Heinrich Koenen

Heinrich Koenen ( born May 12, 1910 in Königsberg, † February 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German engineer, anti-fascist resistance fighter and agent of Soviet military intelligence service GRU.

Life

Heinrich Koenen grew up in Berlin -Moabit, where he became the political leader of the Young Communist League of Germany ( KJVD ) selected. He played in the ice hockey team of the workers' sports club " spruce ". He studied at the Technical University Berlin and Engineering, but was expelled shortly before his final examination for political reasons in 1933 and emigrated because of its particular vulnerability, the son of the KPD Reichstag deputies Wilhelm Koenen over Denmark and Sweden in the Soviet Union. There he worked as an engineer in a Moscow tractor factory, and in 1940 Soviet citizen.

After the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he volunteered for military service. He was trained for use in Germany as a paratrooper and radio operator. He was awarded the contract, the broken connection to the Moscow headquarters of the Comintern and the GRU, so the military intelligence service of the Soviet Union to restore with the Berlin group of the Red Orchestra. On October 23, 1942 Koenen jumped behind German lines at Osterode in East Prussia with a parachute and came to Berlin. On October 29, 1942 Heinrich Koenen was arrested at the home of Use Stobe, with whom he should contact in Berlin's Westend. There they found a Gestapo officer on visitors to the previously arrested Stöbe.

Koenen was murdered without trial in February 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Honors

The name Heinrich Koenen was entered on a porphyry memorial stone on the right side of the curtain wall of the memorial of the Socialists.