Hans Röttiger

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Hans Röttiger (born April 16, 1896 in Hamburg , † April 15, 1960 in Bonn ) was a lieutenant general in the army of the Bundeswehr and served as the army’s first inspector .

Hans Röttiger (center)

Military career

Hans Röttiger was the son of the Hamburg pedagogue Wilhelm Röttiger . In 1914 Röttiger entered the service of the artillery force of the Prussian Army and from 1915 served as a lieutenant in the Lauenburg foot artillery regiment No. 20 . After the First World War he was accepted into the Reichswehr and from 1925 as a first lieutenant in various roles , including as a battery officer, department adjutant and battery chief.

After Röttiger had completed the camouflaged general staff training , known as the driver assistant training because of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , he became a captain company commander in the motor force from 1931 . This was followed by use in the Army General Staff .

At the beginning of the Second World War Röttiger was a lieutenant colonel and served as the first general staff officer (Ia) of the VI. Army Corps . In the course of the western campaign in 1940 he became the newly established XXXXI. Army corps and served there as chief of staff . In this position he was promoted to colonel in January 1941 . During the Russian campaign in January 1942, Röttiger was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 4th Panzer Army and a little later promoted to major general. From April 1942 he held the same position in the 4th Army . He then served from July 1943 as Chief of the General Staff of Army Group A in Russia under General Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist and from June 1944 in the same function in Army Group C in Italy under General Field Marshal Albert Kesselring . On January 30, 1945 he was promoted to General of the Panzer Force. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British and the United States until 1948 .

Cushion stone Hans Röttiger, Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1950 he took part in the conference on German rearmament in the Himmerod monastery and worked there on the Himmeroder memorandum . One year after the founding of the Bundeswehr, Röttiger was reinstated in 1956 as lieutenant general and member of the military leadership council . On September 21, 1957, he was the first to take over the post of inspector of the army and was thus instrumental in building up the new German army. In the last years of his life he suffered from cancer; Röttiger died in office on April 15, 1960. He is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg near grid square N 9 ( Winter grave , Cordesallee ).

The Röttiger barracks in Hamburg-Neugraben-Fischbek bore his name.

Awards

literature

  • Hermann Büschleb: Hans Röttiger - builder of the army. In: European Defense. Vol. 29, No. 2, 1980, ISSN  0343-6373 , pp. 83-88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Röttiger died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 16, 1960.
  2. ↑ Graves of well-known personalities ( Memento of February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (via search function)
  3. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. As of May 1, 1930. Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, ZDB -ID 380055-6 , p. 157.
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross. 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume 2. Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 388.
personal data
SURNAME Röttiger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the armored forces, first inspector of the army of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1960
Place of death Bonn