Carl-Gero von Ilsemann

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Carl-Gero Alfred Helmuth Kurt von Ilsemann (born September 5, 1920 in Altenhaßlau near Gelnhausen , † February 5, 1991 in Neu-Ulm ) was a German army officer in the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr , most recently in the rank of lieutenant general . He also worked for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as a military writer. From 1980 to 1984 he worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine Europäische Wehrkunde - Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau .

Military background

Origin and Wehrmacht

Von Ilsemann was born the son of an officer in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . After graduating from high school in Berlin, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Radensfelde, Bütow district ( Pomerania ) in April 1939 .

Promotions

In August 1939 he joined the Wehrmacht's artillery supply battalion in Hanover as an officer candidate . From October 1939 to January 1940 he was trained in the Artillery Replacement Department 19 in Hanover-Bothfeld and then in the 19 Artillery Regiment. From June to August 1940 he completed his driver training in the Artillery Replacement Battalion 19 in Hanover-Bothfeld. He then attended the Jüterbog artillery school : from May to June 1940, he was head of operations, observer and gun leader in the 19th artillery regiment.

From January 1941 he was a training officer and retrained in the motorized artillery in the 3rd / Artillery Regiment 19 (motorized) in Hanover and Sennelager . In June 1941 he became an advanced observer. In July and August 1941 he was an artillery liaison officer to the I./Panzerartillerieregiment 19. He was then used as a battalion adjutant (II.) And from September 1942 as a battery officer (5th). From January to May 1942 a hospital stay in the cities occupied by German troops Charkow and Krakow as well as Berlin followed. He also took part in a course for recovering officers in Berlin-Spandau .

From June 1943 he retrained to self-propelled in the 9th (Sf) / Artillery Training Regiment 2 in Jüterbog. From July to December 1943 he was a training officer. In December 1943 he became battery chief of the 5th and in January 1944 the 2nd (Sf). In March 1944 he became a regimental adjutant. From February to May 1945 he was a battalion commander of the II. He got into the liberated Czechoslovakia in captivity . After several attempts to escape, he returned to Germany in June 1945.

post war period

From September 1945 to September 1946 he was managing director of the Hildesheim cultural ring south of Hanover. In the winter semester of 1946 he began to study law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , which he had to break off in 1949 for financial reasons. Then he worked as a journalist .

From November 1949 to April 1956 he worked as managing director of the Wholesale Association of Lower Saxony and the Hildesheim restaurant association as well as department head in the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for southern Hanover in Hildesheim.

armed forces

After founding the Bundeswehr , he joined the army in 1956 with the rank of captain : In April 1956 he took part in a course in Sonthofen in the Allgäu. From June 1956 to March 1957 he was head of inspections at the Army Officer's School I in Hanover. From April to October 1957 he completed the 1st General Staff Course (H) at the Army Academy in Bad Ems in Rhineland-Palatinate , later a department of the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg.

From November 1957 to March 1961 he was G3 at the Bundeswehr School for Internal Leadership in Koblenz . As part of a competition initiated by the then school commander, Brigadier General Ulrich de Maizière (1961), he submitted several definitions for the concept of Inner Leadership that were later taken into account . In April 1961 he became commander of the field artillery battalion 325 in Schwanewede in Lower Saxony . From January 1963 he was transferred as a consultant to the command staff of the Army (FüH I 3) in Bonn , where he was entrusted with the internal leadership. From October 1966 to October 1969 he was in command of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 in Hildesheim.

He was then spokesman for the Federal Minister of Defense Helmut Schmidt and head of the information and press center and staff in Bonn. From October 1971 to March 1976 he was commander of the 2nd Jägerdivision in Marburg and Kassel . In the following month he was transferred to Ulm as commanding general of the II Corps .

In September 1980 he retired from service.

Journalism

Again and again he spoke out on military and general political issues. He was also the author of several books. From 1980 to 1984 he was editor-in-chief of the European Military Science / Defense Science Rundsehau . His journalistic legacy is in the Bundesarchiv-Military Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau.

He commented on the first traditional decree in 1965 as follows:

“When maintaining tradition, it should be noted that the tradition of certain associations (e.g. Waffen-SS) as well as traditional objects with NS emblems are out of the question for the BW. The good relationship with the allied armies must also be taken into account when making statements on maintaining tradition. "

Family and volunteering

From 1944 von Ilsemann was with Gisela von Ilsemann (1922–2012), widowed Baroness von Dörnberg and née Mundry, daughter of the managing director and first in-house counsel of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for South Hanover Wilhelm Mundry , married and father of three children. His eldest son was married to a daughter of General Ulrich de Maizière .

From 1981 to 1983 he was District Governor of the Rotary Club for Baden-Württemberg.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The Bundeswehr in a democracy. Time of inner leadership (= troops and administration . Volume 17). With an introduction by Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg , v. Deckers Verlag Schenck, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-7685-3568-1 .
  • Internal leadership in the armed forces (= The Bundeswehr . Volume 5). Walhalla / Praetoria, Regensburg 1981, ISBN 3-8029-6425-X .
  • Bundeswehr and law and freedom. Thoughts and experiences of a soldier . v. Decker, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-7685-1388-2 .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model (eds.): The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr (1955-1999). The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 2, 2: Hoffmann - Kusserow . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , pp. 486-488.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 29th edition 1990/91. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1990, ISBN 3-7950-2010-7 , p. 616.
  • Manfred Sadlowski (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the defense industry . 2nd edition, Wehr & Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Koblenz u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-8033-0293-5 , p. 75.
  • Carl-Gero von Ilsemann , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/1994 of October 10, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Rink : The Bundeswehr 1950 / 55-1989 (= military history compact . 6). DeGruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044096-6 , p. 91 f.
  2. ↑ Ilsemann, Carl-Gero von (1920-1991) , in: Central database of bequests , accessed on October 31, 2014.
  3. ^ Matthias Molt: From the Wehrmacht to the Bundeswehr. Personnel continuity and discontinuity in the development of the German armed forces 1955–1966 . Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 2007, p. 557.
  4. ^ John Zimmermann : Ulrich de Maizière, General of the Bonn Republic. 1912 to 2006 (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 12). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71300-8 , p. 429.
personal data
SURNAME Ilsemann, Carl-Gero von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ilsemann, Carl-Gero Alfred Helmuth Kurt von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenhaßlau near Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1991
Place of death New Ulm