Georg von Rittberg

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Georg Karl Hermann Edmund Graf von Rittberg (born May 30, 1898 in Strasbourg , † June 6, 1973 in Krün ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in World War II .

Life

Georg Graf von Rittenberg was a member of the Prussian line of the noble family of Rittenberg . He stepped on August 8, 1914 as cadet from the cadet corps in the Army and served as an officer in the First World War . In mid-1915 he was a lieutenant in the 61st Field Artillery Regiment .

After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and then served in the Wehrmacht . From October 1935 he was in the rank of captain , later a major , as a department commander in the newly established Artillery Regiment 23 of the 23rd Infantry Division in Potsdam . From the beginning of April 1939 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Adjutant to the Wehrmacht Plenipotentiary of the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and stayed there until mid-1940. He then took over the leadership of the 31st Artillery Regiment of the 31st Infantry Division in Halberstadt and a short time later in the same position that of the newly established Artillery Regiment 131 of the 131st Infantry Division . He was promoted to colonel at the beginning of October 1941 with a patent at the beginning of December 1940. The 131st Infantry Division had marched into Russia as a deployment division for Operation Barbarossa , fought a. a. in Belarus and in the cauldron battle near Białystok . He remained in command of the regiment until the end of 1942, when he became Arko. In the summer of 1943 he took over a grenadier regiment as commander.

From the beginning of November 1943 to the beginning of January 1945, he was in command of the 88th Infantry Division . The division took part in the Battle of the Dnieper until the end of 1943 . The deployment in the Cherkassy basin followed . In early February 1944 he was promoted to major general and in early August 1944 to lieutenant general. Before the start of the Vistula-Oder operation , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on the Eastern Front near Radom and was considered missing. So he had to be replaced as commander of the 88th Infantry Division by Colonel Carl Anders .

At the end of 1955 he was released from Soviet captivity.

Georg von Rittberg was married to Elisabeth Müller (* 1901 in Metz , † 1989 in Krün) from mid-1926 . The couple had two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Justus Perthes, 1935, p. 387 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 148 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  3. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Rittberg, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rittberg, Georg Karl Hermann Edmund Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1973
Place of death Krün , Upper Bavaria