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Gerhard Georg Mertins
Born
(1919-12-30)30 December 1919 Berlin, Germany
Died
19 March 1993(1993-03-19) (aged 73) Florida, United States
Allegiance
Germany (1940-1945) Iran (1976)
Service/branch
Luftwaffe
Rank
Hauptmann
Commands held
Fallschirm-Pionier-Bataillon 5
Battles/wars
World War II
Operation Mercury[1]
Eastern Front
Operation Greif
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Other work
Businessman
Arms dealer[2]
Intelligence operative
Gerhard Georg Mertins (30 December 1919 – 19 March 1993) was a German paratrooper, post-war arms dealer and German Intelligence operative. In 1943, he participated in the Gran Sasso raid rescuing Benito Mussolini from prison.[3] According to Manuel Contreras, he allegedly supplied the Pinochet regime with arms and helicopters. In 1976, he and Manuel Contreras traveled to Tehran to offer the Shah regime help in killing Carlos the Jackal.[4]
^Hammerschmidt 2013, p. 392.
^Hammerschmidt 2013, p. 393.
^Romano Mussolini, My father, il Duce, Kales Press 2006, S.29: "For more than sixty years, my father´s liberation from Gran Sasso was attributed solely to Skorzeny, even though Mors and Mertins played crucial roles."
^González, Mónica (6 August 2009). "El día en que Manuel Contreras le ofreció al Sha de Irán matar a "Carlos, El Chacal"". ciperchile.cl (in Spanish). CIPER. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
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sold police and military equipment. Its founder, Mertins, was the son of arms trafficker GerhardMertins. According to Conflict Arms Research the company...
demands were not met, thus failing his mission. Manuel Contreras, GerhardMertins, Sergio Arredondo and an unidentified Brazilian general traveled to...
(CNI) took its place.[citation needed] In 1976, Contreras, along with GerhardMertins, Sergio Arredondo, and an unidentified Brazilian general, traveled...
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and war propaganda, and had collaborated closely with SS functionaries Gerhard Rühle [de] and Franz Alfred Six. The latter was responsible for mass murders...
successor, Martin Mussgnug, Thadden eventually left the NPD in 1975 after Gerhard Frey, who had previously been a harsh critic of von Thadden, was appointed...
PMID 35325496. S2CID 247677842. Breznak, John A.; Brill, Winston J.; Mertins, James W.; Coppel, Harry C. (August 1973). "Nitrogen Fixation in Termites"...
school music, church music, organ (concert exam with distinction with Gerhard Weinberger [de]), conducting, composition, educational science and theology...
Women Photographers. Abbeville. Claudia Andujar at Museum of Modern Art. Gerhard Bissell, Andujar, Claudia, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Artists of...
Heinrich von Brentano was considered too subservient to the Chancellor and Gerhard Schröder became foreign minister [Williams, p. 495. John Gunther: Inside...
Wissenschaft und Unterricht (in German). 15: 538. ISSN 0016-9056. Ritter, Gerhard (1964). Staatskunst und Kriegshandwerk: Das Problem des "Militarismus"...
secretary in the Foreign Office. He was succeeded by his party fellow Gerhard Schröder. Grand Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (10 April 1958)...
(FDP) left the coalition. The FDP politicians Knud von Kühlmann-Stumm and Gerhard Kienbaum also declared that they would vote against Brandt, completing...
1927, pp. 47–48; tr. Harry Francis Mallgrave with introduction by Detlef Mertins, The Victory of the New Building Style, Texts & Documents, Los Angeles:...
Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, DP Hans Merten, SPD (from 23 April 1951) Arthur Mertins, SPD Erich Meyer, SPD Heinz Meyer, SPD Emmy Meyer-Laule, SPD Friedrich...
1953 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Preceded by Gustav Heinemann Succeeded by Gerhard Schröder Member of the Bundestag In office 7 September 1949 – 7 September...
Dietrich Bracher u.a., Die moderne Demokratie und ihr Recht. Festschrift für Gerhard Leibholz zum 65. Geburtstag, Tübingen 1966, Seiten 123–134 Zukunftserwartungen...
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