Joachim Neumann (officer)

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Joachim Neumann (born November 3, 1916 in Mainz , † October 17, 2000 in Bonn ) was a German officer . Neumann was a major in the Wehrmacht . After the Second World War he served in the Federal Border Guard and as a colonel in the German Armed Forces .

Life

Neumann attended grammar school in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he also passed the Abitur in 1935 . He joined the artillery regiment in Ludwigsburg , later the 25th Artillery Regiment , as a flag junior and was appointed lieutenant in 1937 . In 1938 Neumann was transferred to the 103rd Artillery Regiment in Vienna . The artillery regiment in which he served six years belonged to the newly established 4th Panzer Division .

During the attack on Poland he was a department intelligence officer and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1939 . Neumann was until autumn 1942, from 1941 as captain and from 1942 as major, battery chief and until June 1944 department commander. In 1943 he received the rarely awarded certificate of recognition from the Commander-in-Chief of the Army for outstanding achievements on the battlefield . After the heavy fighting on the Eastern Front near Kowel , the 4th Panzer Division was involved in the relief of the German troops trapped there, Neumann became a course director at the artillery school. Before that, he had already worked as a teacher at the artillery school for six months. In 1945 he became first general staff officer in the staff of the higher artillery commander of the 10th Army in Italy . Here he was taken prisoner of war , but was released from there in October 1945.

After the war he became a farmer for five years. In 1951 he joined the Federal Border Police, where he last worked as a department commander. 1956 Neumann became an officer in the newly founded Bundeswehr. There he served another 15 years, including as commander of the artillery training regiment in Idar-Oberstein , and in June 1971 he retired as a colonel due to illness. During his work in the Federal Ministry of Defense , he played a key role in the introduction of the M109 self-propelled howitzer . For his services he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class.

Awards

Publications

  • The 4th Panzer Division 1938–1943. Report and reflections on two lightning campaigns and two years of war in Russia. Self-published, Bonn 1985.
  • The 4th Panzer Division 1943–1945. Report and reflection on the last two years of the war in the East. 2nd improved edition together with Dietrich von Saucken , Selbstverlag, Bonn 1989.

literature

  • Joachim Neumann: The 4th Panzer Division 1943–1945. Report and reflection on the last two years of the war in the East. Short biography page 663, Bonn 1989.
  • Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 566.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Neumann: The 4th Panzer Division 1943-1945. Report and reflection on the last two years of the war in the East. Short biography page 663, Bonn 1989.
  2. ↑ a b c www.ritterkreuztraeger.info
  3. ↑ a b c Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 566.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2000
Place of death Bonn