Fritz Becker (General)

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Fritz Becker (born March 7, 1892 in Heidberg ; † June 11, 1967 in Herzberg am Harz ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general and last combat commander of Bremen in World War II .

Life

Becker was the son of a pastor and graduated from high school in Bad Kreuznach . He then began studying philology and then entered on 29 January 1913 as a cadet in the seventh Rhenish Infantry Regiment. 69 a. On May 20, 1914, he was promoted to lieutenant . As a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, Becker was deployed at the front when the First World War broke out . There he was appointed company commander on August 29, 1914 . Shortly afterwards, on September 3rd, he was wounded. After hospital stay and recovery, he was assigned to Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 257 on December 8, 1914. From July 28, 1915 to June 22, 1917, Becker acted as adjutant of the 1st Battalion and was promoted to first lieutenant on June 18, 1917 in this function . Then he was appointed as deputy regimental adjutant and on May 7, 1918, he was transferred to the 77th Reserve Infantry Brigade as deputy adjutant. Shortly before the end of the war, he was transferred to the 77th Reserve Division.

At the end of the war he worked in the Eastern Border Guard .

As an officer in the Reichswehr , in 1925 as a captain , he was deployed in various functions. In 1933 he became a major , in 1934 commander of a battalion, in 1936 lieutenant colonel and in 1939 commander of the 60th Infantry Regiment and colonel .

In the Second World War he was on the Western Front (Eifel and France) in 1939/40 , on the Balkan Front and on the Eastern Front in 1941 . In 1942 he was promoted to major general and in 1943 to lieutenant general and he was now commander of an infantry division and then deputy commander of a tank corps in the Soviet Union. From September 30, 1944 to March 25, 1945 he was commander of the 389th Infantry Division .

From April 5, 1945, he took over command of the Bremen defense area. The provisional mayor of Bremen Richard Duckwitz (NSDAP) and the Bremen Senator Hans-Joachim Fischer (NSDAP) spoke out in favor of a surrender of Bremen in April 1945, but Gauleiter Paul Wegener (NSDAP) and combat commander Becker did so on April 21, 1945 unconditional battle for the city. The President of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Karl Bollmeyer carried out an assassination attempt on Fritz Becker and had to go into hiding for a few days. Becker became a British prisoner of war and was interned until January 1948.

For a few years after the war he worked as a personnel consultant in an industrial company. As a pensioner after the war, he was one of the right-wing conservative circles. His writings were published in the Hutten letters for the right-wing extremist circle of friends Ulrich von Hutten .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Müller and Günther Rohdenburg (eds.): End of war in Bremen , p. 39; Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-265-9 .
  2. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 208.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidberg (Reichshof)
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1967
Place of death Herzberg am Harz