Gerlach von Gaudecker

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Gerlach von Gaudecker-Zuch (born March 24, 1909 in Zuch near Neustettin , † March 11, 1970 in Laboe ) was a German officer , most recently a colonel in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Gaudecker served as an officer in World War II and was u. a. Regimental commander of the 33rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the 4th Panzer Division . On August 8, 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in the aforementioned position as Lieutenant Colonel . At the end of the war he had the rank of colonel. Shortly after Kammler's death he took over the leadership of the z. V. , which is also called the Gaudecker division group in the XXXXI. Army Corps fought.

From the end of April 1945 he negotiated the surrender of the division with the western allies. Among other things, von Gaudecker sent SS Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Wetzling as a parliamentarian . With a marching order signed by him, the division withdrew from the front and surrendered to the American 29th Infantry Division in the absence of von Gaudecker. Gaudecker had gone to the Army Corps command post to report the division's surrender. Once there, he was arrested immediately.

After the war he worked in the Federal Ministry of Defense from 1956 and was then accepted into the Bundeswehr. From February 1, 1959 to September 30, 1962, Gaudecker was in command of the Armored Brigade 15 "Westerwald" of the 5th Armored Division . He then became commander of the Territorial Defense Staff IV A in Koblenz ( Defense District Command 41 ), of which he remained until the end of March 1967. In one source his rank is incorrectly given as Brigadier General .

In 1966 Gaudecker was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Heereskunde . German Society for Heereskunde, 2005, p. 77 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Gaudecker, Gerlach von (1909–1971). In: Federal Archives. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  3. ^ Christian Hartmann: Wehrmacht in the Eastern War: Front and Military Hinterland 1941/42 . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70226-2 , p. 225 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ 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. 328 .
  5. ^ Franz Kurowski: Denied paternity: Wehrmacht officers created the Bundeswehr . Pour le Mérite, 2000, ISBN 978-3-932381-12-6 , pp. 337 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ a b Joseph Balkoski: The Last Roll Call: The 29th Infantry Division Victorious in 1945 . Stackpole Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8117-6290-8 , pp. 230 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Günther W. Gellermann: The Wenck Army, Hitler's Last Hope: Deployment, deployment and end of the 12th German Army in spring 1945 . Bernard & Graefe, 1990, ISBN 978-3-7637-5870-8 , pp. 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Günther W. Gellermann: The Wenck Army, Hitler's Last Hope: Deployment, deployment and end of the 12th German Army in spring 1945 . Bernard & Graefe, 1990, ISBN 978-3-7637-5870-8 , pp. 151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ↑ Documentation of the time . 1969, p. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Bundesanzeiger , vol. 19, number 42 of March 1, 1967, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Gaudecker, Gerlach von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaudecker-Zuch, Gerlach von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently a colonel in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Also at Neustettin
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1970
Place of death Laboe