Franz Barckhausen

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Franz Barckhausen (born December 21, 1882 in Wittingen , † May 3, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German artillery general in World War II .

Life

First World War

Barckhausen joined the field artillery regiment "von Clausewitz" (1st Oberschlesisches) No. 21 of the Prussian Army in mid-1901 as a flag junior and in 1902 attended the war school in Danzig . In mid-January 1903 he was appointed lieutenant . At the beginning of 1911 he was appointed adjutant of the I. Department and in this capacity promoted to first lieutenant the following year . In 1913 Barckhausen rose to regimental adjutant and took part in the First World War in this capacity .

At the beginning of 1915 he became captain in charge of a battery and in the middle of the year was given command of the second division of the regiment. From July 1915 on he was again chief of a battery for a year, then for a short time adjutant of the 12th Field Artillery Brigade and one month later switched to the staff of the 12th Infantry Division as an orderly officer .

At the beginning of 1917 Barckhausen was commander of the 1st division in the field artillery regiment "von Clausewitz" (1st Oberschlesisches) No. 21 and from April 1917 attended the field war school in Unduli at the same time. Staff assignments followed in the 16th Infantry Division and the 32nd Infantry Brigade , until he returned to his regiment in mid-1918 as a department commander. In addition to both classes of the Iron Cross , Barckhausen received the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords.

Between the world wars

After the war Barckhausen was taken over into the provisional Reichswehr and in 1920 was in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 8, after the formation of the Reichswehr then in the 3rd (Prussian) Artillery Regiment . Here he acted as battery chief and came to Berlin in February 1926 with a promotion to major in the Reichswehr Ministry . He worked in the Army Weapons Office until autumn 1929 , then was entrusted with the command of the 1st Prussian Driving Department in Königsberg and in this position was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1930 . Released from his command in mid-1931, he was reassigned to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin. He is appointed chief of the Army Supply Department. At the beginning of 1933 he was appointed colonel and at the beginning of 1934 he first became a field witness inspector, and in 1935 he was an army field inspector . He was promoted to major general in April 1936. In 1938 he was at the disposal of the OKH . After his promotion to Lieutenant General in 1938, Barckhausen was appointed authorized representative of OKW at the Skoda Group in Prague and Pilsen in 1939 . As such, he cut exports from Czechoslovakia to Russia noticeably and to the annoyance of the Russians.

Second World War

Shortly before the start of the Second World War , he was appointed head of the German military mission in Slovakia in May 1939 and was transferred to the Führer Reserve shortly before the end of the year . In November 1939 he was appointed armaments inspector "Upper East" in Cracow and in June 1940 armaments inspector in Northern France. In July 1940 he was appointed head of the French military and armaments staff and from July 1942 he was also head of the main traffic control for France and Belgium in Paris . As an armaments inspector, Albert Speer rated him “good, maybe even very good”.

In mid-1943 he was promoted to general of the artillery. From the beginning of April 1943 to the end of July 1943 he was reassigned to the Führer Reserve and sent to Paris for special tasks. At the end of August 1943 he was released from active service. When he left, he was awarded the German Cross in Silver.

Franz Barckhausen was married to Eva von König (* 1890).

Fonts (selection)

  • The German defense and armaments industry in France from July 3rd, 1940 to March 31st, 1943. NARA T 77/1221.
  • with Michel and Boelck: Guidelines for raw material registration . Deployment and removal in the territory of the head of the military administration in France. 1940.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Karl Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abberger – Bitthorn. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 , p. 194.
  • Wolfgang Keilig : The generals of the army. Podzun, 1956, p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Umbreit: Contributions to the military and war history . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1977 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  2. ^ Gabriel Gorodetsky: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1991: A Retrospective . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-20181-4 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  3. ^ Charles D. Pettibone: THE ORGANIZATION AND ORDER OF BATTLE OF MILITARIES IN WORLD WAR II . Trafford Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4907-3386-9 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  4. ^ Robert Seidel: German occupation policy in Poland: the Radom district 1939-1945 . Schöningh, 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75628-2 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  5. ^ Chad Benjamin Denton: Metal to Munitions: Requisitions and Resentment in Wartime France . University of California, Berkeley, 2009 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
  6. ^ Dietrich Eichholtz: History of the German War Economy 1939-1945 . Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-096489-9 ( google.de [accessed February 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Barckhausen, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the artillery
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittingen
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1956
Place of death Berlin