Erich Denecke

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Erich Denecke (born October 18, 1885 in Dresden , † March 7, 1963 in Darmstadt ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Denecke joined the Imperial Navy as a volunteer in early 1904 . He later switched to the army . He served in World War I and had various positions in infantry units, such as B. Company commander and staff officer .

In the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht , he served in various roles, especially as a staff officer. In 1937 he was chief of Army Service 2 ( Deutsch-Krone ) and in 1938 chief of Army Service 6 ( Regensburg ). He then succeeded Major General Ludwig Müller Landwehr Commander Darmstadt .

He was appointed commander of the newly formed 246th Infantry Division on September 1, 1939 . On December 13, 1941, he was promoted to Lieutenant General on December 1, 1939, replaced by Lieutenant General Maximilian Siry and transferred to the Führer Reserve. From December 29, 1941, he was in command of Smolensk until July 10, 1942. From September 28, 1942, until February 1945, he was in command of the 471st Division , a replacement unit in Military District XI in Hanover . This division was later also called Denecke Infantry Division . Then briefly in the Führerreserve , shortly before the end of the war, Denecke was deployed as KoRück PzAOK 3 of the 3rd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front.

After the German surrender, Denecke was taken prisoner by the British; also at POW Island Farm ; from which he was released in October 1947.

Amazingly, there is no information about awards in World War II. During the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and in 1917 was made a Knight of the Military Order of St. Henry .

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  • War diary of the "Gneisenau Division" of Wehrkreis XI (Denecke Division) - 549th People's Grenadier Division , Hildesheim, 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Denecke  in the German Digital Library
  2. ^ A b 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. 292 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  3. ^ 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. 136 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  4. ↑ HStAD inventory F 29 No. 11 - Collection of printed an ... - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Denecke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1963
Place of death Darmstadt