Eugen Ott (General of the Infantry)

Eugen Ott (born May 20, 1890 in Sinzig in the Ahrweiler district ; † August 11, 1966 in Hohenschäftlarn near Munich ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry in World War II .

Life

Eugen Ott was the son of Alfred Ott (1846–1924), mayor and later honorary citizen of Sinzig.

He served as an officer in the First World War . In the Wehrmacht he was an infantry inspector (In 2) in Berlin from mid-1938 to July 1939 and then led the 7th Infantry in the Second World War from August 1939 to September 1939 as a commander with the rank of major general (promotion at the beginning of March 1938). Division with which he took part in the attack on Poland . From the end of March 1941 to the middle of May 1941 he was only leader of the XXX. Army Corps and then in the same function but now as General of the Infantry from October to December 1941 for the XI. Army Corps . This was followed by his assignment as commanding general of the LII until October 1943 . Army Corps (including participation in the 1942 summer offensive , the North Caucasian operation and the Citadel operation ). From 1944 until the end of the war he was inspector of the Italian associations.

At the end of December 1942 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

Individual evidence

^ Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939 . Biblio Verlag, 1990, p. 767 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).
^ Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . In: German Order of Battle . tape 1 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 44 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).
^ Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939 . Biblio Verlag, 1990, p. 827 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).
↑ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1944-1945 . Volume I, No. 7 . Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3-88199-073-8 , pp. 498 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).
↑ 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	Ott, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently General of the Infantry in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sinzig , Ahrweiler district
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1966
Place of death	Hohenschäftlarn near Munich

[1] Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939 . Biblio Verlag, 1990, p. 767 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).

[2] Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . In: German Order of Battle . tape 1 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 44 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).

[3] Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Armies 1815-1939 . Biblio Verlag, 1990, p. 827 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).

[4] Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1944-1945 . Volume I, No. 7 . Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3-88199-073-8 , pp. 498 ( google.de [accessed on March 1, 2020]).

[5] 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 .