August Dieckmann (SS member)

SS-Sturmbannführer August Dieckmann on the right (with binoculars around his neck) on the occasion of a troop visit by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in September 1942 on the Eastern Front. (Propaganda recording)

Dieckmann at the award of the Iron Cross 2nd class to soldiers of the "Wiking" division

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August Hinrich Dieckmann (born May 29, 1912 in Cadenberge , † October 10, 1943 on an island in the central section of the Dnepr , Soviet Union ) was a German SS standard leader of the Schutzstaffel and Waffen SS in World War II .

Life

Dieckmann joined the General SS on November 4, 1933 and was assigned to the 1st Sturm of SS-Standarte 88 . From April 1, 1934, he attended the SS Junk School in Braunschweig , where he was assigned to the 2nd Storm of SS Standard 2 ( Munich ). After successfully completing the Junker School on April 25, 1935, he completed a train driver course in Dachau by the end of March 1936 . During this time he was on July 1, 1935, SS Standard Junker and on 25 February 1936 SS Standard Upper Junker transported .

On April 1, 1936 he was transferred to the III. Sturmbann of SS Standard 1 "Germany" to Ellwangen , where Dieckmann was promoted to SS-Sturmführer on April 20, 1936 . From 1 October 1936 to the end of May 1937 served Dieckmann in IV. Sturmbann the SS regiment 1. After subsequent completion of a troop Pioneer course at the pioneer school in Dessau took place on 12 September 1937, the promotion to SS- Obersturmführer . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 4,455,713). From November 1937 to the end of April 1938 Dieckmann served as platoon leader in the III. Sturmbann der SS-Standarte 1. In May 1938 he was transferred to the II. Sturmbann of his standard . Army Corps was posted to Hanover . At the beginning of December 1938, Dieckmann returned to his Sturmbann.

On June 1, 1939 Dieckmann was commissioned with the leadership of the II. Sturmbann of SS-Standarte 1 (Commander Felix Steiner ). He was commanded by Dieckmann , who was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer on September 1, 1939 during the attack on Poland . The standard, now called SS Regiment "Germany" (mot.) (With battalions instead of storms), was subordinate to the Panzer Division Kempf (Commander Werner Kempf ), which was newly established on August 19, 1939 and was part of the 3rd Army (Commander Georg von Küchler ) was used and thereby u. a. excelled through mass murders of Polish Jews. On September 28, 1939 Dieckmann was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

The 2nd battalion of the SS regiment "Germany" (motorized), as part of the SS disposal division , Dieckmann commanded in the spring of 1940 in the western campaign . He received the Iron Cross 1st class on June 3, 1940. After the end of the campaign in the west, Dieckmann was delegated to the SS Junker School in Braunschweig as a tactics teacher; there he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer on December 26, 1941 .

On February 10, 1941 Dieckmann was entrusted with the leadership of the 1st battalion of the SS regiment "Germania" ( SS division "Wiking" ), which he commanded from June 1941 in the Eastern campaign . The regiment advanced towards Rostov as part of Army Group South until November 1941 and was then involved in the Battle of Rostov . On December 26, 1941 Dieckmann was appointed commander of the SS regiment "Germania". On February 28, 1942, the German Cross in gold was awarded. On April 23, 1942 Dieckmann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

On April 16, 1943 Dieckmann was entrusted with the leadership of the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment "Westland" in the SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Wiking". On the same day he received the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross. On April 20, 1943 Dieckmann was appointed commander of the regiment. On June 21, 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer .

On October 10, 1943 Dieckmann was awarded the Swords for Oak Leaves of the Knight's Cross. On the same day he was killed in the bridgehead battles on the central Dnieper on what the Germans called “Foxtail Island”. His funeral took place in Korsun . On May 15, 1944 Dieckmann was posthumously promoted to SS-Standartenführer with effect from October 1, 1943.

Dieckmann is still associated with the Oradour massacre to this day . However, this massacre was not carried out by him, but by Adolf Diekmann in June 1944.

literature

• Werner Ebeling , Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. The knight's cross bearers of the infantry. Part III, Volume 4: Canders – Dowerk. ISBN 978-3764825348 .
• Franz Thomas with the assistance of Günter Wegmann: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945. Volume 1: A-K. Biblio-Verlag 1997, ISBN 978-3764822996 .

Web links

• David Almon Miller: Die Schwerträger der Wehrmacht - The Recipients of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords : Merriam Press 2006, 5th edition, ISBN 1475063385 . Book partly online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ebeling / Thomas / Wegmann p. 246.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Ebeling / Thomas / Wegmann p. 247.
3. ↑ Andreas Toppe: Military and international law of war: legal norm, specialist discourse and war practice in Germany 1899-1940, p. 327. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, accessed on September 13, 2012 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas / Wegmann p. 118.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 271.
6. ^ Mkg / ah: The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in 1944. German Historical Museum, accessed on September 13, 2012 . 
7. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Actual Edition Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 108.