Ernst Werner Techow

Ernst Werner Techow (12 October 1901 – 9 May 1945) was a German right-wing assassin. In 1922, he took part in the assassination of the Foreign Minister of Germany Walther Rathenau, whose insistence that Germany follow the terms of the Treaty of the Versailles, along with his Jewish faith, enraged far-right German nationalists. After his release from prison, Techow initially joined the Nazi Party, but soon fell out with the movement and dropped into obscurity. Late in World War II, he joined the Volkssturm. Techow was killed after being captured by the Soviet Red Army near Dresden on 9 May 1945.

A story was circulated that Techow had changed his political beliefs after his release from prison, joined the French Foreign Legion in 1941 under the name of "Tessier" and later embarked on helping Jews escape from occupied France, but this was found to be false.