Alfred Weeger

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Alfred Wäger (born August 17, 1883 in Bamberg ; † July 9, 1956 in Baden-Baden ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry in World War II .

Life

The son of a merchant joined the 19th Infantry Regiment “King Viktor Emanuel III” as a flag junior after graduating from the New Gymnasium in Bamberg in 1901 . von Italien "of the Bavarian Army in Erlangen . There he was promoted to lieutenant in 1903 and in 1907 transferred to Germersheim to the 17th Infantry Regiment "Orff" . From 1913 Wäger was sent to the War Academy , which he had to break off prematurely due to the beginning of the First World War .

With the mobilization , Wäger joined the 5th Infantry Brigade as 2nd Adjutant , with whom he took part in the fighting in Lorraine and France. In 1915 he was promoted to 1st adjutant and promoted to captain . From 1916 he was employed as a general staff officer in the 6th Division . There he was promoted to Second General Staff Officer in 1917 , before Wäger was assigned to the War Ministry . For his achievements during the war he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with swords and the Knight's Cross II class of the Order of Albrecht with swords.

After the end of the war he stayed in Munich at the Ministry of Military Affairs and worked on the General Staff with Franz Halder and Friedrich Dollmann in the Leeb Army Department . After the authority was dissolved, Wäger was transferred to the provisional Reichswehr and assigned to Group Command IV. Then with the formation of the army he entered the Military District Command VII, was on 1 April 1923 Major in that and, as such, the same year the Defense Ministry to Berlin added. Here Wäger was deployed in the Army Transport Department (T 7) of the Troop Office . In 1929 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and continued to serve as commander of the 1st battalion of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment . In 1931 Wäger joined the 7th (Bavarian) Division as chief of the general staff and was promoted to colonel and in 1934 to major general. With the formation of the 10th Infantry Division , Wäger took over command of the large unit in Regensburg on October 15, 1935 and became Lieutenant General in 1936 . In 1938 he was appointed general of the infantry commander of the Upper Rhine command staff, which was responsible for securing the border with France.

After the beginning of the Second World War, Wäger acted briefly as the commanding general of the XXV. Army Corps . From November 6, 1939 to December 23, 1941 he led the XXVII. Army Corps in the west and finally for a few days until the beginning of January 1942 the XXXIV. Army Corps on the central sector of the Eastern Front. He was then transferred to the Führerreserve and finally adopted in August 1942.

Wäger settled in Baden-Baden and succeeded in the last days of the war that the city was handed over to the advancing French without a fight . A bridge over the Oos has therefore been named after him since 1995 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Brand: The first 25 years of the new grammar school Bamberg: (1890-1915) . Gärtner, Bamberg 1915, p. 29 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1924, p. 135
  3. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 336
  4. ^ Badisches Tagblatt dated April 12, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Wäger, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waeger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General of the Infantry in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1956
Place of death Baden-Baden