Curt Gallenkamp

Curt Gallenkamp (born February 17, 1890 in Wesel , † April 13, 1958 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer, most recently general of the artillery in World War II .

Life

Military career

Gallenkamp joined the 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 (Princess Carl of Prussia) on March 11, 1909 as a flag junior . On October 1, 1913, he was transferred to the 1st Upper Alsace Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 . From April 1, 1914, he was used there as an adjutant in the riding department.

With the outbreak of World War I , the regiment came to the front, where Gallenkamp was wounded on October 4, 1914. A month later he was ready for duty again and returned to his regiment. On February 25, 1915, he was promoted to first lieutenant and as such he became battery leader on July 27, 1916 . Gallenkamp was commanded from August 2, 1916 to serve with the Kreewel group and two weeks later he was appointed regimental adjutant of the field artillery regiment No. 259. For five months he was on the staff of the 105th division, completed a training course in Mitau and was transferred to the General Staff of the 84th Division on April 21, 1917.

After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and served in the Reichswehr Ministry and the Army Office . In the Wehrmacht he was also active in various units and general staffs. As chief of staff from III. Army corps he took part in the attack on Poland . In September 1939 he became commander of the 78th Infantry Division and took part with her in the campaign in the west and in the war against the Soviet Union . He had been in the Führerreserve since November 1941 and in the spring of 1942 he became the commanding general of the LXXX. Army Corps appointed. In August 1944 he was replaced and returned to the Führerreserve. Gallenkamp became a prisoner of war on April 12, 1945 and later had to answer for war crimes committed.

In 1947 Gallenkamp was sentenced to death by hanging by a British military tribunal. However, his sentence was changed to life imprisonment. He was released early from prison in 1952.

family

He was brother-in-law of Kurt von Tippelskirch .

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1918) in black
Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on November 19, 1941

literature

Dermot Bradley: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945 . Volume 4, Fleck-Gyldenfeldt, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-2488-3 , pp. 177-179.

Web links

Artillery General Curt Gallenkamp. Axis Biographical Research, accessed September 21, 2010 (English, military résumé with photo).

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Lieb : Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? P.151.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 125.
↑ 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 , p. 326.

personal data
SURNAME	Gallenkamp, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently general of the artillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wesel
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1958
Place of death	Wiesbaden

[1] Peter Lieb : Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? P.151.

[Rangliste-2] Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 125.

[3] 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 , p. 326.