Hellmut Arnold (General)
Hellmut Arnold (born September 26, 1921 in Oberlichtenau ) is a former lieutenant general of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic .
Military career
As the son of a retailer, Arnold learned the trade of a baker from 1936 to 1940 after attending eighth grade . He was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service , which he left in 1941 to work as a cook in the Wehrmacht . At the end of the war he held the rank of corporal .
After brief British internment, Arnold worked as a baker until 1946. In that year he also joined the SED . On May 1, 1946, he joined the German People's Police and was initially employed there until 1949 by the Police in the People's Police District Offices in Rochlitz and Grossenhain . From 1949 to 1950 Arnold completed a special course in the USSR . After his return to the GDR he was initially employed as chief of staff of the People's Police Readiness Leipzig I until 1952 . This readiness was an infantry readiness (Category A) of the Central Training Administration of the Ministry of the Interior. With the establishment of the barracked people's police in 1952, Arnold was transferred to the rank of lieutenant colonel as chief of staff in the territorial administration of Kochstedt near Dessau , and later to Schwerin . This was followed by the position of Chief of Staff of the CIP Readiness in Erfurt from 1953 to 1954 . On September 1, 1954, Arnold, now a colonel, was appointed Chief of Staff of the now newly established Territorial Administration South of the KVP.
Even after the conversion of the KVP into the NVA, Arnold retained his position and rank. Military District III of the NVA had now emerged from the Territorial Administration South , so that Arnold was now deputy chief and chief of staff of Military District III, based in Leipzig. On August 1, 1961, Arnold was replaced by Colonel Fritz Streletz and then studied at the General Staff Academy of the USSR until 1963. After his return to the GDR he was Deputy Chief of the Main Staff for Organization in the Ministry of National Defense (MfNV) until his discharge from active military service on January 31, 1982 . He was named major general on October 4, 1966 and promoted to lieutenant general on March 1, 1974.
Awards
- 1960 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1979 Honorary Degree of Honored Member of the National People's Army
- 1981 bar of honor for the Ernst Schneller Medal in gold
- 1981 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
literature
- Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. Christoph-Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 , p. 68 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Torsten Diedrich , Rüdiger Wenzke: The camouflaged army history of the barracked people's police of the GDR 1952-1956. Christoph-Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-242-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1981, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnold, Hellmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lieutenant General of the NVA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberlichtenau |