Carl Rodenburg

Carl Rodenburg (born May 17, 1894 in Geestemünde ; † November 5, 1992 in Greven ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in World War II .

Life

In 1912 he joined the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 and took part in the First World War. At the surrender he held the rank of first lieutenant .

After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and was, among other things, company commander in the 14th (Baden) Infantry Regiment and commander of the 12th Infantry Regiment . Later, when he was already in the Wehrmacht , he was a lieutenant colonel in command of the teaching staff at the Döberitz infantry school .

During the Second World War he fought as commander of the 203 infantry regiment in the western campaign (1940) in the Verdun and Toul area, among others . With this regiment he was also deployed on the Eastern Front from 1941, where, among other things, he achieved a crossing over the Dnieper and broke through the Stalin line .

In early 1942, as major general, he was in command of the 76th Infantry Division , which fought in Stalingrad , among other places . On October 8, 1942, Carl Rodenburg received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and on January 31, 1943 the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross. On the same day he went with Paulus into Soviet captivity. In October 1955 Rodenburg was released from captivity.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with swords
Hanseatic Cross Bremen
Wound badge (1918) in black
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
German cross in gold on March 7, 1942
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
- Knight's Cross on October 8, 1942
- Oak leaves on January 31, 1943 (189th award)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ranking list of the German Imperial Army , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 145
↑ ^a ^b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 633.

personal data
SURNAME	Rodenburg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH	5th November 1992
Place of death	Greven

[RL-1] Ranking list of the German Imperial Army , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 145

[RKT-2] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 633.