Edgar Theisen

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Edgar Theisen (born September 19, 1890 in Aachen , † June 20, 1968 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German artillery general in World War II , later a priest and monsignor .

Life

Theisen was the son of a clerk (old name for an office clerk ). On February 20, 1908, he joined the 4th Lorraine Field Artillery Regiment No. 70 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior and was promoted to lieutenant on August 19, 1909 with seniority from August 17, 1907 . He took part in the First World War and was a captain in the General Staff of the General Command of the XI. Army Corps . For his work he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Wound Badge in silver, the Bavarian Military Merit Order IV. Class with Swords, the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross and the Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class awarded with war decoration.

After the war, Theisen was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he a. a. in the 1st (Prussian) Artillery Regiment and in the General Staff of the 1st Division in Königsberg . On April 1, 1932, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on June 1, 1934 to colonel . On May 1, 1936, he was appointed inspector of fog troops and gas defense (In 9) in the Army High Command . On October 1, 1937, he was promoted to major general.

From August 1939 he became commander of the newly formed 262nd Infantry Division . On October 1, 1939, he was promoted to lieutenant general. With the division he took part in Operation Barbarossa . For his service on the Eastern Front he received the German Cross in Gold on January 11, 1942 . From September 15, 1942 to February 21, 1944 he was commanding general of the LXI. Reserve Army Corps. On October 1, 1942, he was promoted to general of the artillery. From 4 April 1944, he was head of the Special Task Force Special Duty (for special purposes) at OB West and in the same capacity of 14 August 1944 to 26 August 1944 at the Army Group G . At the end of 1944 he was retired from active service.

After his wife Christel and his son; his older son had died in the sinking of U 107 in 1944 ; were murdered by a Soviet slave laborer after the end of the war, he began to study Catholic theology . The ordination took place in 1952 in Aachen Cathedral . In Mönchengladbach he was then pastor of the Maria Hilf hospital until 1964 . He became a prelate and was appointed monsignor by Pope Pius XII. In 1964 he resigned from his position as pastor.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Damerau: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild - Verlag, 1993, p. 16 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 150.
  3. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 310 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Reinhard Stumpf: The Wehrmacht Elite Structure of rank and origin of the German generals and admirals 1933-1945. (Military history studies), Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1982, p. 273.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, pp. 343-344.
  6. ↑ Helmut Damerau: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild, 1990, p. 94 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Theisen, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artillery general in World War II, priest and monsignor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1968
Place of death Mönchengladbach