Heinz Danko

Heinz Danko Herre, born 23-01-1909, was a career officer and a German Geheimdienstler, who last reached the German Federal Armed Forces rank Colonels in the General Staff. As a soldier Herre was primarily intelligence-wise active. Starting from 1939 the captain at that time was enemy situation editor in the General Staff of the XXVI. Army corps. Starting from 1943 it in the department foreigner of armies east was active under major general pure hard Gehlen (see Gehlen), starting from January 1944 as a Chief of Staff of the federations. At the end of 1944 he became Chief of Staff by the Russian General Andrei Andrejewitsch Wlassow, he was hanged by the Russians, age 44, on 02-08-1946, in Moscow.

 Wlassow led the Russian deserters at the side of the German armed forces of the fighting Russian release army. After end of the  World War II it followed pure hard Gehlen, which developed straight on behalf of American crew authorities one with German personnel occupied secret service. Herre brought it in the organization Gehlen up to the leader to the analysis department and kept this post also with the over name of the organization Gehlen by the Federal Information Service up to the year 1957. Subsequently, he became a department manager Spionage against the sozialisischen states. It closed its career in German secret services in the year 1970 as a resident of the Federal Information Service in Washington DC off. Heinz Herr lived in Krün, Bavaria, where he at the age of 79, died on 05-10-1988, Herre is buried with his wife Christa, who died old age 91, on 28-09-2002, on the cemetery of Krün next to his collogue Generals, Max Fremerey (see Fremerey) and Graf Georg von Rittberg (see Rittberg).