Eberhard Graf von Nostitz

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Eberhard Artur Graf von Nostitz (born February 15, 1906 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † December 15, 1983 in Munich ) was a German officer, most recently in the rank of Brigadier General of the Reserve of the Bundeswehr , a member of the Gehlen Organization and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) as well Co-author of the Himmeroder memorandum .

Life

Promotions

Reichswehr

In 1925, Graf von Nostitz joined the 3rd (Prussian) cavalry regiment of the Reichswehr . In 1926 he passed the Fahnenjunker examination at the cavalry school in Hanover. From 1926 to 1928 he attended the Döberitz infantry school and the Hanover cavalry school. In 1928/29 he was a platoon leader in the 16th Cavalry Regiment . From 1930 to 1934 he was a company officer in the 3rd Reiter Regiment and in 1934 in the Rathenow Reiter Regiment. In 1934 he joined the 4th (Prussian) cavalry regiment as a company officer .

Wehrmacht

From 1935 to 1936 Graf von Nostitz served as a company officer in the anti-tank department 18. In 1936 he passed the military district examination and was assigned to the 4th tank regiment in the same year. From 1936 to 1937 he was company commander of the anti-tank department 18. From 1937 to 1939 he attended the general staff course at the War Academy . From November 1939 to April 1941 he was Ib of the 269th Infantry Division . From May to June 1941 he stayed in the Führerreserve . In June 1941 he was the liaison officer of the Army High Command for the 4th Panzer Group . From June 1941 to February 1942 he was Ia of the XXXXI. Army Corps . From February 1942 to May 1943 he was Ia of the 7th Panzer Division and the 1st Panzer Division . From May 1942 to February 1944 he was a teacher at the War Academy.

He was then assigned to the Panzer Group West for special use. In April 1944, he was assigned to the Chief of the Army General Staff for special use. From May to July 1944 he was on the course for senior commanders. From July to December 1944 he was Chief of the General Staff of the LVII. Panzer Corps and from December 1944 to May 1945 of the Panzer Army High Command 2 under Artillery General Maximilian de Angelis .

From 1945

After the Second World War, Graf von Nostitz became a member of the Gehlen organization, where he was known as "Keller". He came into the organization through the external organization "4711" in Frankfurt am Main , as did numerous former general staff officers of the Wehrmacht who later took up leadership positions there and in the BND. 4711 was created in late summer 1946 and was taken over by the former Colonel i. G. Hans Lutz, son of Oswald Lutz . 4711 was renamed “Generalvertretung G” (“GV G”) in July 1949 and in 1954 to “12”. She moved to Munich . In early 1956 Ulrich Freiherr von Varnbühler took over the external organization and in January 1959 Graf von Nostitz, after he had been taken over to the BND on April 1, 1956. Before that, von Nostitz was a member of the external organization in Bremen ("GV B", from 1954 "11"), which until 1956 was headed by Hans-Heinrich Worgitzky , who later became Vice President of the BND. At the beginning of 1959 the external organization was renamed "RPG".

In 1950, Graf von Nostitz belonged to the Himmeroder group of experts and in 1952 was a co-founder of the Society for Defense and Security Policy .

Count von Nostitz was married twice and had two children with his first wife Hilda Countess von Nostitz, née Rothfuchs.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. 1955 - 1999. the military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals; part VIb). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , pp. 412-413.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 54 f., 277, 451 f., 560 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Echternkamp : Soldiers in the post-war. Historical conflicts of interpretation and West German democratization 1945–1955 (=  contributions to military history . Vol. 76). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-035093-7 , p. 337.
  3. ↑ Burkhard Köster : For the love of seafaring! Vice Admiral Karl-Adolf Zenker . In: Helmut R. Hammerich , Rudolf J. Schlaffer (Hrsg.): Military development generations of the Bundeswehr 1955 to 1970. Selected biographies (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vol. 10). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70436-5 , p. 271.
personal data
SURNAME Nostitz, Eberhard Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nostitz, Eberhard Artur Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1983
Place of death Munich