Georg Poten

Georg Poten (born February 14, 1881 in Berlin , † May 4, 1965 in Hanover ) was a German police officer and lieutenant general in the Wehrmacht during World War II .

Life

In 1901, Poten joined the East Prussian Uhlan Regiment "Graf zu Dohna" No. 8 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . In 1903 he was promoted to lieutenant and before 1914 commanded the General Staff , on September 5, 1914 promoted to captain. In the First World War he served in the general staff service.

On March 31, 1919, he was out of the army with the character as a Major adopted. As such, he entered the police force and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1921, and in 1925 to colonel of the police, as well as commander of the higher police school in Potsdam-Eiche , and also appointed officer for the organization of the police in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior under Carl Severing . With the Prussian strike on July 20, 1932, he was promoted to commander of the Berlin Police Department, succeeding the deposed Magnus Heimannsberg . In autumn 1932 he was appointed major general of the police, in March 1933 he was appointed senior police leader in Halle (Saale) , and in November 1933 he was appointed commander of the Southwest State Police Inspectorate.

In the spring of 1936 he joined the army as major general and was appointed inspector of the military replacement inspection in Koblenz on April 1, 1936 . On April 1, 1937, he became lieutenant general until he left active service in the Wehrmacht in 1939. At the end of October 1939 he was reactivated as commander of the new division z. b. V. 426 appointed, at the beginning of February 1940 he handed over command to Lieutenant General Kurt von Berg . For this he was again inspector of the military replacement inspection in Koblenz until mid-August 1940. On December 31, 1941 he was finally retired from active service.

Fonts

• The Uhlan Regiment Graf zu Dohna (East Pr.) No. 8 in the World War. After d. official war diaries and with many participants in the war, Zeulenroda 1933.