Gottfried Weber (General)

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Gottfried Ludwig Weber (born January 31, 1899 in Breslau ; † August 16, 1958 in Villach ) was a German officer . He served as Lieutenant General in World War II and was most recently Major General in the German Armed Forces .

Life

Gottfried Weber was born in 1899 as the son of trainee Dr. phil. Ludwig Weber and his wife Elvire born Lehmann. Weber served as an officer in the First World War . After the war he was discharged from the army. Rejoined the Wehrmacht, during World War II he led the 81st Infantry Division , the 61st Infantry Division and the 93rd Infantry Division as commander . In 1945 Weber was captured by the Soviets in the Kurland Kessel . In October 1955 he was released from prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo .

After the war he served again as an officer in the German Armed Forces, most recently as major general and inspector of the infantry.

He married in Sopot in 1932 .

Awards

• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class
• Wound badge (1939) in black
• Infantry Assault Badge
• German cross in gold on February 16, 1943
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
  • Knight's Cross on October 13, 1941
  • Oak leaves on June 9, 1944 (490th award)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} registry office Breslau I: birth register . No. 268/1899.
2. ↑ Manfred Zeidler: Stalin Justice contra Nazi crimes. The war crimes trials against German prisoners of war in the USSR from 1943 to 1952. State of knowledge and research problems. Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden 1996. ISBN 3-93164-808-7 , p. 70 "Transport list for returnees from October 1955 with those released from the Vojkovo general camp."
3. ↑ Veit Scherzer : 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 .