Herbert Reinecker was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, Jungvolk. In the same year he also co-authored a book, Jugend in Waffen. This was a time when the Nazis had already been in power for three years and when the media had long been gleichgeschaltet. In 1943 he was editor-in-chief of a book entitled Der Pimpf about the training system of the Hitler Youth. Throughout World War II Reinecker served in a Propagandakompanie of the Waffen SS. In the early 1940s Reinecker also wrote a number of plays, among them Das Dorf bei Odessa and Der Mann mit der Geige. In 1944 he wrote an award-winning screenplay, Junge Adler. After the war, he started working for radio and television. At the same time he wrote screenplays for the series of German feature films of the 1960s that were loosely based on Edgar Wallace's novels as well as TV adaptations of Francis Durbridge novels and plays. 

December 24th, 1914 in Hagen  /  Died:   Jan 27th, 2007