The Henneicke Column (Dutch: Colonne Henneicke) was a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators working in the investigative division of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung) in Amsterdam, during the Nazi Germany occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Between March and October 1943 the group, led by former auto mechanic Wim Henneicke [nl] and Willem Briedé, was responsible for tracking down Jews in hiding and arresting them.
[1] The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US $4.75).
Before Nazi Germany retreated from the Netherlands in May 1945, Wim Henneicke was assassinated by the Dutch resistance in December 1944 in Amsterdam.
The history of the Henneicke Column was researched by Dutch journalist Ad van Liempt, who in 2002 published in the Netherlands: A Price on Their Heads, Kopgeld, Dutch bounty hunters in search of Jews, 1943.