Emil Vogel

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Emil Wilhelm Vogel (born July 20, 1894 in Zwickau , † October 1, 1985 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the mountain troops in World War II .

Life

Emil Vogel joined the army at the beginning of August 1914 as a flag junior . In mid-1915 he was promoted to lieutenant with the Royal Bavarian 2nd Pioneer Battalion in Speyer with a patent in November 1913 . He served as an officer in the First World War and after its end moved to various volunteer corps . After its dissolution, he was accepted into the Reichswehr .

In the Wehrmacht at the end of 1937, in August of the same year, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, first general staff officer (Ia) in the VII Army Corps and remained so until September 1939. Then he was Ia in the border section command north and was made colonel there in December 1939 promoted. This was followed from May 1940 as Chief of the General Staff of the Deputy General Command of the 1st Army Corps and from late October 1940 to late June 1942 in the same position at the XX. Army Corps . As a commander, he led the 101st Jäger Division on the Eastern Front from September 1942 . In October 1942 he was promoted to major general and in April 1943 to lieutenant general. From August 1944 until the end of the Second World War, Vogel headed the XXXVI as commanding general in Norway . Mountain Corps . At the beginning of November 1944 he was promoted to general of the mountain troops. He went into British captivity, was housed on Iceland Farm and was released from captivity in 1947. For the US Army he later wrote the report P-149/74 Attack by the 101st Infantry Division across the western foothills of the Causasus Mountains southwest of Maikop , September 25-27, 1942 .

Until his death he was active in the Society for Military Studies , Coburg section .

His estate, including his personal war diary, is archived in the Federal Archives in Freiburg .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Wolf Keilig : The German Army 1939-1945. Structure, commitment, staffing. 3 volumes (loose-leaf work). Podzun-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1956, p. 350.
  • Peter Stockert: The oak leaf bearers 1940–1945. 4th revised edition. Bad Friedrichshall 2010–2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 249 + 250 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ European military science, Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau. P. 630 , accessed August 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 760.
  4. ↑ The archive; Reference book for politics, economics, culture . 1944, p. 106 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Emil Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general of the mountain troops in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1985
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr