Carl-Gideon from Claer

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Carl-Gideon Rudolf Viktor von Claer (born July 26, 1912 in Bendorf , † January 14, 1996 in Hamburg ) was a German officer and editor of the magazine Der Spiegel .

Life

Von Claer began his military career with the cavalry and switched to a motorcycle rifle battalion in 1935 . In the Wehrmacht he was appointed lieutenant colonel i. G. First General Staff Officer of the Panzer Grenadier Division Greater Germany . In 1947 he took over reconnaissance services for the French armed forces with regard to the Soviet Army and the police units of the Soviet zone of occupation . Already in the Blank office he wrote memoranda on nuclear weapons . Later on in the German Armed Forces, he was the first officer in the German Armed Forces to be instructed in nuclear warfare on an American General Staff course at the Command and General Staff College of the US Army at Fort Leavenworth . At the command academy of the Bundeswehr , he led courses on the use of nuclear weapons for generals and staff officers. His nicknames were Atom-Claer or Atom-Baron. His last rank was Colonel i. G. In the Schwabing riots in 1962 he was injured in a traffic accident and then retired in 1964 at the age of 52 due to incapacity for work.

From 1964 he worked for Spiegel as a military correspondent. I.a. he criticized aristocratic clusters in the Bundeswehr ( Das Monokel der Army ; 1967).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B Volume XXII, Volume 115 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0815-9 , p. 70.
  2. ↑ Date: September 21, 1964 Re: tail carrier. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Armin Wagner (ed.): Spies and news dealers. Secret Service Careers in Germany 1939–1989, p. 124. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-872-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ^ Molt, p. 329.
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel of February 13, 1967: The Army's Monocle . Retrieved February 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Claer, Carl-Gideon from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claer, Carl-Gideon Rudolf Viktor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and editor of the Spiegel
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bendorf
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1996
Place of death Hamburg