General engineer

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General engineer (GenIng.) Was a rank within the Wehrmacht , which corresponded to the army rank of major general .

meaning

The term mainly summarizes the engineer officers of the Air Force . These were assigned to the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) or employed directly there. Each general engineer received a technical assignment, such as B. Procurement or engines / engines. Some of the general engineers were also employed directly at companies:

These were led by a general staff engineer . From August 1940 until the end of January 1943, he was Dipl.-Ing. Roluf Lucht (1901–1945). From 1933 he was head of the technical office in the Reich Ministry of Aviation. Lucht himself had been promoted to general engineer in early July 1939.

However, general engineers were also named for other branches of service . For example, the chief construction director Karl Weis was in June 1944 general engineer with Commander -in -Chief West or Karl Klugar (1912-1997) general engineer in Army Group North . In the army, the general engineer had the right to visit all construction sites and to inspect documents.

Officers in that rank

  • Dipl.-Ing. Erich Scheuermann (1888–1957), from August 1939
  • Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Spies (1895–1978), from April 1940
  • Dr.-Ing. Hanns Weidinger, from August 1940
  • Dipl.-Ing. Otto Maashoff (1895–1941), from August 1940
  • Ing. Günther Tschersich (1899–1953), from August 1940; due to an investigation after Udets death in February 1942 first released and then released from the army
  • Ing.Heinrich Bauer (1876–1960), from April 1941
  • Dipl.-Ing. Richard Bullinger (1878–1946), from September 1941
  • Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Marquard (1897–1980), from September 1941
  • Gottfried Reidenbach (1899–1977), from September 1941; due to investigations after Udets death in August 1942 first released and then released from the army
  • Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Eisenlohr (1893–1991), from November 1941
  • Dipl.-Ing. Karl Rau (1884–1971), from November 1941
  • Dipl.-Ing. Walter Hertel , from January 1942
  • Hans Fischer , from April 1942
  • Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Graf von Bullion (1893–1976), from August 1942
  • Dipl.-Ing. Gerbert Hübner (1897–1985), from December 1942
  • Dipl.-Ing. Franz Mahnke -, from December 1942
  • Dipl.-Ing. Heinrich Sellschopp, from December 1942
  • Dipl.-Ing. Kurt August (1894–1981), from April 1943
  • Dipl.-Ing. Hans Schwarz (1896–1968), from April 1943
  • Hanns Hämmerle (1897–1982), from February 1944
  • Artur Paul , from April 1944
  • Ing.Rudolf Hermann (1900–1948), from July 1944
  • Friedrich Hucke (1888–1948), from October 1944

Ranking of Air Force Engineers

  1. General engineer
  2. Colonel engineer
  3. Aviator Chief Staff Engineer
  4. Flieger-Oberstabs-Engineer
  5. Air Force Engineer

literature

  • Dermot Bradley, Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921-1945, Part IV. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 978-3-7648-2423-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Academy of Aviation Research: Yearbook . 1941, p. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Philipp Aumann, Thomas Köhler: Destructive progress: serial production and war use of the Peenemünde "retribution weapons" . Ch. Links Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-030-8 , pp. 107 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Franz Wilhelm Seidler: The Organization Todt . Bernard & Graefe, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7637-5842-5 , pp. 24 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ A b Prof Richard Suchewirth: Command and Leadership in the German Air Force . Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78720-675-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ A b Günter Gribbohm: The Reich Court Martial: the institution and its legal evaluation . BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8305-0585-3 , p. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book search).