Friedrich Stahl (officer)

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Friedrich Stahl as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Albert Gottfried Friedrich Stahl (born June 14, 1889 in Darmstadt ; † December 19, 1979 ) was a German officer, most recently with the rank of lieutenant general .

Live and act

Stahl joined the Prussian army in 1909 , where the career of a professional officer began.

During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Stahl was regimental commander. During the French campaign of 1940 he was employed in the staff of Army High Command 16 . From June 1941 to December 1942 Stahl was in command of the 714th Infantry Division in the Balkans . In the period from June 1941 to May 1942 he was involved in “securing” Serbia , especially the north of the country. He then worked in Croatia in the same way until December 1942 . In the course of so-called expiatory measures in partisan struggle , he was involved in the organization of larger-scale executions of members of the local population, especially communists and Jews . He was then used for a few months on the Eastern Front , where he was active in a rear army area .

In 1943, Stahl became a personnel officer in Military District I , East Prussia. He later became the commander of a special staff that was busy reviewing organizational measures. From November 1944 to February 1945 Stahl was General z. b. V. in Army Group B ( model ). During the last weeks of the war, from the beginning of April 1945 to May 9, 1945, he was General of the Wehrmacht Order Troops in the area of Commander-in-Chief West . In this position he was responsible for securing the rear of the combat area and transport routes and access roads.

At the end of the war, Stahl fell into American captivity in Eger . As a result, he was questioned as a witness in the course of the Nuremberg trials .

family

Stahl married Katharina Worzewski in 1914. After her death in 1934, he married Herta Schwarz in 1935, who was a member of the NSDAP . He had three sons, including Friedrich-Christian Stahl (1918-2010), who from 1965 to 1980 headed the Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Awards

During World War II, steel was awarded the Iron Cross clasps of both classes as well as Croatian and Hungarian awards.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finding aid for BArch N61, Friedrich Stahl estate in the holdings of the Federal Archives , Freiburg im Breisgau 2015 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Carl Bethke : The Image of the German Resistance to Hitler in (Ex-) Yugoslavia, Society for Serbian-German Cooperation, 1991. ( Memento from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Manfred Kehrig: Friedrich-Christian Stahl † . In: Der Archivar , Volume 64, Issue 02 (May 2011), p. 264 ( Online ).
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahl, Albert Gottfried Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 1979