Heinz von Gyldenfeldt
Heinz von Gyldenfeldt (born August 15, 1899 in Bromberg , † August 23, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German officer, most recently Lieutenant General of the Army of the Wehrmacht .
Life
Gyldenfeldt was born the son of a higher Prussian official and served in the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment during World War I , where he achieved the rank of lieutenant . He continued his career in the Reichswehr and embarked on the career of a general staff officer.
Gyldenfeldt served at the beginning of the Second World War as First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 212th Infantry Division with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . In the first phase of the western campaign he was a liaison officer of the OKH to the Kleist tank group . At the end of May 1940 he was appointed Ia in the General Staff of the 9th Army , in which position he remained until March 1941. After a short stay in the Führerreserve , he was then employed as an adjutant in the Army High Command and from June until his dismissal in December 1941 as First General Staff Officer with the Army Commander-in-Chief, Walther von Brauchitsch .
In May 1942 Gyldenfeldt became the first general staff officer of the provisional staff of the later Army Group A under Wilhelm List , which had the task of advancing into the Caucasus as part of the German summer offensive. He remained in this position until July of the following year. He was then promoted to major general, appointed German general at the Italian Army High Command 11 in the Balkans, and as such was involved in the Axis case . From autumn 1943 to May 1944 Gyldenfeldt was Chief of Staff of the 4th Army on the Eastern Front before he was appointed Chief of General Staff to the newly formed Army Group G in southern France. Relocated to the Führerreserve in September 1944, he returned to the Balkans in October as Chief of Staff of Army Group F / Commander in Chief Southeast. His last position from the end of March 1945 was that of the Chief of Staff of Army Group South , which he held until the end of the war. He was released from internment in December 1947.
Gyldenfeldt wrote several papers for the Historical Division of the US Army, including during his time in the OKH.
Awards
- German cross in gold on July 28, 1943
literature
- Dermot Bradley , Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: The Generals of the Army 1921-1945, Volume 4 Fleck-Gyldenfeldt , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-2488-3 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyldenfeldt, Heinz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1971 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |