Christian Philipp

Lieutenant General Christian Philipp (1942)

Christian Philipp (born September 3, 1893 in Michelfeld , † October 16, 1963 in Unterleinleiter ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in World War II .

Life

Visit of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Norwegian Territories Josef Terboven (center) on the front line, Carlo Otte (left) and Philipp (right), July 1942.

Christian Philipp joined the 3rd Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as a volunteer in August 1914 and served as an officer in the First World War . At the end of 1915 he was a lieutenant in the 6th Infantry Regiment .

After the end of the war he was accepted into the Epp Freikorps , retired from the army in mid-1920 and taken over by the Bavarian State Police .

At the beginning of October 1935 he was accepted as a major in the Wehrmacht . From August 1938 to mid-1939 he was battalion commander in the newly formed Mountain Infantry Regiment 138 in Graz , which was subordinate to the 3rd Mountain Division . At the beginning of September 1937 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and took part in the Polish and Western campaigns. He was then promoted to Colonel in early September 1940, commander of the 524 Infantry Regiment. The regiment was used in the Russian campaign and for its leadership he was awarded the German Cross in Gold. One year later, he took command of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 138.

In mid-January 1942 he was promoted to major general and commander of the 6th Mountain Division . The division was in Finland and there formed the northern wing of the Mountain Corps Norway . In early 1943 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In mid-August 1944 he handed over command of the 6th Mountain Division to Major General Max-Josef Pemsel . From September 1, 1944 to April 1, 1945 he was then commander of the 8th Jäger Division . The division fought under him in Ukraine , the Carpathians and Slovakia . He was awarded the Knight's Cross for leading the division. He was then deputy commander of the XXIX. Army Corps .

At the end of the war he was taken prisoner of war .

After his release, he was state chairman of the Kyffhäuserbund from 1955 to 1957 and then became involved in the German Soldiers 'and Warriors' Association in Bavaria . Together with Dietrich Freiherr von Stetten and Lieutenant General a. D. August Wittmann he had committed himself to transferring the assets of the NS-Reichskriegerbund Kyffhäuser back to the state-recognized successor society Bayerische Kameradschaft im Kyffhäuserbund (BKB) and in 1960 reached an agreement with the Free State. In 1961 he was the first president of the German Soldiers and Warriors Association in Bavaria until his death. Previously he was already co-president under General der Infantry a. D. Otto Stapf .

literature

Wolfgang Keilig : The generals of the army. Podzun, 1956, p. 250.

Web links

Jürgen Reichardt : History of the Bavarian Soldiers' Union . Association work manual.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1918) in gold
Finnish Order of the Freedom Cross Knight's Cross with Swords
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
Infantry Assault Badge
German cross in gold on October 27, 1941
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 11, 1945

Individual evidence

^ Rainer Sippenauer: Combat commander in Leipzig: Hans von Poncet . R. Sippenauer, 2004, p. 19 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 272 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 242 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
↑ Ulla-Britta Vollhardt: History Policy in the Free State of Bavaria: The House of Bavarian History: Idea, Debate, Institutionalization . H. Utz, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8316-0235-3 , pp. 179 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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 .

↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 276 .

personal data
SURNAME	Philipp, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Michelfeld
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1963
Place of death	Lower leash

[1] Rainer Sippenauer: Combat commander in Leipzig: Hans von Poncet . R. Sippenauer, 2004, p. 19 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

[2] Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 272 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

[3] Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 242 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

[4] Ulla-Britta Vollhardt: History Policy in the Free State of Bavaria: The House of Bavarian History: Idea, Debate, Institutionalization . H. Utz, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8316-0235-3 , pp. 179 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).

[5] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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 .

[6] Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 276 .