Reinhard Günzel

Reinhard Günzel is a former German general. He joined the Bundeswehr in 1963. He commanded the parachute battalion in Merzig, a hunting regiment in Trier and the Jägerbrigade in Frankenberg. He also studied history and philosophy in Tübingen. He was the commander of the Kommando Spezialkräfte from November 2000 until November 2003. After sending a letter supporting Martin Hohmann, a former member of the Bundestag, and the speech that Hohmann had made that compared "the actions of Jews in the 1917 Russian revolution with those of the Nazis", Günzel was fired from his position as General by Defence Minister Peter Struck. General Günzel is the author of the “Secret Warriors”, a book in which according to an article in the New York Times "he placed the KSK in the tradition of a notorious special forces unit under the Nazis that committed numerous war crimes, including massacres of Jews. He has been a popular speaker at far-right events".