieutenant promoted. He received his further military training at the General Staff School of the Air Force in Gatow . In 1944 he was promoted to major i. G. promoted. He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. Repenning remained in Allied captivity for two years .

In 1952 Repenning took part in the secret founding talks of the Federal Intelligence Service in the Chancellery as an employee of the Gehlen Organization , where he carried the service name Rainer . As a confidante of Gehlen 1955 he was also the liaison to Friedrich Beermann , the security policy advisor of the SPD, whom he u. a. informed about the planned division into a domestic and a foreign intelligence service. In 1956 he was accepted into the Bundeswehr as a lieutenant colonel and was entrusted by Defense Minister Theodor Blank with the management of the attaché group in the Bundeswehr command staff. Franz Josef Strauss appointed Repenning as his personal advisor in May 1959 .

In the case of rearmament , the reason for the procurement of radios and pilot helmets from Socapex ponsot for the Noratlas was published in the news magazine Der Spiegel , in contrast to the conspiratorial approach customary at the time . In an interview with Spiegel on January 29, 1969, armaments representative Roger Hentges stated that he had distributed large amounts of cash to Werner Repenning and Otto Praun, among others , which, according to Hentges, was bribes. Repenning is said to have been given "about 2.3 million German marks ".

On October 1, 1962 Repenning was promoted from colonel to brigadier general and moved to the NATO headquarters in Paris as the military representative of the Federal Republic .

Several allegations of bribery , also in connection with his contact with Ernest F. Hauser , whom he had met through working for Strauss and in whose network of relationships he was included, are said to have hit him so badly that he suffered a stroke at the end of 1966 . Repenning died of a stroke on the night of January 21-22, 1967. According to another Spiegel report, Repenning died of complications from an inflammation of the heart muscle. After his death, the public prosecutor closed the investigation against him. Repenning was buried in the central cemetery in Bad Godesberg .

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  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. 560 .
  2. ↑ FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE. Central Intelligence Agency , September 12, 1952, archived from the original July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Stefanie Waske: More liaison than control: The control of the BND by parliament and government 1955–1978 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16347-5 , p. 29.
  4. ↑ Merit in the semi-darkness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1968 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Werner Repenning . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1962, pp. 86 ( online ).
  6. ↑ The General's Sorrow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1967 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Merit in the semi-darkness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1968, p. 38 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Repenning, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1967
Place of death bad Godesberg