Gustav Gihr

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Gustav Gihr (born August 18, 1894 in Geisingen ; † October 31, 1959 in Freiburg i. Br. ) Was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

Gihr served as an officer in the First World War . After the end of the war he switched to the police force. In the Wehrmacht he led the 216th Inf.-Div. , the 7th Inf.-Div. , the 95th Inf.-Div. , the 45th Inf.-Div. , the 35th Inf.-Div. , the 110th Inf.-Div. and the 707th Infantry Division . Gihr was taken prisoner of war when Army Group Center collapsed as a result of Soviet Operation Bagration in 1944.

He was one of the fifty German generals who, in Soviet captivity, signed the appeal of the 17 generals "To the people and the Wehrmacht" on December 8, 1944, calling on the German population and army to separate from the Nazi leadership and to end the war were.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Michaelis: Causes and Consequences: From the German collapse in 1918 and 1945 to the state reorganization of Germany in the present; a collection of documents and documents on contemporary history, Volume 1, Dokument-Verlag, p. 225 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Martin Jenner: The 216./272. Lower Saxony Infantry Division . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1964, ISBN 3-89555-333-6 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Hertlein: Chronicle of the 7th Infantry Division . Bruckmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7654-1956-7 .
  4. ^ Karl Knoblauch: Kampf und Untergang der 95th Infanterie Division: Chronicle of an Infantry Division from 1939-1945 in France and on the Eastern Front , Flechsig Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88189-771-6 .
  5. ^ Ernst Beyersdorff: History of the 110th Infantry Division , Podzun Verlag, 1965.
  6. ↑ Text online at pkgodzik.de (PDF; 53 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Gihr, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Geisingen
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1959
Place of death Freiburg i. Br.