Friedrich Warnecke (officer)

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Friedrich Warnecke (born November 25, 1898 in Burgdorf , † May 4, 1968 in Ronnenberg ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

Friedrich Warnecke served as an officer in the First World War . After leaving the army for the first time, he was a former member of the Ehrhardt Brigade and chaired the Consul organization in Hamburg . From 1922 he was wanted for his involvement in bomb attacks as a so-called "Warnecke explosive column", including on Ernst Thälmann and the revolutionary monument of the Ohlsdorf cemetery . He went into hiding in the Black Reichswehr . He later resigned from the army a second time, but was returned to military service in 1936.

During the Second World War Warnecke was, among other things, as a colonel representing Friedrich Kittel from December 1944 to January 1945, in command of the 62nd Volksgrenadier Division . After his promotion to major general, he was in command of the 256th Volksgrenadier Division from the beginning of April 1945 until the end of the war .

The then major and commander of the III. Battalion in Grenadier Regiment 517 of the 295th Infantry Division was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on January 22, 1943 . In the same function, but in Grenadier Regiment 518, he had already received the German Cross in Gold in February 1942 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staatsarchiv Schwerin: Publications . 1966, p. 68 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2019]).
  2. ^ Gabriele Hoffmann: Max M. Warburg . Ellert & Richter, June 2009, p. 108 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Niels Weise: Eicke: An SS career between mental hospital, concentration camp system and Waffen SS . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2013, ISBN 978-3-657-77705-1 , p. 95 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b Norbert Fischer, Hanna Vollmer-Heitmann: The Chronicle of Hamburg . Chronik Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-611-00194-9 , p. 415 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Bernhard Sauer: Black Reichswehr and Fememorde: a milieu study on right-wing radicalism in the Weimar Republic . Metropol-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-936411-06-5 , pp. 94 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2019]).
  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. 113 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2019]).
  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. 305 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Veit Scherzer : The 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 , pp. 768 .
personal data
SURNAME Warnecke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 1968
Place of death Ronnenberg