Karl Linke [SEP] place of death
Karl Linke
Karl Linke (born 10 January 1900: died Zittau 16 May 1961) was an officer in the East German army. Between 1952 and 1957 he was head of the country's Military Intelligence ("Verwaltung für Allgemeine Fragen") service.
Following the discovery of security breaches, on 31 August 1957 he was reduced in rank to reserve colonel.
Life.
Life Early years.
Karl Linke was born in , then on the north-western frontier of Bohemia which was a quarter in the industrial
. During 1944 as the leader of a reconnaissance group he took part in armed Slovakian partisan operations and then in the Slovak National Uprising against the Axis government which erupted between August and October 1944. The war ended in the early summer of 1945 and Karl Linke returned to Moscow, suffering from wounds endured in the war and on account of the death of his son Heinz who had been killed while fighting with the Slovak partisans.
Life To Czechoslovakia and then to (East) Germany.
In 1946 Karl Linke returned to Czechoslovakia