Franz Schlieper

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Franz Max Schlieper (born August 22, 1905 in Berlin-Friedenau ; † April 4, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German officer , most recently major general of the Wehrmacht .

Life

Franz Schlieper was the younger brother of Fritz Schlieper . At the end of 1925, Schlieper joined the 13th (Württ.) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr as a flag junior . He was then transferred to the 4th Infantry Regiment and served there as a company officer. When the Reichswehr transferred to the Wehrmacht, he initially served there as General Staff Officer , first as ID of the 7th Army and from July 1940 for one year as First General Staff Officer of the 253rd Infantry Division . He was assigned to the 9th Army as an Ic until August 1943 . Until early 1944 he led the 94th Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division .

Representing Hans Boeckh-Behrens , he commanded the 32nd Infantry Division that fought on the Eastern Front from the beginning of February 1944 to the end of May 1944 . This was followed by employment as chief of staff at the General of the Infantry in the OKH .

At the end of September 1944 he was awarded the Knight's Cross as commander of the Grenadier Brigade 1132 and at the same time was in command of the 73rd Infantry Division until the destruction of the large unit in Danzig in April 1945 .

On December 1, he was promoted to major general. With the large association he took part in the fighting during the Soviet Vistula-Oder operation in early 1945 . From April 10, 1945 to May 9, 1945 he was commander of the 12th Air Force Field Division . Until the end of 1955 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

Awards (selection)

Fonts

  • Collaboration on Edgar Röhricht : Problems of the Kesselschlacht: depicted in encirclement operations in World War II . Condor Verlag , 1958.
  • Nocturnal eruption and breakthrough (the battles of the 73rd Inf. Division from January 30th to February 4th, 1945) . Wehrkunde: Organ of the Society for Wehrkunde, Volume 9, Issue 11, Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1960, pp. 553 ff.

literature

  • Wolfgang Keilig : The German Army 1939–1945. Structure, commitment, staffing . Podzun, Bad Neuheim 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st – 290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 79 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2019]).
  2. ^ Hans Jürgen Pantenius: Last battle on the Eastern Front: from Döberitz to Danzig 1944/1945: Memory and experience of a young regimental commander . Mittler ES + Sohn GmbH, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8132-0741-5 , p. 218 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
  3. ^ A b Walther-Peer Fellgiebel: Elite of the Third Reich: The Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, 1939-45 . Helion & Company Limited, 2003, ISBN 978-1-874622-46-8 , pp. 308 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
  4. ^ A b Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st – 290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 125 ( google.de [accessed April 25, 2019]).
  5. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st – 999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 311 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Schlieper, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieper, Franz Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Friedenau
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1974
Place of death Hamburg