Friedrich Boetzel Explained

Friedrich Boetzel (1897 – 23 June 1969, in Bad Neuenahr) was a Brigadier general of the army of the Bundeswehr.[1] During World War II Boetzel was an intelligence officer who was Director of Operations of the Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1943. His cover name there was Bernhard

Life

From 1934 to 1939, Oberst Fritz Boetzel, was the officer responsible for the German Defense Ministry's signals intelligence agency, during the important interwar period, when the service was being enlarged and professionalised,[2]

In 1939, he was posted to Army Group Southeast (German: Heeresgruppe Südost) to take up the office position of Chief of Intelligence Evaluation in Athens, Greece.[3] In 1944, following the reorganisation of the Wehrmacht signals intelligence capability, Fritz Boetzel, now General Fritz Boetzel, who was promoted by Albert Praun, created 12 Communications Reconnaissance Battalions (KONA regiment) in eight regiments, with each regiment assigned to a particular Army Group.[4] From October 1944 he was posted to direct the office of the General der Nachrichtenaufklärung.

Fritz Boetzel was considered to be one of the sources for the Lucy spy ring.[2] Boetzel knew Hans Oster and Wilhelm Canaris and had fit the anti-nazi personality of Rudolf Roessler contacts, the man who had run the spy ring.[2] [5]

Post War

After the war, Boetzel was subordinated to the Bundeswehr. In May 1956 he was given the leadership of the newly founded "Service for Telecommunications Reconnaissance and Key Affairs" in Ahrweiler. This was later renamed "Telecommunications Service of the Bundeswehr" in 1958, then in 1964 to the "Office for Telecommunications of the Bundeswehr", later again in 1979 to the "Office for Intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces". Bundeswehr" and most recently in 2002 in the "Centre for Intelligence of the Bundeswehr"). It dissolved at the end of 2007.[6]

Literature

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Volker . Jost . Zentrum für Nachrichtenwesen der Bundeswehr schließt . 13 June 2019 . General-Anzeiger . Bonner Zeitungsdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt H. Neusser GmbH . 28 June 2007.
  2. Book: Nigel West. Historical Dictionary of World War II Intelligence. 1 July 2017. 12 November 2007. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-6421-4. 201.
  3. Book: Jeffery T. Richelson. A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. 1 July 2017. 17 July 1997. Oxford University Press, USA. 978-0-19-511390-7. 128.
  4. Book: Nigel West. Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence. 1 July 2017. 31 August 2012. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7187-8. 105.
  5. Web site: Volume 4 – Signal Intelligence Service of the Army High Command . NSA . 12 November 2016 . 1 May 1946 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160918103420/https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/european-axis-sigint/assets/files/Volume_4_army_high_command_sigint_service.pdf . 18 September 2016 . dmy-all . 217.
  6. News: Von Volker . Jost . Zentrum für Nachrichtenwesen der Bundeswehr schließt . 13 October 2019 . General-Anzeiger . General-Anzeiger Bonn GmbH . 28 June 2007 . Bonn.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Friedrich Boetzel".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.