Friedrich Bayer (General)

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Friedrich Bayer (born November 1, 1887 in Krotoschin , Posen province ; † August 5, 1953 in POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo near Moscow ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general of the Wehrmacht .

Life

Friedrich Bayer joined the Royal Prussian Army as an ensign at the end of February 1907 . In the 24th Infantry Regiment he was appointed lieutenant at the end of January 1908 with a patent in mid-1906 .

From August 1919 to March 1935 he was in the police force, then switched back to the military with the rank of colonel .

Subsequently, until September 1939 he was first in command of the newly established 78th Infantry Regiment of the 26th Infantry Division and then, as the successor to Helge Auleb, in command of the 77th Infantry Regiment. In 1938 he had already been promoted to major general. In 1939/40 he commanded division No. 182 (previously commander of replacement troop 2 in military district XII ) and was promoted to lieutenant general in this position. This was followed by the position of commandant of Strasbourg until the beginning of 1941 .

From mid-March 1941 he took over the newly established 281st Security Division , which he led until October 1941. For the Kaunas area of ​​responsibility of his division, he implemented the 16th Army's requirement not to tolerate any local autonomy movements. He also expressed himself disparagingly about the population in his area of ​​operation as "clearly Eastern character". When in August 1941 over 300 communists and Jews in the area of ​​the 281st security division in Rositten were shot by the Latvian self-defense, Bayer issued a “serious warning” that “every soldier must refrain from criticizing and commenting on these matters ". Subsequently, however, he withdrew all field and local commanderships from responsibility for “all measures affecting the Jews”. Wilhelm von Leeb put him in charge of the extermination of partisans north of Pleskau in August 1941 . This prompted Bayer to accelerate the introduction of three Landesschützen battalions.

He was then transferred to the Führerreserve , but on his orders in December 1941 all felt boots, including those of the children, of the Russian population were confiscated.

From December 1941 he took over the leadership of the 122nd Infantry Division for two months as a substitute for Siegfrid Macholz and became commander of the 181st Infantry Division for a few days in March 1942 . He was then commander of the 217th Infantry Division until the end of September 1942 . On September 27, 1942 he became commander of the 347th Infantry Division , which he led until October 12, 1943. From the end of November, the command of the 408th replacement division followed . From mid-June 1944 he took over command of the 153rd Field Training Division . On September 11, 1944, he was captured by the Soviets on the Eastern Front , in which he died in 1953.

literature

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. 333 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  2. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans-Erich Volkmann: The Wehrmacht: Myth and Reality. Special edition . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-85202-8 , p. 860 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kilian: Wehrmacht and Occupation in the Russian Northwest 1941–1944: Practice and everyday life in the military administrative area of ​​Army Group North . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co KG, 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77613-6 , p. 190 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  4. ^ Raul Hilberg: Cowardly spectators, zealous accomplices . In: The time . May 3, 1996, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 21, 2019]).
  5. ^ A b Jürgen Kilian: Wehrmacht and Occupation in the Russian Northwest 1941 - 1944: Practice and everyday life in the military administrative area of ​​Army Group North . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co KG, 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77613-6 , p. 484 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Jürgen Kilian: Wehrmacht and Occupation in the Russian Northwest 1941-1944: Practice and Everyday Life in the Military Administrative Area of ​​Army Group North . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co KG, 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77613-6 , p. 518 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Paul Kohl: The war of the German armed forces and the police 1941-1944: Soviet survivors report . FISCHER Digital, 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-561151-7 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  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. 176 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  9. ^ 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. 234 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  10. ^ 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. 271 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  11. ^ 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. 57 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  12. ^ 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. 107 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
  13. ^ 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. 201 ( google.de [accessed on July 21, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Krotoschin
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1953
Place of death Woikowo camp near Moscow