Ernst Nobis

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Ernst Nobis (born October 18, 1901 in Graz , † March 7, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer , most recently a colonel in World War II .

Life

In 1928, at the age of 27, Ernst Nobis joined the Austrian Armed Forces for the Styrian Alpine Hunter Regiment Field Marshal Daun No. 9 in Graz . He graduated from the military academy and left the army in 1933 as a lieutenant .

In October 1936 he was called up for a general staff course at the Command for Higher Officer Courses in Vienna. He visited this together with later Austrian generals August Rüling and Paul Lube, among others .

He could through the takeover of the federal army Wehrmacht training to staff officer did not finish in Vienna and was a lieutenant transferred to the Wehrmacht. In order to complete his training as a general staff officer, he then visited the Berlin War Academy together with other participants in the unfinished Vienna general staff course, such as Erwin Fussenegger or Werner Vogl . Through these courses he was able to develop extensive contacts, which were later still helpful to him. Since then he has also had a close comradeship with Robert Bernardis and Leo Waldmüller . From 1938 he was a member of the NSR .

Ernst Nobis was only on the staff of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 138 in the 3rd Mountain Division , took part in the Polish campaign, received the Iron Cross II class and was promoted to captain . He became the commander of a battalion in the 97th Infantry Division and was able to fend off a counter-attack by Soviet troops on the Eastern Front . In early 1942 he was awarded the Knight's Cross for this. Then he was promoted "preferentially", including in the spring of 1942 to Major i. G. and already in September 1942 to lieutenant colonel i. G.

In July 1942 he took over command of the newly established Jäger Regiment 204 in the 97th Jäger Division . This regiment was as a battle group Nobis (or Gefechtsgruppe Nobis ) in the Caucasus used. There, the combat group distinguished itself under his leadership, including the advance into the Pschisch Valley and joining the 101st Jäger Division . On December 1, 1942, badly wounded in previous skirmishes, he was promoted to colonel after only three months with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was then appointed lieutenant colonel i. G. was awarded the oak leaf for leading the combat group in the battles around Troitskoye at the end of 1942.

In 1944 he was a military attaché in Finland . Then Nobis was the commander of the army school for staff officers in Güstrow until the end of the war . In addition, he had received the order to gather troops in Güstrow and defend the city. For this purpose, the so-called Infantry Division Güstrow was quickly set up at the end of 1945 and placed under his command.

At the same time he was the site commander of Güstrow, and until shortly before the end of the war he defended the National Socialist sentiments and their slogans for perseverance. Even a delegation from Güstrow pastor Sibrand Sieger and General a. D. Wilhelm Ulex could not persuade Nobis to surrender the city without a fight. Rather, he threatened Ulex with a court martial . The former site commander Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Hans-Heinrich Staudinger was ultimately able to persuade Nobis to withdraw the German troops.

Captivity followed at the end of the war . As a prisoner of war he was appointed commander of a prisoner division.

After his release from captivity, he was up to the establishment of the second Austrian army in the industry operates. In 1956 he was accepted with a "civilian status" as a senior administrative councilor in the federal army at the General Troop Inspectorate of the Army Administration as a teacher and trainer. Despite the supreme paragraph , he was accepted as one of 16 officers of the former Wehrmacht. Together with Erwin Fussenegger, he also attended a general staff course in the second armed forces.

At the crisis summit for the student demonstrations in Hungary in November 1956, Nobis took part in a kind of uniform in the purely military event under Erwin Fussenegger and Ferdinand Graf . Subsequently, he worked as a tactics and history teacher at the general staff courses. He was promoted to court counselor in 1962 and was supposed to be in command of the Theresian Military Academy . In 1963 he died of a heart attack while on duty .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bastian Matteo Scianna: Rebuilding of Austrian Army: The army's founding generation and the Wehrmacht Past . Was in History , Vol. 26 (1), 2019, p. 116.
  2. ↑ Hubert Zeinar: History of the Austrian General Staff . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77415-0 , p. 715 ( google.de [accessed on May 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Ludwig F. Jedlicka: July 20th, 1944 in Austria . Munich, Herold, 1966, p. 39 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Florian Berger: Knight's Cross in the Austrian Armed Forces 1955 - 1985 . Self-rel. F. Berger, 2003, ISBN 978-3-9501307-2-0 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  5. ^ Wilhelm Tieke: The Caucasus and the Oil: The German Soviet. War in the Caucasus 1942/43 . Munin-Verlag, 1970, p. 293 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Tieke: The Caucasus and the Oil: The German-Soviet War in the Caucasus 1942/43 . JJ Fedorowicz Pub., 1995, ISBN 978-0-921991-23-6 , pp. 73 ( google.de [accessed on May 20, 2020]).
  7. ^ Wilhelm Tieke: The Caucasus and the Oil: The German-Soviet War in the Caucasus 1942/43 . JJ Fedorowicz Pub., 1995, ISBN 978-0-921991-23-6 , pp. 204 ( google.de [accessed on May 20, 2020]).
  8. ^ Ernst Ott: Jäger am Feind: History and sacrifice of the 97th Jäger Division 1940-1945 . Comradeship of the Spielhahnjäger e. V., 1966, p. 230 ( google.de [accessed on May 20, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Karl Heinz Jahnke: You must not be forgotten !: Resistance against the Nazi dictatorship in Mecklenburg 1933-1945 . BS-Verlag-Rostock, in cooperation with Ingo Koch Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-938686-01-0 , p. 233 ( google.de [accessed on May 20, 2020]).
  10. ^ A b Articles on the history of the workers' movement: BZG. Dietz Verlag, 1995, p. 93 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  11. ^ Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich . H. Boldt, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7646-1920-6 , pp. 250 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  12. ^ 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. 215 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  13. ^ A b Elise Langfeld: Güstrow in the 20th Century: History and Stories of a Mecklenburg Small Town: with a complete first print of the memories of old houses and their inhabitants in our dear Güstrow . Edition Temmen, 2001, ISBN 978-3-86108-760-1 , p. 262 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  14. ^ Karl Heinz Jahnke: Resistance against the Nazi dictatorship in Mecklenburg: in memory of the women and men who were murdered between 1933 and 1945 . Büro + Service, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89954-227-1 , p. 68 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  15. ^ Karl Heinz Stüber: All dusend Johr episodes from the church history of Mecklenburg. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Berlin, 1986, p. 188.
  16. ↑ a b c Bundesheer - TRUPPENDIENST - Edition 6/2009 - The "Supreme Paragraph". Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Bastian Matteo Scianna: Rebuilding of Austrian Army: The army's founding generation and the Wehrmacht Past . Was in History , Vol. 26 (1), 2019, p. 109.
  18. ↑ Florian Berger: Knight's Cross in the Austrian Armed Forces 1955 - 1985 . Self-rel. F. Berger, 2003, ISBN 978-3-9501307-2-0 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  19. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Nobis, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, most recently colonel in the Wehrmacht in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1963
Place of death Vienna