Alfred Philippi

Alfred Philippi (born August 3, 1903 in Bübingen ; † June 15, 1994 in Winnweiler ) was a German major general in World War II .

Life

He was the son of a civil engineer and his wife Luise, née Handmann.

Military career

On April 1, 1924, Philippi joined the 13th (Württemberg) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr . After moving to the 11th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment , he was appointed lieutenant on August 1, 1928 . From 1930 he served in the 13th Company and was appointed first lieutenant on May 1, 1932 . On October 1, 1934, he became chief of the 14th Company of the Königsbrück Infantry Regiment. On October 15, 1935, he moved to the 53rd Infantry Regiment, and from October 1, 1938 he was a regimental adjutant in the 73rd Infantry Regiment.

After the beginning of the Second World War, Philippi became an orderly officer in the 211th Infantry Division on December 1, 1939 . On April 8, 1940, he joined the operations department in the General Staff of the Army High Command and on April 1, 1942, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. On May 1, 1942 he was first general staff officer of the 111th Infantry Division and on December 1 was promoted to colonel . He then worked as an operations officer in the 306th Infantry Division . From February 1 to March 1, 1943, Philippi was commander of the 304th Infantry Division on behalf of Ernst Sieler . On March 1, 1943, he was appointed commander of the 535 Grenadier Regiment of the 384th Infantry Division with deployments in Belgium and northern France and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on May 14, 1944 . After being transferred to the Führerreserve , he attended a guide course from July to August 1944. On September 1, 1944, he was entrusted as a colonel with the leadership of the 361st Volksgrenadier Division , which was deployed in the section of the 1st Army in the Saar Palatinate . With the promotion to major general on January 1, 1945, Philippi was given command of the large association .

After being a prisoner of war, from February 1957 to 1958 he was a member of the "Control Group" of the Operational History (German) Section of the US Army, which was led by the former Army Chief of Staff, Franz Halder . After the war, his publication The Campaign Against Soviet Russia 1941 to 1945: An Operational Overview, edited together with Lieutenant General Heim , attracted greater attention.

literature

Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished? The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2016, biography on p. 341.

Individual evidence

^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 18 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).
↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 593.
↑ ^a ^b Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 70 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Philippi, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buebingen
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 1994
Place of death	Winnweiler

[1] Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 18 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).

[2] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 593.

[:0-3] Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 70 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).