Background
Hennicke was born in Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony.
Hennicke was born in Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony.
He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1984. He was awarded a German television award for best actor for Something to Remind Maine in 2002. He has appeared in the 2004 film Downfall as Steamship General Wilhelm Mohnke, 2005"s Sophie Scholl – The Final Days as infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler, and the 2005 docudrama Speer und Er as Nazi leader Rudolf Hess.
In 2009 he appeared as one of the primary antagonists in science-fiction thriller Pandorum, portraying the leader of a group of genetically mutated human-hybrids.