28 August 1977(1977-08-28) (aged 80) Krefeld, Germany
Allegiance
Germany
Service/branch
Abwehr
Years of service
1939–1945
Rank
Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant colonel)
Battles/wars
World War II
Hermann Josef Giskes (28 September 1896 – 28 August 1977) was a German intelligence officer of the Abwehr, the military intelligence department of the German military forces during World War II. He is best known for being the head of the counter-intelligence department of the Abwehr in the Netherlands from 1941 to 1944. He carried out an operation called Englandspiel or Operation North Pole which resulted in the capture of more than 50 agents of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the confiscation of tons of military equipment, including weapons, which SOE had parachuted into the Netherlands to arm Dutch groups resisting the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany. Most of the captured agents were executed after being forced to participate in a disinformation campaign which led SOE to believe that its agents were being successful in organizing and supplying the Dutch resistance.
supplying the Dutch resistance. Hermann Josef Giskes was born in Krefeld, the third of four children of Wilhelm and Maria Giskes. The father was a merchant...
infants, keen and willing, but quite unfitted for that kind of warfare. HermannGiskes, Abwehr, Netherlands Englandspiel ('England Game'), or Operation North...
de Freitas Ferraz Arthur Fonjallaz Reinhard Gehlen Erich Gimpel HermannGiskesHermann Görtz Herbert Hans Haupt Stephanie von Hohenlohe Kurt Jahnke Josef...
of dedicated Nazis. For example, it is now known that Abwehr agent HermannGiskes and Joseph Schreieder of the Gestapo cooperated in an operation known...
Calling North Pole, by Hermann J. Giskes, published by William Kimber, London, 1953. "German Intelligence Officers, Herman GISKES", 1945 Jul 26-1947 Feb...
published in 1953 by Marks's German opposite number in the Netherlands, HermannGiskes, in his book London Calling North Pole. In his book (pp. 222–3), Marks...
the V-1 flying bomb reprisal offensive as secret as possible. Oberst HermannGiskes was head of Abwehr (German military intelligence) in the Low Countries...
Tobias Schreieder Born 15 August 1904. With German Intelligence Officer HermannGiskes he ran the Englandspiel operation in which over 50 Dutch Agents were...
his wife met frequently to play poker at a Paris cafe. In May 1943, HermannGiskes, head of German Abwehr intelligence in the Netherlands, sent two Dutch...
Torbergsdatter was born on Giske in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. She belonged to the Giskeætten, a powerful family from Giske in Sunnmøre. She was daughter...
tiden (Norstedts förlag) ISBN 978-9113015248 Magnusson, Magnus; Pálsson, Hermann (1976) King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's...
Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic Hermann Beckh (1875–1937), pioneering Tibetologist and prominent promoter of anthroposophy. Hermann Bek-Gran (1869–1909), painter...
Heart [de] Robert van Ackeren Elisabeth Trissenaar, Matthias Habich, Heinrich Giskes [de] Drama Put on Ice Bernhard Sinkel Helmut Griem, Martin Benrath, Ángela...
Förnbacher Spy, War Apokal Paul Anczykowski Inken Sommer [de], Heinrich Giskes [de], Tilo Prückner Drama Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival Aufstiegschancen...
in Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture, ed. by Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell, and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, AS 4 (Turnhout: Brepols...
(Bulgaria) 20 July 1996 Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest Attendance: 600 Referee: Hermann Albrecht (Germany) 20 July 1996 Stade de Roudourou, Guingamp Attendance:...
Pensjonsfond for Bærums Verk (Counts of Jarlsberg) Gustav og Maria Smith og Hermann Wedel-Jarlsbergs Legat (Counts of Jarlsberg) Jarlsberg Hovedgårds Gravstedlegat...
December – Odd Hoftun, engineer and missionary (died 2023). 14 February – Hermann Hansen Aarsrud, politician (born 1837). 22 March – Ingebrigt Vik, sculptor...
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