Marcus Puttkamer

Marcus Puttkamer (d 1939) was a German sergeant and sniper sent to hunt Czech sniper Vaclav Jezek in France in 1939. He befriended Willi Dernen and recruited Dernen to be his assistant in the snipers' duel--a very dangerous job, but one which allowed Dernen to escape Arno Baatz's chain of command. Puttkamer was so pleased with Dernen's performance that he trained Dernen to become a sniper himself. His plan was for the two snipers to operate in loose cooperation to bag Jezek. However, he wound up training Dernen as his replacement instead: The day Dernen began operating fully as a sniper was the day that Puttkamer fell to Jezek's rifle.