Guide reserve

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The Führerreserve was a reserve set up by the higher command levels of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War of temporarily unemployed officers ("Führer") who were waiting for a new assignment.

The high command of the armed forces , the army groups and armies each had their own reserve leaders, the use of which they could decide at their own discretion. Especially in the second half of the war, more and more officers who were politically unpopular or accused of military incapacity were transferred to the Führer Reserve. Members of the Führerreserve had to stay at a place of work assigned to them and make it available to their superiors, but were not allowed to exercise any commands. This was equivalent to a temporary retirement while retaining the previous earnings.

The duration of the transfers ranged from a few days ( Helmuth Weidling ), months ( Walter Model ) to several years ( Walther von Brauchitsch ), if the decision had been made not to continue using the officer in question, but also not to remove him To dismiss Wehrmacht.

literature

  • High Command of the Army, General Staff of the Army: holdings RH 2 , volumes 1–2. Verlag Bundesarchiv, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-891-9201-3X , pp. 70, 117, 125.