Bernhard Köttgen

Bernhard Köttgen

Bernhard Köttgen (born April 23, 1909 in Berlin ; † July 10, 1999 in Brühl (Rhineland) ) was a German administrative lawyer and judge.

Life

After the early death of his father, Köttgen came to Dortmund as a student , where both parents came from. After graduating from high school , he enrolled in the summer semester of 1928 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for law. In the same semester he became active in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From there he moved regularly as an MC with the Corps Palaiomarchia . In April 1932 he passed the legal traineeship in Jena . He began his legal clerkship in Dortmund. In December 1932 he was promoted to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . In January 1933 he went to Frankfurt (Oder) . In December 1933, he moved to the internal administration of the Free State of Prussia as a government trainee . In 1934 he served three months as a volunteer in the Reichswehr . Appointed government assessor in 1936 , he first came to Merseburg , then to Cologne , where he became Eggert Reeder's personal advisor .

Second World War

German military administration of Belgium and Northern France

On the day of mobilization , he was drafted to reorganize an infantry regiment . Since November 1, 1939 First Lieutenant d. R. , he was employed at the Siegfried Line until January 1940 . He came to the Army High Command , which in May 1940 transferred him to the newly created Military Commander in Belgium and Northern France . Shipowner was head of the military administration. Due to voluntary reporting, Köttgen came in August 1940 as a company commander to the 96th Infantry Regiment, which was in France and was transferred to Bromberg in September 1940 . On the first day of the German-Soviet War , he and his unit crossed the border with Lithuania . First as a company commander, then as a battalion leader and captain , he took part in the advance to Lake Velye ( Veliky Novgorod ). Seriously wounded in the face while on patrol in February 1942 , he was treated in hospitals for over two and a half years . In the meantime, from 1942 to 1945, he performed the duties of the district administrator in the Bergheim (Erft) district . In autumn 1944 he became the commander of a Volkssturm regiment that was not used due to a lack of weapons. On March 1, 1945 he was able to flee Bergheim . Through shipowners he came to Army Group B under Walter Model . In Wuppertal , he was taken prisoner by shipowner . After a difficult start, he became the commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp in France.

post war period

He was released in July 1946 and came to the Oberbergisches Land , where his wife and one child had been evacuated . Occupied with a professional ban by the Allies , he was retired in 1949; however, the pension entitlement should not become due until the age of 45. In 1952 he came to the pension administration . In May 1954 - just in time before the pension maturity - he became a judge for life at the Cologne Social Court . When he reached retirement age in 1974, he took regular retirement .

He lived with his family in Schlebusch since 1960 and spent the last years of his life in a retirement home in Brühl. Since 1951 he has been wearing a corps ribbon at Palaiomarchia, he received the Altmark ribbon in 1953 and the Masurian ribbon in 1960 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1996 129 /1037 113 /567 and 98 /1298
2. ↑ Dissertation: The Civil Law Significance of the Following Excessive Rent
3. ↑ Caraway: Bernhard Köttgen . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 102/103 (2000), pp. 916–918