Gottfried Greiner

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Gottfried Greiner (born December 21, 1922 in Augsburg ; † December 3, 2009 in Mannheim ) was a German lawyer and officer who already served in World War II and was most recently major general in the Bundeswehr. He was u. a. Commander of the 7th Armored Division and Commander of the Territorial Command South . After his active service, he earned services in the Clausewitz Society and in the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces .

Life

Wehrmacht

Greiner came from Augsburg in Swabia . He attended a humanistic grammar school and joined the army of the Wehrmacht in October 1940 during the Second World War . He served in Infantry Replacement Battalion 61 in Munich ( Military District VII ) and completed the officer applicant course with Infantry Replacement Battalion 7, which acted as a security force in Saint-Avold in occupied France . In May 1941 he became a group leader in the 61st Infantry Regiment, which had previously been transferred to occupied Poland . In 1941/42 he completed the 8th officer trainee course at the infantry school for Fahnenjunker in Potsdam-Bornstedt .

Then he was a training officer in the infantry replacement battalion in Munich. He was used at the front and was promoted to lieutenant in February 1942 . In March 1942 he was platoon leader in the newly established 542 Infantry Regiment, but then wounded and taken to a hospital . After recovering, he was used again as a training officer in January 1943.

In August 1943 he came to the Panzer Replacement and Training Department 35 in Bamberg, where he was retrained in tanks . This was followed by use in the separate Reserve Panzer Department 35 and in the Führerreserve at Army Group Center , which at the time was led by Colonel Günther Blumentritt . In August 1944 he was transferred to Panzer Regiment 35 for special use, where he was then appointed as adjutant , escort and orderly officer in the 4th Panzer Division under Lieutenant General Clemens Betzel . In May 1945, the first lieutenant was taken prisoner by the British .

Study and job

After the Second World War studied Greiner 1948-1951 Law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . He put both legal state examinations (1951, 1954) from, graduated from the clerkship in Munich and in 1953 at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Göttingen with a thesis on expropriation, Sacrifice claim and socialization for new German constitutional law to Dr. jur. PhD.

From 1954 to 1956 he was a government assessor or councilor in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich.

armed forces

Promotions

In 1956 he became a captain in the Armored Corps of the Army of the Armed Forces and completed the second troop teacher training course at the Armor School (PzTrS) in Munster camp . From 1956 to 1958 he was company commander in tank battalion 5 in Koblenz. In 1957/58 he took part in the course at the US Army Armor Center in Fort Knox in Kentucky / USA.

In 1958/59 he was S1 at the Army Officer School III in Munich. In 1959/60 he completed the 3rd general staff course (H) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. From 1961 to 1964 he was a general staff officer in the HQ Allied Land Forces Central Europe (LANDCENT) in Fontainebleau. 1964/65 followed the general staff course at the study group army of the FüAkBw. From 1965 to 1967 he was a teaching staff officer, troop leadership and lecture hall leader of the Army department at the FüAkBw. In 1967 he became Chief of Staff of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division in Marburg. From 1969 to 1971 he was an army adjutant and staff officer at the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , General Ulrich de Maizière , in Bonn. From 1971 to 1973 he was in command of Jägerbrigade 10 in Weiden.

From 1973 to 1978 he was director of training, teaching and research at the FüAkBw. From 1978 to 1980 he was commander of the 7th Panzer Division in Unna and from 1980 to 1983 commander of the Territorial Command South in Heidelberg, as such he was responsible for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. He retired as major general in 1983.

After that he did military exercises as the military director of an overall defense course at the FüAkBw.

Others

After the end of his service life, Greiner was a co-opted member of the Presidium of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces (VdRBw) “Commissioner for Military Promotion”. He supported the establishment of the "Wartime Host Nation Support" program and further developed the training of reserve officers . From 1994 to 2000 he was spokesman for the advisory board of the Clausewitz Society . He was u. a. responsible for the organization and implementation of the Society's colloquia for six years.

He published u. a. in military journals such as Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau and Wehrkunde .

family

Greiner, a Protestant, was married.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The relationship between politics and the military in the training of senior leaders in NATO . In: Clausewitz Society (Ed.): Freedom without War ?. Contributions to the strategy discussion of the present in the mirror of the theory of Carl von Clausewitz . With a foreword by Ulrich de Maizière , Dümmler, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-427-82051-3 , pp. 301 ff.
  • Homeland Security - the changed image of war . In: Johannes Gerber , Manfred Kühr (Ed.): Land warfare. Operation, tactics, logistics, means . Supplement, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2004, ISBN 3-7648-2377-1 , p. 125 ff.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 2, 1: Gaedcke - Hoff . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , pp. 109-111.
  • Manfred Sadlowski (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the defense industry . 2nd edition, Wehr & Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Koblenz u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-8033-0293-5 , p. 56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Double change in Heidelberg. New commander and new chief of staff at TKS . In: AKTIV aktuell 05/80, p. 24 ( PDF ).
  2. ↑ Walter Rutz: Bibliography of the dissertations in constitutional and administrative law 1945-1960 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1965, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: Bibliography of the annual work 1957 to 1987 . In: Detlef Bald , Wilhelm Nolte, Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: General staff training between society and the military. The annual work archive . Edited by the command academy of the Bundeswehr and the Clausewitz Society , Mittler, Herford u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-8132-0375-1 , p. 67.
  4. ^ John Zimmermann : Ulrich de Maizière, General of the Bonn Republic. 1912 to 2006 (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Vol. 12). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71300-8 , p. 341, fn. 918.
  5. ^ Corps Command I. Corps (Ed.): 30 Years I. Corps, 1956–1986. History and chronicle of the army units in north-west Germany . 3rd, revised and expanded edition, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1986, ISBN 3-7648-1479-9 , p. 206.
  6. ↑ a b Major General Gottfried Greiner has passed away . In: loyal 2/2010, p. 50.
  7. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 268.
  8. ^ A b Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 98.
  9. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2009
Place of death Mannheim