Alfred Boehm-Tettelbach

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Alfred Boehm-Tettelbach (born March 28, 1878 in Erstein ; † July 12, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German infantry general in World War II .

Life

Boehm joined the Infantry Regiment No. 132 of the Prussian Army on October 1, 1896 as a flag junior and was promoted to Second Lieutenant on January 27, 1898 . On December 8, 1903, he was transferred to the 1st Sea Battalion in Kiel . From here he came to the Marine Infantry Battalion of the Marine Expeditionary Corps in German South West Africa on January 18, 1904 . At the end of his service there, he was transferred back to the 1st Sea Battalion on April 11, 1905. After being used in the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 , he was commanded for further training from October 1908 to June 1911 at the War Academy . After a short troop service, he was assigned to the General Staff on April 1, 1912 , and was promoted to captain on October 1, 1913 . As such, Boehm was transferred to the General Staff in Berlin on March 22, 1914, in preparation for his next assignment abroad, and on May 30, 1914, he began his service as a military attaché in the German embassy in Belgrade .

In these weeks, the political signs were already clearly pointing to imminent military conflicts. Any further waiting, the Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Army, Colonel General Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke had informed his Austrian partner Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf in May 1914, "reduces our chances". So the task of the attachés these days was to help look for a favorable opportunity for preventive war. This came up shortly afterwards, when several Serbian nationalists put into practice their plans of assassination, which had been planned since March, on June 28, 1914 when the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand , visited. When the reports on this were on the table of Emperor Wilhelm II , he declared on June 30th “now or never” and, with the participation of his attachés in Vienna and Belgrade, strengthened the Austro-Hungarian government with an unacceptable ultimatum to Serbia in July 1914 to start the war. When the war began, Boehm was ordered back to Berlin and was transferred to the Deputy General Staff on August 17, 1914. From here he was assigned to the General Staff of the 8th Army a month later .

In the further course of the First World War , Boehm was active in various general staff assignments and in the field of field railways in the East. In June 1915 he moved from the field railways to the General Staff of the X Reserve Corps , from there to the General Staff of the 20th Infantry Division . In September of the following year he was again with the staff of the field railways and from February 1917 in the central office of the chief of the field railways. In September 1917 he was employed as a general staff officer in the field railway system and from March 22, 1918 as a major in the staff of the chief of the field railway system for special use in Vienna.

After the end of the war, Boehm was accepted into the Reichswehr and in April 1919 transferred back to the 92nd Infantry Regiment. From here it was used in the staff of Reichswehr Brigade 4 from the end of 1919 and one year later in the staff of the 3rd Division . From July 1, 1921, he was assigned to the Ministry of Defense for two years . From October 1, 1923 to June 1, 1926 he acted as commander of the III. Battalion in the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment in Dresden and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on December 1, 1923 . As such, he was transferred to the staff of the 4th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Kolberg on June 1, 1926 . In the same year he received the approval to use the suffix "Tettelbach". After his promotion to colonel on April 1, 1927, he initially stayed with this association and on November 1, 1928, took command of the 14th (Baden) Infantry Regiment in Constance . Promoted to major general , he was transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin in 1930 as head of the armed forces and was promoted to lieutenant general on October 1, 1932 . On January 31, 1933, he was retired from active service, but was reactivated in 1935 and appointed as a teacher of war history at the War Academy in Berlin-Moabit .

After the beginning of the Second World War, Boehm was from September 10, 1939 in command of the rear army area 581 in Poland . There followed uses as commander of the higher command z. b. V. XXXII in Lublin and then as commander of the Higher Command z. b. V. XXXVII in the west. In July 1940 he was deployed as a commander of the German troops in the Netherlands with the rank of general of the infantry. In 1942 he became the commanding general of the LXXXII. Army Corps. From November 1, 1942 to February 28, 1943 he was made available to the Army High Command and on that date he was also adopted into retirement.

Boehm died on July 12th in Berlin and was buried in Berlin-Dahlem . After the German reunification he found his final resting place in the family grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

His older brothers were Hans and Arthur Boehm-Tettelbach .

Awards

Fonts

  • The Bohemian campaign of Frederick the Great in 1757 in the light of Schlieffen's criticism. Berlin 1934.

literature

  • Ernst Kabisch : The leaders of the Reichsheeres 1921 and 1931. In memory of the 10y. Return of the Imperial Army on Jan. 1, 1921. Berlin 1931.
  • Dermot Bradley : The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. Volume 2: Blanckensee – v. Czettritz , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 , pp. 73-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Otto Meissner: Military attaché and military representatives in Prussia and in the German Empire. Rütten & Loening Verlag, Berlin 1957
  2. ↑ Bernd Felix Schulte: Before the outbreak of war in 1914. Germany, the Turks and the Balkans. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 108
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 537
personal data
SURNAME Boehm-Tettelbach, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infantry general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH First stone
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1962
Place of death Berlin