Hellmuth Mäder

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Hellmuth Oskar Walter Mäder (* July 5, 1908 in Rotterdam ; † May 12, 1984 in Koblenz ) was major general in the Wehrmacht and later lieutenant general in the German armed forces .

Police and Wehrmacht

On April 1, 1928, Mäder joined the police service as an officer candidate , attended the Bonn State Police School, the State Police School for Weapons Service and Physical Training in Spandau near Berlin, the Oak State Police School and the School for Technology and Traffic in Berlin-Tempelhof. On April 1, 1933, he was promoted to lieutenant police and exactly one year later to lieutenant police.

On October 1, 1935, Mäder joined the Wehrmacht as a first lieutenant. Between August and December 1939 he served as an orderly officer in the 34th Infantry Division , after which he completed a three-month general staff course at the Dresden War Academy .

From May 1940 he led the 14th Company of the 522nd Infantry Regiment. In the winter of 1940 he was commander of the III. Battalion of the 522nd Infantry Regiment. In March 1942 Mäder was promoted to major , on April 3, 1942 he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (952nd award). In July 1942 he was entrusted with the command of the 522 Infantry Regiment and appointed its commander in September. Maiden's regiment was destroyed in Stalingrad in January 1943 , and he himself was flown out in good time. In May 1943 he was given command of the newly established 522nd Grenadier Regiment. On October 1, 1943, he was promoted to colonel.

At the beginning of 1944 , Mäder was briefly transferred to the Führerreserve , but in January Mäder became the commander of the Narva intervention brigade, before he was appointed commander of the Männiku Army Group Weapons School and the North Training Brigade in April. From July 24th he was combat commander of Schaulen and briefly commander of the combat group center. On August 27, Mäder was awarded the Knight's Cross Oak Leaves (560th award). In September he commanded the Lithuanian volunteer associations and from October to December he led the 7th Panzer Division , which was followed by a four-week division leader course in Hirschberg. On December 24, 1944, he was given command of the Führer Grenadier Brigade and took part in the Battle of the Bulge with her . At the end of January 1945, Mäder was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the Führer Grenadier Division (formerly Brigade), which was reclassified at the same time. On April 18, 1945, Mäder received the Swords for Oak Leaves (143rd award). In May he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in October 1955.

armed forces

In September 1957, two years after his return from captivity, Mäder joined the German Armed Forces, where he was in command of the Hammelburg Infantry School until 1960 . On February 21, 1958, he was promoted to brigadier general.

In October 1960, Mäder was promoted to major general and head of the troop office in Cologne, where he worked until his retirement in 1968. In April 1968 Mäder was promoted to lieutenant general, on May 24th he received the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and in September he retired.

pensioner

After leaving the Bundeswehr, Mäder worked for the American helicopter manufacturer Bell and the German company Rheinmetall .

In October 1976 Mäder was sentenced to two years' imprisonment without parole by the 8th Large Criminal Chamber of the Cologne Regional Court for fraud and continued corruption, but did not have to serve the sentence. He also lost his rank as lieutenant general and parts of his pension. As head of the Cologne Troops Office, Mäder had cheated the federal government out of about DM 17,000 separation allowance and accepted substantial donations from the head of a repair shop that had a business relationship with the Bundeswehr.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The military careers of the generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr 1955–1997 , Vol. 3, ISBN 978-3-7648-2382-5 , p. 156ff.
  2. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 213 ( google.de [accessed on May 2, 2019]).
  3. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 211 ( google.de [accessed on May 2, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Details on the "Führer Grenadier Brigade" in Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 , Volume 14, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 ; P. 76 f.
  5. ↑ Golden October , DER SPIEGEL 8/1969
  6. ↑ See: DIED: Hellmuth Mäder , DER SPIEGEL 21/1984, p. 124
  7. ↑ Details of the process in: General Ad has betrayed the federal government. Hellmuth Mäder for two years in prison , Hamburger Abendblatt No. 246, year 29, October 21, 1976, p. 26
predecessor Office successor
Hellmuth Reinhardt Heads of the Army Office
1960–1968 		Hubert Sonneck
personal data
SURNAME Mäder, Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mäder, Hellmuth Oskar Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1984
Place of death Koblenz