Albert Stick

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Albert Place (* 24. January 1915 in Münster ; † 24. August 2011 in Bonn ) was a German officer of the anti-aircraft artillery in the Second World War , Major General of the Armed Forces and National Coach of the dressage riders.

Pre-war period and service with the Condor Legion

Promotions

  • 5th October 1934 flag boy of the state police
  • April 1, 1935 Fahnenjunker troop guard
  • June 1, 1935 Fahnenjunker-Oberwachtmeister
  • August 1, 1935 Fahnenjunker NCO of the Air Force
  • April 1, 1936 Oberfähnrich
  • 1st August 1936 lieutenant
  • March 1, 1939 First Lieutenant
  • November 1, 1941 Captain
  • July 1, 1943 Major
  • 1st January 1957 Lieutenant Colonel
  • July 20, 1961 Colonel
  • August 19, 1964 Brigadier General
  • October 1, 1969 Major General

Stecken joined the state police in Duisburg - Hamborn on October 5, 1934, while being simultaneously appointed as Fahnenjunker , where he was promoted to troop guard with effect from April 1, 1935. A few months later, however, he broke off his police career and switched to the Air Force on July 1, 1935 , where he also took up a course at the Air War School in Eiche. Then Stecken moved to the artillery school in Wustrow to complete the course for future artillery officers. After its termination, Stecken was assigned to the 1st Division of Flak Regtiment 8 on October 1, 1936 . Effective April 4, 1938 now the (mot) Flak department 88 allocated Insert took as part of the Condor Legion on Civil War Spanish part. Here he was involved in the anti-aircraft department on the Ebro offensive, in the first and second Mediterranean offensive, in the subsequent Ebro defensive battles and in the Catalonia offensive. In January 1939 he returned to Germany and was assigned to the I. Department of Flak Regiment 32 in Berlin-Heiligensee .

Second World War

Deployed as an anti-aircraft officer in the Reich capital and Hamburg from August 26, 1939 to March 10, 1940, Stecken experienced the Polish campaign and the subsequent campaign in the West at home. During the occupation of Norway , he was involved in the Battle of Narvik from April 9 to June 10, 1940 . Back in Germany, Stecken was assigned to the Flak Training and Experimental Department on September 19, 1940 and attended the Flak Artillery School I in Rerik during his service there . Following this, he took up a war training course at the Air War Academy in Berlin-Gatow from December 1, 1941 . After its completion, Stecken was appointed to the staff of the Luftgau Command II in Posen , where he was assigned to the General Staff of the Air Force on October 1, 1942. After a relatively short time, he became a clerk in Staff II of the Air Force Field Corps from November 2, 1942 . On July 1, 1943, he was accepted into the Air Force General Staff. Here Stecken was assigned to the 23rd Flak Division , which was operationally in charge of the flak units there in the rear area of Luftflotte 6 on the Eastern Front . His deployment there lasted until October 1944 on the Vistula bend and in the greater Warsaw area .

Then Steckens was assigned to the newly established division z. b. V. 606 , an alarm unit in the Netherlands on the Western Front . This consisted mainly of a ragged crew of the Air Force, the Army and the Volkssturm . A mixed artillery division was also integrated in their ranks. However, it was only used for a short time and on January 11, 1945, Stecken was held at the disposal of the Chief of Technical Air Force Armaments. A few days later, on January 15, 1945, Stecken was assigned to the 8th Paratrooper Division , which was scheduled to be deployed in February 1945. With her, Stecken was involved in the defensive battles at the Wesel bridgehead . Involved in further retreat battles, it had to withdraw to the Bremen area by the end of March 1945 . This is where Stecken stood out when, of his own accord, on the night of March 25th to 26th, 1945, together with the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division and dispersed units hastily called together, under heavy artillery fire in the Empel - Millingen section , he opened a gap in the front line of the main battle line close and thus restore a coherent front again. For his fighting act as well as for personal bravery in front of the enemy, Stecken received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 28, 1945 . The 8th Paratrooper Division was in the Menslage - Cloppenburg area in April 1945 , where it was largely destroyed by British units. The remnants withdrew to Lauenburg on the Elbe , where the division surrendered on May 5, 1945. On July 10, 1946, Stecken was released from British captivity .

Post-war years and military career

After the war, Stecken began studying law, which he successfully completed in 1954. He then worked as a public prosecutor in Essen . In 1956 Stecken joined the Bundeswehr and was initially deployed in various command and staff positions. He later worked for the Defense Department in the Federal Ministry of Defense . During this time he played a decisive role in setting up the Federal Training Center (BLZ) riding in Warendorf . Appointed Brigadier General in 1964 , in this capacity he became head of the military personnel department. From October 1, 1969 to March 31, 1971 he was then commander of the 4th Air Force Division and from 1969 to 1974 chairman and until 1980 member of the dressage committee of the German Olympic Committee for Equestrian ( DOKR ). On April 1, 1971, he was adopted into retirement.

He then turned back to the amplified riding and was from 1971 to 1974 as a national coach for dressage operates. Numerous front runners - including the two now deceased Olympians Reiner Klimke and August Lütke-Westhues , and the Olympic champions Gabriela Grillo (Mülheim) and Heike Kemmer (Winsen) - were decisively shaped as riders by Albert Stecken. In 1982 Albert Stecken was awarded the German Equestrian Cross in gold by the German Equestrian Association ( FN ) for his numerous services to equestrian sport . There are several equestrian instructors in the Stecken family. The father Heinrich Stecken was the director of the Westphalian Riding and Driving School , as was his brother Paul Stecken . His older brother Fritz Stecken worked as an instructor at the cavalry school in Potsdam. Albert Stecken had already achieved great tournament successes before the beginning of the Second World War.

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