Albrecht Reinecke

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Albrecht Reinecke (born June 3, 1871 in Osnabrück , † February 16, 1943 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German officer , most recently major general of the Reichswehr .

Life

He was the son of the Privy Councilor Philipp Reinecke (1819-1894) and his wife Bertha, née Pagenstecher (1836-1910).

Reinecke received his officer license as a second lieutenant in the Prussian Army on September 16, 1885 . In 1900/01 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China. Here he got to know Wilhelm Faupel .

From 1906 to 1910 he was a military instructor at the Argentine Military Academy.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Reinecke moved into the field as a lieutenant colonel in the staff of the 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 on the western front . In the further course of the war he was promoted to colonel on October 5, 1916 and later served as artillery commander No. 100 in the 13th Reserve Division . For his achievements, Reinecke was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Crown Order IV class with swords, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords, the Bavarian Military Merit Order IV class with swords and crown and the Knight's Cross First Class of the Albrecht Order been awarded with swords.

After the war, transferred to the Army, Reinecke was from 1 April 1923 to 31 December 1925 commander of the 5th Artillery Regiment in Ulm and then retired with the character as a major general from active military service.

From 1936 to 1938 he was acting head of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin . He died on February 16, 1943 in Berlin-Lichterfelde , where he had lived for years.

Reinecke's first marriage in 1911 was his second cousin Bertha Pagenstecher (1887–1921) and was thus brother-in-law of the later Colonel General Ludwig Beck . From this marriage came three children, Elisabeth (1913–1945), Gustav (1921–1944) and Renate (1925–1945). After the death of his first wife, he was married in 1930 to Gertrude Heine (1887–1945). His son died in 1944 as a captain and battery chief on the Eastern Front; his second wife and two daughters died in late April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Volume 9/1928, Leipzig 1928, p. 1248.
  2. ↑ a b German Gender Book Volume 135, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1965, p. 394.
  3. ↑ a b Ranking of the officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg Army Corps 1917. Ed .: War Ministry . Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son. Berlin 1917. p. 152.
  4. ^ Honorary ranking list of the former German Army. Ed .: German Officer Association. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926. p. 477.
  5. ↑ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house. Berlin 1925. p. 112.
  6. ↑ An Institute and its General. Wilhelm Faupel and the Ibero-American Institute during the National Socialist era. Frankfurt am Main 2003. pp. 597-598.
  7. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Müller : Colonel General Ludwig Beck. A biography . Schöningh, Paderborn 2008. ISBN 978-3-506-72874-6 , p. 565
personal data
SURNAME Reinecke, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1943
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde