Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt

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Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (born January 15, 1892 in Strasbourg , † September 9, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

At the beginning of 1910 Eberhardt joined the Magdeburg Dragoon Regiment No. 6 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . After completing his military training from late 1910 to mid-1911, he served in the regiment until June 1915. He then took part in the First World War in the Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 until January 1918 , fell seriously ill three times (September 1915, wounded at the end of 1916 and early 1917) and became company commander . In early 1918 he became the first orderly officer of the 220th Infantry Division . In addition to both classes of the Iron Cross , Eberhardt received the Wound Badge in black for his behavior .

After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and worked as a commander and general staff officer in various associations until 1935 . Promoted to colonel in 1935 , he took command of the 44th Artillery Regiment.

Eberhardt and Henryk Sucharski , Westerplatte , 1939

In 1939 he was ordered to set up the Danzig National Police in Danzig. In June 1939, the Eberhardt police group (also known as "Brigade Danzig" or "Brigade Eberhardt") was set up in Danzig and included two infantry regiments and an artillery division. These associations of the state police were placed under military leadership as a military association and took part in the battle for the Westerplatte at the beginning of the Second World War. The troop of approx. 1,500 men named after the commander, Major General Eberhardt, was a crew unit that carried out the conquest from board the ship of the line Schleswig-Holstein . After the surrender of the Polish troops on the Westerplatte, he returned his saber to the Polish commander Henryk Sucharski for the duration of his captivity . The postal workers who survived the battle for the Polish post office in Danzig were executed on his orders.

From October 1939 the 60th Infantry Division was issued from the Eberhardt police group and Eberhardt was the commander of this division in the XXIV Army Corps from August 1939 to May 1942 . With this he took part in the invasion of France in 1940/41, of Yugoslavia ("Operation 25") in 1941 and in fighting on the Eastern Front in the course of Operation Barbarossa at the end of 1941 until he was assigned to the Führerreserve in 1942. On December 31, 1941 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

With the formation of the 38th Infantry Division in July 1942, he became its commander until August 1942. He then remained in the Führerreserve until August 1943 and then took over the 174th Reserve Division for one year . From August 1944 to December 1944 he was in command of the 286th Security Division .

From mid-December 1944 until the end of the war, Eberhardt worked as an officer judge in the 3rd Senate at the Reich Court Martial under Judge General Karl Schmauser. As a judge, he was involved in several death sentences:

Eberhardt became a prisoner of war in May 1945 and was released from captivity in 1947. He was married and is buried in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Siemens: Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts . Yale University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-300-23125-0 , pp. 246 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Werner Röhr, Brigitte Berlekamp, ​​Karl Heinz Roth: The war before the war: Economics and politics of the "peaceful" aggressions of Germany 1938/1939 . Vsa Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-87975-837-9 , p. 234 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Academy of Sciences of the GDR Central Institute for History, German History Research Area 1917–1945, Military History Institute of the GDR, Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED Department History of the German Workers' Movement from the Beginnings to 1945: Germany in the Second World War . Pahl-Rugenstein, 1974, ISBN 3-7609-0169-7 , pp. 164 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Manfred Messerschmidt: The Wehrmacht Justice, 1933-1945 . Schöningh, 2005, ISBN 3-506-71349-3 , pp. 236 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ^ 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. 85 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ 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. 229 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ 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. 336 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ^ Welf Botho Elster: The limits of obedience: the life of Major General Botho Henning Elster in letters and contemporary testimonies . Olms, 2005, p. 8 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ↑ Bengt von Zur Mühlen, Andreas von Klewitz: The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court . Chronos, 2001, ISBN 3-931054-06-3 , pp. 371 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Maximilian Fretter-Pico: "... abandoned by the gods of victory": abused infantry . Kyffhäuser Verlag, 1969, p. 168 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Eberhardt, Friedrich-Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberhardt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1964
Place of death Wiesbaden