Heinrich-Anton Deboi

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Heinrich-Anton Deboi (born April 6, 1893 in Landshut ; † January 20, 1955 in POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo Tschernzy ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general in the army of the Wehrmacht in World War II .

Life

Deboi joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" of the Bavarian Army as an ensign on July 6, 1912 and was commanded from October 1913 to the end of July 1914 at the Munich War School. When the First World War broke out , Deboi returned to his regular regiment and was subsequently deployed with it continuously on the Western Front, where he took part in the Battle of the Somme , among other things . From May 31, 1917 until after the end of the war Deboi acted as a company commander .

After the demobilization of his regiment from December 13 to 28, 1918 in Munich, Deboi resigned from this and was transferred to the 19 Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr on October 1, 1920 . In this, Deboi was first used in the 4th (MG) company before he served as adjutant of the 1st Battalion in Munich for two years from October 1, 1923 . He was then chief of the 15th Company. In 1926 he was briefly assigned to the staff of the 7th (Bavarian) Division . In 1930 he took over the 8th (MG) company of his regiment. From October 15, 1935 to the beginning of October 1936, Deboi then acted as a tactics teacher at the Munich War School. Then on October 6, 1936, he was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion of the 91st Infantry Regiment, which he commanded until mid-August 1939.

In the course of the general mobilization before the attack on Poland , Deboi was appointed commander of the 199 Infantry Regiment of the 57th Infantry Division on August 26, 1939 , which was used in this campaign with Army Group South . In the spring of 1940 Deboi led his regiment in the western campaign . After the end of the fighting, the regiment and the division remained used for occupation tasks in France. With the beginning of Operation Barbarossa , Debois Regiment moved as part of the division in the area of ​​Army Group South as far as the Belgorod area . Here Deboi gave up command of the regiment at the end of January 1942 and on January 31, 1942 was entrusted with the command of the 44th Infantry Division , to whose commander he was appointed in early May 1942 after his promotion to major general. As part of the 6th Army , the division under Deboi's leadership took part in Operation Blau and advanced towards Stalingrad . There most of Deboi's division was destroyed in the local battle for Stalingrad by January 1943. On January 28, 1943 Deboi was taken prisoner by the Soviets , which he spent in various prisoner-of-war camps. On January 20, 1955, he died in the Chernzy camp hospital of uremia due to chronic nephritis and arteriosclerosis . He found his final resting place at the Chernzy POW cemetery (row 3, grave 5/6).

Grave slab in Cherntsy

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. Volume 3: Dahlmann-Fitzlaff. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1994, ISBN 3-7648-2424-7 , pp. 40-41.
  • Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 , p. 65.
  • Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. Biblio-Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-3-7648-1153-2 , pp. 164-165.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 433.
  2. ↑ Irina V. Bezborodova: The generals of the Third Reich in Soviet hands. Association for the promotion of research into the consequences of conflicts and wars, Graz-Moscow 1998, ISBN 978-3-901661-03-7 , pp. 59–60.
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stalingrad.net
  4. ↑ a b c Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry , ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1924. p. 165.
  5. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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 , p. 267.
  6. ↑ View of the outline under google.books
personal data
SURNAME Deboi, Heinrich-Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1955
Place of death Cherntsy