Friedrich Fahnert

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Friedrich Fahnert (born January 18, 1879 in Limbach-Oberfrohna , † June 10, 1964 in Baden-Baden ) was a general in the Wehrmacht's air intelligence service , who significantly shaped military communications from the beginnings of telegraphy to the end of World War II .

Life

Fahnert joined the Prussian Army as a flag junior in March 1900 , attended the war school in Metz from 1901 and was promoted to lieutenant during this time . In 1904 Fahnert went to German South West Africa with the Imperial Protection Force and returned to Berlin in 1907, where he attended the Military Technical Academy until 1909, where he was promoted to first lieutenant .

In March 1909 Fahnert was deployed to the Telegraph Battalion No. 1 in Berlin and in March 1913 he became the commanding officer at the military flying school in Halberstadt. In October 1913 he was promoted to captain and company commander in Telegraph Battalion No. 7. In 1913 he began pilot training and received his pilot's license in May of the same year. From 1914 Fahnert was deployed in various field pilot departments and was a staff officer in the general staff of the Scholtz Army Department from March 1916 during the First World War . In December 1916, he became the commander of the Flieger-Funk-Department at the Inspector of the Flieger (IdFlieg) and remained there until shortly before the end of the war in 1918, department head of Army Air Park 11 and then Army Air Park 5. After that, he became deputy battalion commander in the 2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry. Regiment No. 171 , in which he was finally appointed battalion commander on November 1, 1918.

After the end of the war, he was company commander and commander in various state rifle departments of the Saxon border guards from 1919 . From October 1919 Fahnert became the commander of the 19th Border Guard News Battalion. From January 1921 he was a staff officer for intelligence in the staff of the 4th Division in Dresden.

Until the end of the Second World War, Fahnert was employed as commander of the air intelligence forces, instructor of air intelligence at the Air War Academy and inspector of air force intelligence. As the commander of the air intelligence forces , he was also deployed in the Leningrad blockade from autumn 1941 . In an expert report by the Military History Research Office (MGFA) it is stated that a relevant official assessment of March 15, 1939 had confirmed that he was “firmly and perfectly based on the National Socialist worldview”. On February 1, 1945, he became higher in command of the air intelligence staff in Halle (Saale) and was promoted to general of the air intelligence force on April 1, 1945.

Fahnert was captured on May 2, 1945 and released from British captivity on December 5, 1947. The General-Fahnert-Kaserne of the Bundeswehr in Karlsruhe was named after him. In June 2015 it became known that the Baden-Württemberg state command of the Bundeswehr had initiated a procedure to rename the barracks name, since the MGFA's findings on its role in the German-Soviet war “do not indicate that Fahnert's behavior is exemplary in the sense of of the applicable traditional guidelines was ".

literature

  • Friedrich Fahnert, Ferdinand Nibler: My life and my time: the memoirs of General of the Luftnachrichtentruppe Friedrich Fahnert. January 18, 1879– June 10, 1964. University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich 1997.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Theo Westermann: Fahnert barracks gets a new name. In: Baden's latest news . June 25, 2015, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Fahnert, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General of the Air Intelligence Force of the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Limbach-Oberfrohna
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1964
Place of death Baden-Baden