Army Chief Executive

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The Army Economic Leader (AWiFü) was a liaison officer (VO) of the Economic Staff East (WiStab Ost) to the Army High Command (AOK) during the Second World War . For army business leaders - in addition to the abbreviation AWiFü - the abbreviation "VO / Wi Rü Amt / IV Wi AOK" was used, which is derived from the fact that the army business leaders liaison officers (hence: VO) of the economic armament office (hence: Wi Rü Amt) to the - responsible for economic issues - Group IV (Roman 4) at the Army High Command (hence: AOK).

The army manager managed the economic exploitation of the army area controlled by the German Wehrmacht in favor of the army group to which he was assigned. The army business leaders were primarily responsible for supplying their armies “from the country”.

The designation of such liaison officers as army chiefs was introduced in February 1942.

Organizational assignment

The army economic leader was affiliated with the Army High Command (AOK), but at the same time bound by the technical instructions of the Economic Inspectorate (WiIn) responsible for the area of ​​the respective Army Group , which was a subdivision of the Economic Staff East. Although the WiIn gave instructions to the AWiFü regarding the supply of troops, the Army High Command (AOK) had priority in the decisions, so that the military had the greatest influence on economic management in the army area on this issue.

On September 5, 1942, the AWiFü were directly subordinated to the economic inspections.

The AWiFü coordinated the activities of the individual economic officers (Wi O) in the corps areas and those of the economic commandos (Wi Kdo) in the rear army area.

In the army area (operational area), the army business leaders and the advanced economic commands with their branches took on the same function that the economic inspections and the economic commands with their branches carried out in the rear army area (military administrative area).

Well-equipped economic and technical troops were available to the army managers to carry out their tasks: Defense force acquisition commands, technical battalions, rescue teams, raw material exploration teams, agricultural-technical platoons, mineral oil units, mining companies and advance economic commands.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Manfred Oldenburg, Ideology and military calculation: the occupation policy of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union in 1942 , Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar, 2004, 365 pages, p. 52, https://books.google.de/books?id = 7Pruyp8rMPQC & pg = PA52 & lpg = PA52
  2. ↑ Gert C. Lübbers, "The 6th Army and the Civilian Population of Stalingrad", in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, VfZ 1/2006 , p. 91/92 , footnote 27, p. 92, https: //www.ifz- muenchen.de/heftarchiv/2006_1.pdf
  3. ↑ a b Federal Archives, archive signature RW 31, http://www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de/RW31-28651/index.htm?kid=58a0fa61-63b9-4a1e-9895-314d701bc8f8 , https: // open-data .bundesarchiv.de / ddb -Stock / DE-1958_RW_31.xml , https://open-data.bundesarchiv.de/apex-ead/DE-1958_RW_31.xml

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