Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach

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Friedrich Jobst Guido Otto Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (born April 16, 1894 in Oberstdorf ; † April 3, 1989 in Munich ) was a German general in the mountain troops in World War II .

Life

origin

Friedrich Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach was the son of the customs officer and general of the mountain troops a. D. Jakob Albin Friedrich Christoph Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach and his wife Emma, ​​née Klapper († 1914).

Bavarian Army

After obtaining his university entrance qualification (July 15, 1913), he joined the 7th Company of the 19th Infantry Regiment “King Viktor Emanuel III” as a one-year volunteer on October 1, 1913 . von Italy ”of the Bavarian Army . On November 13, 1913, he was promoted to Fahnenjunker . In 1914, he was promoted to sergeant on January 7th, to ensign on July 1st and to lieutenant on September 27th (patent from January 7th, 1913). During the First World War he was on the Western Front as a machine-gun platoon commander , company commander and battalion, regimental and Deputy. Brigade adjutant used and was on April 6, 1918 Lieutenant promoted. For his achievements he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Order of Military Merit IV class with swords and crown.

Weimar Republic

From the end of April to the beginning of May 1919 Friedrich Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach was briefly a member of the Epp Freikorps , but was soon accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr and served in the 41st Jäger Battalion of the 41st Reichswehr Rifle Regiment. With the formation of the Reichswehr, he continued his service 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment continues. There he was promoted to captain on November 1, 1926 .

time of the nationalsocialism

On September 1, 1934, he was promoted to major . In 1935 he took over the 2nd Battalion in the Mountain Infantry Regiment 99 in Augsburg , with whom he moved into Füssen in 1936 under the later Colonel General Eduard Dietl . From May 1, 1940, he was in command of the 141 Mountain Infantry Regiment in the 6th Mountain Division .

Friedrich Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach led the Mountain Infantry Regiment 141 of the 6th Mountain Division in the Balkan campaign . He then became head of the staff of the inspection of the education and training system in the OKH and finally deputy inspector of the education and training system. In December 1942 he left this post as major general to take command of the 8th Jäger Division on the Eastern Front until 1944.

The German Cross in Gold was awarded to Lieutenant General Friedrich Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach on November 3, 1943 and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 26, 1944. In October 1944 he came to Courland as commanding general of the L. Army Corps , where he took over the 16th Army in March 1945 as general of the mountain troops .

At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1955. His ten-year captivity in the Soviet Union only ended with the historic visit to Moscow by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . The report he wrote for the Scientific Commission for German Prisoner of War history on the time of prisoner-of-war was published in 1984 as a book Without Zorn und Eifer. Report of an imprisonment 1945–1955 published.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Together with Wolfgang Vogelsgesang : Sufferings are lessons - The life of Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach , 1980
  • Without anger and zeal. Report of a captivity 1945 to 1955 , 1984, ISBN 978-3925967023

literature

  • Richard Frodl : Speech on April 7, 1984 in Blutenburg Castle for the publication of the book Without Zorn und Eifer. 1984.
  • Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. Volume 2, Volume 6, Biblio 1994, p. VII and p. 579.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eberhard Freiherr von Eyb: The imperial knightly family of the barons of Eyb . Kommissionsverlag Degener, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7686-5072-4 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 170.
  3. ↑ Erwin A. Schmidl: Der 'Anschluss' Österreichs .: The German invasion in March 1938. Bernard & Graefe, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7637-5936-1 ( google.de [accessed on December 23, 2017]).
  4. ^ 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 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
  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 , p. 761.
  6. ↑ a b Prit Buttar: Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4728-0287-3 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, Friedrich Jobst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchsittenbach, Friedrich Jobst Guido Otto Volckamer from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the mountain troops in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1989
Place of death Munich