Egon von Neindorff (General)

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Egon von Neindorff (born September 12, 1892 in Koblenz , † April 15, 1944 died in Tarnopol ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

origin

His parents were the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Egon Caesar Waldemar von Neindorff (1848-1917) and his wife Auguste von Langendorff . His brother Erich (1894-1993) later became SA-Oberführer and politician of the NSDAP .

Military career

Egon von Neindorff joined the army as an ensign at the end of November 1911 and served as an officer in the First World War , in 1917 as a lieutenant (promotion on August 9, 1912) and adjutant in the 1st Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion No. 12 .

After the end of the war he switched to the Reichswehr and worked as an officer in various units. Around 1932 he was in the 11th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment . In the Wehrmacht he served as the commander of various infantry units during World War II . From July 1942 he was in command of the 1st Fortress Brigade in Crete . From September 1942 to May 1943 he was employed as commander of the 189th Infantry Division , and from December 1942 in the rank of major general. In early May 1943 he briefly led the newly established 356th Infantry Division . He took over the 216th Infantry Division from May 1943. From late October to early November 1943, the command of the 137th Infantry Division, which was in the process of being dissolved, followed . The resulting Corps Division E was also under his command. From December 1943 to January 1944 he was commander of the 6th Infantry Division . His successor was Colonel Alexander Conrady . For three days in mid-January 1944 he was in command of the 36th Infantry Division , which he again handed over to Colonel Alexander Conrady.

On March 22, 1944, he was appointed commander of the Tarnopol Fixed Place and, if necessary, was to hold the city to the last man. On March 23, he reported: “I also report that, due to insufficient ammunition stocks, the requirements for a permanent location are not sufficient. Likewise, the all-round expansion is unfinished […] The requirements for a permanent place therefore do not apply to Tarnopol. ” Nevertheless, Hitler refused to give up the city, which was then demanded by Army Group South . He fell on April 15, 1944 while 700 soldiers still capable of fighting tried to break out of the city. His successor as commandant of the Tarnopo Festival Square, Colonel Carl-August von Schönfeld , fell a day later. Of the original 4,600 soldiers in the city, only 55 soldiers were able to reach the German lines in the end.

Posthumously he was promoted to lieutenant general.

family

He was married to Marie, b. Hofmann, with whom he had two children, including the son of the same name Egon von Neindorff (1923-2004).

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Peter Stockert: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945 , 9 volumes, 4th revised edition, Bad Friedrichshall 2010–2011.
  • Wolfgang Keilig : The Generals of the Army 1939–1945 . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 .
  • Gerd Fricke: "Fester Platz" Tarnopol 1944 (2nd edition), Verlag Rombach, Freiburg / Breisgau 1986 (= individual publications on the military history of the Second World War, Vol. 4), ISBN 3-7930-0160-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Gerhard von Seemen: The Knight Cross, 1939-1945: the Knight Cross of all Wehrmacht parts diamond, sword and oak leaves in the order of the award: Appendix with award provisions and further information . Podzun-Verlag, 1976, p. 44 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  2. ^ Germany Reichswehr Ministry: Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1912, p. 198 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Saxony (Kingdom) War Ministry: Ranking list of the Royal Saxon Army . Rammingschen Buchdruckerei., 1913, p. 192 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Military weekly: independent magazine for the German armed forces . Mittler, 1917, p. 4447 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the German Imperial Army . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1932, p. 135 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  6. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . In: German Order of Battle . tape 1 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 240 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  7. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . In: German Order of Battle . tape 2 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 65 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  8. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . In: German Order of Battle . tape 1 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 190 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  9. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . In: German Order of Battle . tape 1 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 43 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Gerd Fricke: "Fester Platz" Tarnopol 1944 , Freiburg / Breisgau 1986, p. 70.
  11. ↑ a b Gerhard von Seemen: The Knight's Cross, 1939-1945: the Knight's Cross of all Wehrmacht parts diamond, sword and oak leaves in the order of the award: Appendix with award provisions and further information . Podzun-Verlag, 1976, p. 250 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
  12. ↑ www.familie-von-neindorff.de/stammbaum ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familie-von-neindorff.de
  13. ↑ Veit Scherzer : The 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 .
  14. ↑ The archive; Reference book for politics, economics, culture . 1944, p. 31 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Neindorff, Egon von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1944
Place of death Tarnopoly