Erwin Jollasse

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Erwin Jollasse (born December 8, 1892 in Hamburg , † March 14, 1987 in Tutzing , Starnberg district ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Jollasse served as an officer in the First World War . In the interwar period he worked as a pilot. In the Wehrmacht he rose to lieutenant colonel in 1938.

During World War II, he was in command of the 9th Panzer Division and the 344th Infantry Division .

At the end of the war in April 1945, Jollasse and parts of his division were moved from Ottmachau to Drebkau . In misunderstanding the actual situation, Hitler demanded that Jollasse with parts of his 344th Infantry Division near Drebkau, the remnants of the Fuehrer Accompanying Division and the SS Panzer Division Frundsberg near Spremberg (summarized under the name "Korpsgruppe Jollasse") To attack the north in order to fall into the flank of the advancing 1st Ukrainian Front , to re-establish the connection to the 9th Army ( Kessel von Halbe ) and to cut off supplies to the Soviet tank units in the south of Berlin .

With only weak units and no supplies, Jollasse was forced to order the units under his command on April 21 to move southwest towards Senftenberg in order to reconnect with allied troops. Trying to bypass or break through the lines of the opposing formations that had already enclosed his position, Jollasse's formations in the vicinity of Neupetershain were almost completely wiped out. He himself reached the Elbe with 25 men in early May 1945 and made his way to Upper Bavaria after the war.

From May 1945 to June 1947 he was a prisoner of war .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Paul : The final battle for Germany , Heyne, 1976, ISBN 3-453-00835-9 , p. 374f.
  2. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/orion47.geo/WEHRMACHT/HEER/Generalleutnant2/JOLLASSE_ERWIN.html
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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 , p. 202 .
personal data
SURNAME Jollasse, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1987
Place of death Tutzing , Starnberg district