Ernst Schlemmer

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Ernst Schlemmer (born July 8, 1889 in Wöllstein , † June 2, 1949 in Heidelberg ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general .

Life

Ernst Schlemmer, son of a senior customs officer, joined the Royal Bavarian Army as a flag junior in the fall of 1909 and joined the Royal Bavarian 18th Infantry Regiment "Prince Ludwig Ferdinand" , where he was initially an ensign , after attending the Munich War School on October 26th 1911 became a lieutenant and was used as a company officer. On October 1, 1913, he was transferred to the Schleissheim Aviation Battalion, and at the beginning of the First World War he joined the Bavarian Field Aviation Department 3b in early August 1914. Here he was then used for almost two years and promoted to lieutenant on July 9, 1915 . On May 8, 1916, he was appointed leader of Army Air Park 6, where he served on the inspection staff of the Bavarian Air Force until his transfer on July 11, 1918. He stayed here until he was transferred to the Schleissheim Air Base on July 30, 1919. He was taken over as a captain in the Reichswehr . He was retired from service on March 31, 1920 before the Reichswehr's 200,000-man transitional army was formed .

He joined the Bavarian State Police as a captain of the police and was employed by the Lindau State Police from October 1, 1922. On June 1, 1932, he was promoted to major in the Munich state police and on September 1, 1934 to the staff of III. Battalion of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment detached. He then belonged to this during the expansion of the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht and was accepted into the army as a lieutenant colonel on October 1, 1935 . He was now assigned to the regimental staff of the Mountain Infantry Regiment Munich in Kempten and on October 6, 1936, he was appointed commander of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 100 in Bad Reichenhall as the successor to Rudolf Conrad . Promoted to colonel on January 1, 1937 , he handed over his command to Hubert Lanz at the beginning of November 1938 and was appointed commander of the 137 Mountain Infantry Regiment in Lienz .

At the beginning of the Second World War in the summer of 1939, he still held this command. He then led his regiment first in the attack on Poland in the association of the 2nd Mountain Division . At the end of February 1940 he gave up his command and was appointed commander of the newly established Gebirgsjäger-Ersatz-Regiment 136 in Innsbruck. Promoted to major general here on December 1, 1940 , he gave up his command in mid-February 1941 and joined the Führerreserve. At the beginning of March 1941 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Mountain Division as the successor to Lieutenant General Valentin Feurstein . This he now led in the northernmost section of the front in Lapland. After about a year he gave up his command to Colonel Georg Ritter von Hengl and came back to the Führerreserve. At the end of August 1942 he was assigned to the German Liaison Staff in the Alpini Corps. Promoted to Lieutenant General on December 1, 1942, he returned to the Führerreserve in early February 1943. In mid-May 1943 he became commander of the newly established Division No. 418 in Klagenfurt. At the end of October 1943, he gave his command to Major General Maximilian Jais and was again transferred to the Führerreserve. At the end of November 1943 he then joined the Air Force Liaison Staff in Rome. On January 23, 1944 he was appointed commander of the Milan section staff and in mid-March 1944 commander of Oberfeldkommandantur 397 (OFK 397). He then kept this command until the end of the Second World War in spring 1945. When the Wehrmacht surrendered , he was taken prisoner by the Allies in May 1945. From this he was released on July 1, 1947. He died almost two years later.

He had married Theresia Müllereisert in 1929 and was the older brother of Hans Schlemmer , most recently general of the mountain troops.