Carl von Tiedemann

This article deals with Lieutenant General Carl von Tiedemann. For other people see Karl Tiedemann .

Carl von Tiedemann (1940)

Carl Gerhard Rudolf von Tiedemann (born June 28, 1878 in Labehn , † March 10, 1979 in Wentorf near Hamburg ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Tiedemann appeared on 25 March 1898 as an ensign in the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1 Pommersches) no. 2 of the Prussian army and was there on October 17, 1899. Lieutenant promoted. From December 19, 1905, he served with the 6th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 149 , became first lieutenant on September 17, 1909, and from October 1, 1912 worked as an adjutant at the Schneidemühl district command . Then he returned to the 6th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 149, where he was used as a captain in the staff of the 1st Battalion.

With the outbreak of World War I , Tiedemann was transferred to the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 34, which his previous regiment had re-established in accordance with the mobilization plan. With this regiment , he initially participated in the battles near Gumbinnen , Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes on the Eastern Front . In the further course of the war Tiedemann u. a. in the winter battle in Masuria and from October 3, 1915 was in position battles between Krewo- Smorgon - Narotsch -Tweretsch. Detached from the front in December 1916 and transported to the West , from mid-January 1917 he was involved in trench warfare in Flanders and Artois . The spring battle at Arras followed from April to mid-May . Relocated to Champagne in July , Tiedemann fought here near Verdun and from October in the Argonne . At times he was active in the staff of the 80th Reserve Division . Only at the end of March 1918 did he and his regiment go on the offensive during the Great Battle of France . After the German attack ceased, he was mostly engaged in position and retreat battles. For his achievements during the war he had been awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords, the Wound Badge in Black and the Hanseatic Cross of the City of Hamburg. Tiedemann was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

After the end of the war , returning home and demobilizing his regiment, Tiedemann was transferred back to West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 149 in early 1919. After this regiment had also been demobilized, Tiedemann joined a free formation . He was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr and assigned to the 4th Reichswehr Rifle Regiment. With the formation of the army Tiedemann was a company commander in the Infantry Regiment 4 and with promotion to Major on April 1, 1922 in the headquarters of the 2nd Division of Szczecin added. In August 1925 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 17th Infantry Regiment . In this position, promoted to lieutenant colonel on February 1, 1928 , Tiedemann was transferred to the staff of the 9th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in March 1929 and appointed commander of the guard regiment of the Berlin Command in October of the same year . Promoted to colonel on 1 February 1931 Tiedemann resigned 31 January 1932 under the simultaneous presentation of the character as a major general from active military service.

However, he was reactivated five months later on July 1, 1932. Here he initially served as a civilian on the staff of Infantry Leader II in Schwerin . On October 1, 1933, Tiedemann was reactivated for active military service, where he served as the commander of the military district of Labes until April 1936 . Then he was Landwehr commander of Stargard in Pomerania and received on October 1, 1937 the patent for his rank as major general.

In the course of the general mobilization in August 1939, Tiedemann was appointed commander of the 207th Infantry Division , with which he then advanced as far as Gdynia during the attack on Poland . After the end of the Blitzkrieg against Poland, the division remained there as an occupying power until December 1939 . Here Tiedemann was promoted to lieutenant general on November 1, 1939. Then his division was moved to Westphalia to secure the border , where it was involved in the seat war . At the beginning of the campaign in the west , the division under Tiedemann marched via Holland to shortly before Paris . After the end of the campaign, the division was transferred back to Germany and in August 1940 split up and "on leave".

In the course of the upcoming Balkan campaign , the division under Tiedemann, now as the 207th Security Division , was re-established and was involved in the Eastern campaign from June 1941 . As part of Army Group North, she was primarily responsible for security tasks in the rear army area , but also in the defensive battles against enemy formations that broke through into the rear army area in the winter of 1941/42 and Russian partisans. From October 11 to November 11, 1941, Tiedemann was the deputy commander of the Rear Army Area North, as the commander Franz von Roques briefly had a front command. At the beginning of 1942 he stated that the partisans should be treated as soldiers and suggested a different, "all too humane" treatment instead of being shot. These statements were taken as criticism of the government and seen as disintegration. The process was recorded in the Reich Security Main Office . On January 1, 1943, Tiedemann, like some other senior officers from the division commander up, was transferred to the Führer Reserve on the Eastern Front and handed over command of the 207th Security Division to Lieutenant General Erich Hofmann . As part of the “Winter Resistance” campaign, the Army Personnel Office transferred those generals “who are unlikely to be able to cope with the high demands of the Russian winter” to the Führer reserve. Tiedemann received no new command. On April 30, 1943, he was retired from active military service.

Carl von Tiedemann is the father of the television actor and presenter Carlo von Tiedemann , who was born in 1943 and is from his third marriage to Fides von Kleist (1910–1980). The grave of Tiedemanns is on the Ev. Cemetery in Wankendorf (Amt Bokhorst-Wankendorf).

literature

• Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 .
• Jörn Hasenclever: Wehrmacht and occupation policy in the Soviet Union. The commanders of the rear army areas 1941–1943. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76709-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 2: Reserve and Landwehr Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902526-52-6 , p. 51.
2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 132.
3. ↑ Jürgen Kilian: Wehrmacht and Occupation in the Russian Northwest 1941-1944: Practice and Everyday Life in the Military Administrative Area of ​​Army Group North . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012, ISBN 978-3-657-77613-9 , p. 547 ( google.de [accessed December 30, 2018]).