Erich Domaschk

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Erich Domaschk (* 19th May 1908 in Luckau ; † 14. February 1974 in Bochum ) was a German officer of the Wehrmacht in World War II , resistance fighters against the Nazis in the National Committee for a Free Germany (NKFD) and co-founder of the League of German Officers (BDO).

Life

Domaschk was born in Luckau in Lower Lusatia in 1908 as the son of a postal assistant. He joined the Reichswehr at the age of 18 , interrupted his service after two years in order to begin studying natural sciences at the Albertus University in Königsberg in East Prussia . There Domaschk became a member of the Germania fraternity in the summer semester of 1928 .

Wehrmacht officer

In 1937 Domaschk was accepted into the Wehrmacht and promoted to lieutenant . In 1939 he was involved with the 3rd (motorbike rifle) company / reconnaissance division 1 in the Polish campaign , where he was awarded the Iron Cross II class, and in 1940 in the French campaign .

On December 1, he was promoted to captain and became battalion commander in the 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment. As such, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class in the 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union .

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of the tractor factory in which Domaschk's battalion was

In the battle of Stalingrad Domaschk was captain in command of the III. Battalion of the 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment. Among other things, he and his battalion were involved in the capture of the tractor factory in October 1942, where he and his soldiers reached the Volga , which the OKW reports as a resounding success in the Battle of Stalingrad has been. He was also involved in the subsequent battles over the bread factory ; In a dramatic operation, his battalion almost reached the Volga again after overcoming the Soviet first line of defense. On November 3, 1942, Domaschk was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

From 22 November, the German troops in Stalingrad were completely by Soviet troops encircled . In January 1943 Domaschk became the commandant of the Einsatzgruppe of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Regiment 103 and was entrusted with the organization of the resistance at the Pitomnik airfield .

Captivity and NKFD

In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Stalingrad , was first interned in POW camp 97 in Yelabuga and then transferred to Krasnogorsk . There he committed himself to the NKFD's manifesto. In September 1943 he was a co-founder of the Association of German Officers, after he had already been very active in its 14-member initiative group, and co-signer of the “Appeal to the German Generals and Officers! To the people and the Wehrmacht! ” From September 12, 1943.

By order of the OKH on December 23, 1944, Domaschk was "temporarily" released from active military service together with 19 other officers who were in Soviet prisoner-of-war custody to conduct proceedings before the People's Court .

After his return from captivity to Germany in 1951, Erich Domaschk worked as a department manager in a vehicle factory in Bochum. In 1974 he died in Bochum.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical lexicon of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 251-252.
  • Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz : My decision: memories from the Second World War and the anti-fascist resistance struggle. German military publisher , East Berlin 1963.
  • Gottfried Hamacher : Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement: short biographies. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-32002941-X . P. 47.
  • Hans Wijers: Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin. Stackpole, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8117-3442-4 .
  • Hans Wijers: Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army. Stackpole, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8117-1089-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burschenschaft Germania Königsberg zu Hamburg (Ed.): 125 years old Königsberg Burschenschaft Germania: 1843–1968. Hamburg 1968. p. 144.
  2. ^ David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009. pp. 393-395.
  3. ↑ a b David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009. p. 491
  4. ↑ Veit Scherzer : 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 , p. 277.
  5. ↑ Birgit Petrick: “Free Germany”, the newspaper of the National Committee “Free Germany” (1943–1945) . Saur, Munich 1979. p. 303.
  6. ↑ Alexander Fischer : The Military Resistance against Hitler and the Nazi Regime 1933-1945 , Mittler , 1984, p. 191 Online
  7. ↑ Leonid Resin: General between the fronts: Walter von Seydlitz in Soviet captivity and imprisonment from 1943 to 1955 . Edition q, 1995. p. 63.
  8. ^ Gottfried Hamacher : Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the movement "Free Germany": short biographies . Karl Dietz, Berlin 2005. p. 47. ( pdf )
  9. ^ Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich. Volume VI: December 19, 1941 to May 9, 1945. Harald Boldt, Boppard 1995. ISBN 3-7646-1940-6 . P. 547.
personal data
SURNAME Domaschk, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckau
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1974
Place of death Bochum