Adolf von Schell (General, 1893)

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Adolf von Schell in March 1940.

Adolf von Schell (born August 21, 1893 in Magdeburg , † September 16, 1967 in Heidelberg ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general during the Second World War .

Life

Schell resigned in March 1914 as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment "Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick" (8 Westphalian) no. 57 of the Prussian army in Wesel and participated in the First World War in part. In November 1914 he was promoted to lieutenant and used as platoon leader in his regiment on the Western Front. From February 1915 he was company commander in the Colberg Grenadier Regiment "Graf Gneisenau" (2nd Pommersches) No. 9 and from September 1917 he was a member of the staff of the 215th Infantry Division . In June 1918 he was promoted to first lieutenant . His achievements during the war were recognized by the award of both classes of the Iron Cross , the Hanseatic Cross of the City of Hamburg , the Lippe War Merit Cross and the Wound Badge in black.

After the end of the war, Schell joined the Freikorps "Wesel" in April 1919 . At the beginning of October 1919 he was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr , where he initially belonged to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 13 and a year later to the Infantry Regiment 18 . At the beginning of October 1926 he was transferred to the headquarters of the 6th Division in Münster . There he completed an assistant driver training course , which he continued a year later with the 3rd Division in Berlin . In early January 1929 he was promoted to captain . At the beginning of October 1929 Schell became a staff officer in the Army Department (T 1) of the Troops Office in the Reichswehr Ministry . From August 1931 he completed a one-year course to become a company commander in Fort Benning , Georgia. He then returned to his post in Berlin and in early April 1932 became company commander of the 3rd Company of the 2nd (Prussian) Motor Vehicle Department.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists took over as tactics instructor at the inspector of the army, the supervision of the officer training. Promoted to major in early July 1934 , two years later he was transferred to the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW). In early August 1936 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in early November 1938 to colonel ; At the same time he became head of the office group at the High Command of the Army (OKH), head of department (weapons department of the armored troops, cavalry and motorization of the army) and in mid-November 1938 General Plenipotentiary for Motor Transport in the four-year plan and Undersecretary of State in the Reich Ministry of Transport . The so-called Schell Plan goes back to him for the production changeover of the vehicle industry to a few basic types for the purpose of rationalization, higher productivity and lower manufacturing costs. In early March 1940 he was promoted to major general and in April 1942 to lieutenant general, his highest rank in the Wehrmacht. From September 1942 he was a member of the OKW's Führerreserve . On January 1, 1943, Schell was appointed commander of the 25th Panzer Division in occupied Norway . He held this post until mid-November 1943, was then transferred back to the OKW's Führerreserve due to a serious eye disease, and finally retired at the end of December 1944.

After the end of the war he was an Allied prisoner of war until 1947 .

His father was Adolf von Schell (1861–1944). He had three sons with his wife.

Fonts

  • Leadership in battle: War experiences of a young German officer in the First World War. , The Benning / Herold. Fort Benning. Columbia 1933. (translated into German by Manfred Jerabek and re-published in 2012 - supplemented by Adolf von Schell's résumé).
  • Fight against armored cars. Verlag Gerhard Stalling. Berlin / Oldenburg 1936.
  • Service with the armored forces. J. Detke publishing house. Leipzig 1939.

literature

  • Biographical register: causes and consequences From the German collapse in 1918 and 1945 to the state reorganization of Germany in the present , Part 2: L to Z , Wendler, Berlin 1979, p. 666.
  • Manfred Jerabek: Adolf von Schell's curriculum vitae . In: Leadership in battle: War experiences of a young German officer in the First World War. , Norderstedt 2012, p. 9f.

Web links

Commons : Adolf von Schell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1924. p. 173.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007. p. 529.
  3. ^ Friedrich Hartmannsgruber (Ed.): Files of the Reich Chancellery. Hitler government 1933–1945. The Hitler government: Volume VI, 1939. Munich 2012. p. 43.
  4. ↑ Andris J. Kursietis: The Wehrmacht at War 1939-1945. Aspect. Soesterberg / NL. ISBN 90-75323-38-7 . P. 107f.
  5. ^ Günther Höfken: On the oldest history of the peasantry rake . (Addendum to the Bochum yearbook 1953)
personal data
SURNAME Schell, Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1967
Place of death Heidelberg