Heinz Linge

Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 1980) was a valet at Adolf Hitler's headquarters.

Linge was born in Bremen. He worked as a valet at Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg and at Hitler's bunker in Berlin in the last days of the Führer's life, and was Hitler's personal ordinance officer. Linge delivered messages to Hitler and escorted people for whom Hitler had sent. He was one of many soldiers, servants, secretaries and officers who moved into the Reich Chancellery bunker in 1945. There he continued as Hitler's valet and protocol officer and was one of those who closely witnessed the last days of Hitler's life during the Battle of Berlin.

Linge was one of the last to leave the bunker and was arrested by the Red Army, which interogated him about the circumstances of Hitler's death. He was released from Soviet captivity in 1955 and died in Bremen in West Germany in 1980.

Linge is portrayed by actor Thomas Limpinsel in Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 German film Downfall. A Soviet film depicts Linge shooting Hitler after his death, in order to create the impression that he had not died in a "cowardly" manner, by cyanide.