Camillo Ruggera

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Captain Camillo Ruggera

Camillo Ruggera , also Kamillo Ruggera, (born August 27, 1885 in Predazzo (then Tyrol , now Trentino ), † January 29, 1947 in Hof ), was an Austro-Hungarian officer , most recently a general of the anti-aircraft artillery of the German Air Force in World War II . He grew up in the Italian-speaking part of South Tyrol ( Welschtirol ).

Life

Promotions

Early years and World War I

Ruggera joined the 3rd Tyrolean Kaiserjäger Regiment on August 18, 1904 as a deputy cadet officer . From there, he was delegated to the war school in Vienna from October 10, 1909 to October 9, 1912 . He was then transferred from October 10, 1912 as a general staff officer to the 94th Infantry Brigade or, after its conversion to the 94th Infantry Troop Division, on August 1, 1914. After the outbreak of the First World War , Ruggera moved in the same position on September 22, 1914 to the staff of the V Corps Command . He stayed there until October 6, 1914. On October 7, 1914, he changed as a general staff officer in the 66th Infantry Brigade, where he was wounded on November 24, 1914. After a lengthy stay in hospital, Ruggera returned to service at the front and on February 9, 1915, was a general staff officer in the 94th Infantry Troop Division. Ruggera then exercised the same function from September 23, 1915 to September 10, 1916 in the 12th Mountain Brigade. After several months of illness (September 11 to November 11, 1916), he was appointed General Staff Officer on November 12, 1916 with the staff of the XX. Corps commands used. On January 24, 1917, he then joined the intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian Army High Command in the same position , although he only stayed there until April 11, 1917. On April 12, 1917, he took up his service as a general staff officer in the operations department of the Austro-Hungarian Army High Command, where on October 29, 1918, due to his Italian mother tongue, he became a parliamentarian for the commencement of armistice negotiations at Serravalle all'Adige north of Ala im Etschtal was commanded. He was also personally present at the later armistice negotiations in Villa Giusti and was one of the signatories of the armistice protocol.

1. Austrian Republic

On November 28, 1918, Ruggera resigned from his previous position and worked until February 2, 1920 as a consultant for Italy and Switzerland at the State Office for Army . Subsequently, from February 3, 1920 to the end of August 1920, he was a consultant in the department for interstate traffic in the State Office for the Army, and then from September 1920 to March 1921 a consultant in Department 2 there. From April 1, 1921 to the end of August In 1922, Ruggera served as a teacher in the command of the military schools in the Ministry of the Army. On September 1, 1922 Ruggera rose to Chief of Staff of the 1st Brigade; a function that he held until the end of July 1926. After a brief assignment from August to October 1926 at the infantry weapons school, he acted again as a teacher there from November 1926 to October 1927. On November 1, 1927, Ruggera was transferred to the staff of Brigade Command 1, from where he returned on April 1, 1928 as a consultant in Department 2 of the Federal Ministry of the Army .

On February 1, 1928, Ruggera was appointed Chief of Staff of the 3rd Brigade. There, Ruggera soon met with increasing distrust from his superiors due to his open attitude towards National Socialism . This escalated at the end of February 1932 when Ruggera's superior certified him incapable of carrying out his business. Thereupon Ruggera was relieved of his command, frozen and put on hold at the military expert examination commission in the war archive . There Ruggera worked on the work of Austria-Hungary's last war . During this time, Ruggera joined the NSDAP on April 12, 1933, despite the ban on Austrian officers . On May 1, 1933, Ruggera was given a leave of absence due to his National Socialist attitude with a waiting fee and on February 28, 1937, as Austria's only General Staff officer for political reasons, not returned to active service, transferred to the reserve and retired. During this time, Ruggera himself acted as staff chief of the 6th SA Brigade from autumn 1935 and very soon rose to become staff chief of the so-called S group, a special group of the 5th and 6th SA Brigade. Here he was called SA-Sturmhauptführer . No reliable information is available about further activities in the SA up to February 1938.

Wehrmacht career

Three days after Austria's annexation to the German Reich on March 12, 1938, Ruggera joined the German armed forces on March 15, 1938 , where he was initially a member of the commission for the assessment of reactivation requests at the processing office of the Ministry of National Defense in Vienna . Here Ruggera was promoted to major general on April 1, 1938. Ruggera left the army at the end of May 1938 and joined the Air Force on June 1, 1938 . There he was posted to the staff of Luftwaffe Group Command 1 until the end of January 1939. This staff was then renamed to Luftflotten-Kommando 1 on February 1, 1939 . Ruggera stayed in this staff until May 14, 1939 and was assigned to the Wehrwirtschaftsstab in the Wehrmacht High Command the following day . There he was deployed until the end of September 1939 and was appointed Commanding General and Commander in Luftgau II ( Posen ) with effect from September 30, 1939 . Ruggera, who had been promoted to General of the Flak Cartillery on December 1, 1940, held this position until February 17, 1941. He was then from February 20 to July 23, 1941 an officer for special use with the Commander in Chief of the Air Force . On July 24, 1941, he was appointed military replacement inspector in Düsseldorf . On November 30, 1942, Ruggera left active military service at her own request because of a heart condition and was put into retirement. There was no reactivation until the end of the war.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Alfred Jansa, Herta Jansa: Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Jansa: an Austrian general against Hitler: memories . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78148-6 , pp. 479 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Edmund Glaise von Horstenau: A general in the twilight: the memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Böhlau, 1980, ISBN 978-3-205-08740-3 , pp. 402 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2020]).
  3. ^ Karl Springenschmid: Fate of South Tyrol in the past and future . Stocker, 1971, ISBN 978-3-7020-0149-0 , pp. 149 u. a . ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2020]).
  4. ^ Alfred Jansa, Herta Jansa: Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Jansa: an Austrian general against Hitler: memories . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78148-6 , pp. 480 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b Nikolaus von Preradovich: Grossdeutschland 1938: Dream, Reality, Tragedy . Druffel-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 978-3-8061-1051-7 , pp. 415 ( google.de [accessed on February 5, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Ruggera, Camillo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruggera, Kamillo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, most recently German general of the anti-aircraft cartillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Predazzo
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1947
Place of death court