Ernst Haeckel (General)

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Ernst Haeckel , also Ernst Haeckel , (born April 5, 1890 in Gemünden am Main , † September 26, 1967 ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general .

Life

Ernst Haeckel served as an officer in the First World War . After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr .

In the army he served as commander of the Second World War from November 1940 to April 1942, the 263rd Infantry Division with which he, inter alia, in the Battle of Białystok-Minsk , the Battle of Smolensk and the battle of Moscow fought. From May 1942 until its dissolution in May 1943 he was in command of the 158th Reserve Division . For this division, he complained that the division members only 50% of German nationals were and demanded an equal distribution among the replacement divisions around the "Eindeutschungsprozess" easier. In August 1944 he took over the newly established 16th Infantry Division , which had emerged from the 158th Reserve Division. He led them from the Bay of Biscay to Dijon to fight the advancing US forces. Shortly before the end of the war, he took over command of the 471st replacement division from Erich Denecke .

Works

After the end of the war he prepared military studies for the Americans, which are available in the NARA :

  • The campaign in the Rhineland 9/15 - Beg. Dec. 44 . MS B-452
  • 16th Infantry Division (June - September 13, 1944) . MS B-245

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr : German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 311 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  2. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 208 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Peter Lieb : Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg ?: Warfare and Fight against Partisans in France 1943/44 . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70741-0 , p. 105 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  4. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 59 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  5. ↑ United States Dept of the Army Office of Military History: United States Army in World War II. Historical Division, Department of the Army, 1947, p. 189 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: 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]).
  7. ↑ Harry Yeide: Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies . MBI Publishing Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7603-4592-4 , pp. 496 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  8. ^ World War II German Military Studies: Part I. Introduction and guide . Garland Pub., 1979, ISBN 978-0-8240-4300-1 , pp. 2 ( google.de [accessed on November 16, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer: Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  10. ↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .
  11. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Häckel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haeckel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1967