
Gustav Mackensen (1925-1963) was a German contract killer in the employ of the neo-Nazi ODESSA organization during the 1960s.
Biography[]

Mackensen's body
Gustav Mackensen was born in Germany in 1925, and he served in the Waffen-SS during World War II before becoming involved with the neo-Nazi ODESSA organization. In 1963, Werner Deilman assigned him to assassinate the journalist Peter Miller after it became known that Miller was investigating ODESSA's leader Eduard Roschmann after reading Salomon Tauber's diary. Mackensen was first sent to attack Miller's girlfriend Sigi in Hamburg, following her from her nightclub towards her home and assaulting her before the policeman Anton Kunik - playing the part of a good samaritan - offered to drive her home. He then had a female policewoman, Gisela Wodetzky, assigned to live with her; that policewoman served as an ODESSA informant. When Sigi received a call from Miller, who was disguised as Rolf Gunther Kolb, revealing that he was in Bayreuth, Mackensen decided to set a trap for Miller at the forger Klaus Wenzer's workshop. There, Miller ambushed Mackensen and engaged in a struggle with him that took them to the roof. Miller was able to push Mackensen through a skylight, and he was impaled by a nail on falling into the room below, killing him.