This sound, to be precise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_pharyngeal_fricative
It is indeed closer in terms of its place of articulation to English 'h' than either variant of the German 'ch' sound.
It is indeed closer in terms of its place of articulation to English 'h' than either variant of the German 'ch' sound.
To my ears [ħ] sounds closer to [x] and [χ] than to [h] (even though the place of articulation is closer to [h]), but I'm sure it's different for people who (natively) speak a language with all three.