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

Heinrich Koenen was born in Berlin, the son of Communist Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Koenen. He was selected as political head of the German Communist Youth (KJVD). He studied engineering at the Technical University of Berlin but was expelled in 1933 before his final examination for political reasons. He emigrated via Denmark and Sweden to the Soviet Union, where he worked as an engineer in a Moscow tractor factory and in 1940 became a Soviet citizen.

After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, he volunteered for military service and was trained for use in Germany as a paratrooper and radio operator. He was given the task of restoring the broken links between the Moscow headquarters of the Comintern and the GRU and the Berlin group of the Red Orchestra. On 23 October 1942 Koenen parachuted behind German lines at Osterode in East Prussia and made his way to Berlin. He was arrested on 29 October 1942 in the apartment of Ilse Stöbe, his contact in West Berlin, by a waiting Gestapo official.

Koenen was executed without trial in February 1945 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His name is inscibed on a memorial stone in the Gedenkstatte der Sozialisten Socialist Memorial in Lichtenberg, Berlin.

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