Alexander Abbot (General)

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Alexander Abt (born March 14, 1892 in Danzig ; † March 1, 1970 in St. Wendel ) was a German intelligence officer, most recently major general of the Wehrmacht in World War II .

Career

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Abt joined the Prussian Army as a flag junior on September 13, 1911 and joined the Telegraph Battalion No. 2 in Frankfurt (Oder) . As a lieutenant he was from September 10, 1913 over the outbreak of the First World War until August 13, 1914 with the fortress telephone company No. 5 in Königsberg . Then he led the telephone train of the Königsberg Landwehr division . He was employed in telecommunications departments throughout the war and was awarded the Iron Cross II. And I. Class and the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Albrecht Order with Swords. From October 27, 1917, he was first lieutenant, division news commander 419 .

After the end of the war, Abbot was briefly a member of the 10th Volunteer News Battalion before he was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr as an intelligence officer at the staff of the Reichswehr Brigade 10 . After the formation of the Reichswehr, Abbot was then in the 6th (Prussian) news department in Hanover . On April 1, 1927, Abt was transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry. On May 1, 1933 he was transferred to the staff of the 4th Division as the third general staff officer (Ic) . On October 1, 1934, he became the commander (corresponding to the battalion commander ) of the Munster intelligence department. On October 13, 1937, he took over as commander of Intelligence Force IX in Kassel . In the week before the attack on Poland he was in command of the 40th Intelligence Regiment. When he began, Abbot was in command of the 537 Intelligence Regiment, which was directly subordinate to Army Group North under Colonel General Fedor von Bock .

On November 27, 1940, he was transferred to the Führerreserve at the Army High Command. On May 13, 1941, he joined the staff of the Wehrmacht Commander-in- Chief in the Netherlands ( Friedrich Christiansen ) as an intelligence officer . On March 18, 1945, Abbot became Chief of Army Intelligence in the High Command of the Wehrmacht and general for special purposes. The day before the Wehrmacht surrendered , he was taken prisoner of war , from which he was released on June 26, 1947.

See also

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abberger – Bitthorn. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1993. ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 . Pp. 8-9.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. (Ed.) Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 159.
  2. ^ The German Army 1939 - structure, locations, staffing and list of all officers on 3.1.1939 , Podzun-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1953, p. 675.
personal data
SURNAME Abbot, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, major general of the Wehrmacht in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1970
Place of death St. Wendel