Hellmuth Laegeler

Hellmuth Laegeler (born January 22, 1902 in Ulm , † July 13, 1972 in Stuttgart ) was a German major general in the army of the Wehrmacht and later in the Bundeswehr .

Career

Reichswehr

Promotions

• 1921 flag boy
• December 1, 1924 Lieutenant ( appointment )
• April 1, 1928 First Lieutenant
• July 1, 1934 Captain

Laegeler was the son of an officer. After graduating from high school, he joined the Reichswehr as a volunteer on April 26, 1921 , where he initially served as a flag junior with the 13th (Württemberg) Infantry Regiment in Ludwigsburg. He attended the infantry schools in Ohrdruf and Munich. From 1924 to 1933 he was a platoon leader , orderly officer and intelligence officer. From 1933 to 1935 he completed the general staff course at the War Academy in Berlin.

Wehrmacht

Promotions

• June 1, 1939 Major
• March 1, 1942 Lieutenant Colonel
• 1st January 1943 Colonel
• March 1, 1945 Major General (appointment)

In 1935/36 he was Ib of the 17th Division in Nuremberg and in 1936/37 of the 33rd Division . In 1936 he took part in the occupation of the Rhineland . From 1937 to 1939 he was a consultant in the 2nd department at the Army General Staff . At the beginning of the Second World War he was from August 26, 1939 to September 20, 1940 First General Staff Officer (I a) of the newly formed 263rd Infantry Division and took part in the attack on Poland . Then he came to the 76th Infantry Division . January / February 1942 he was with the Führerreserve .

In 1942 he was temporarily a teacher at the War Academy. Until the summer of 1944 he took part in the retreat from Russia as chief of the staff of a tank corps. In July 1944 he fell ill with jaundice and spent until January 1945 in the Tübingen military convalescent home. From February to May 1945 he was Chief of the General Staff at the Commander of the Replacement Army in Berlin. He became an American prisoner of war and was brought to the United States.

After his release in November 1946, he returned to Germany and worked at Gestaltungsring Stuttgart until 1948 , then at Zweckform Schreibwaren und Bürobedarfs GmbH in Upper Bavaria.

armed forces

From 1952 he worked in the Blank office. He was a member of the German delegation to the Interim Committee of the European Defense Community in Paris. He was appointed head of the Army Department in the Blank Office and was appointed to the Executive Council of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. In 1955 he became the first major general in the Bundeswehr. From 1955 to 1961 he was deputy head or acting head of Department V (Army) at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn.

From November 1955 to January 1956 he completed a fitness exercise. From May 1957 he commanded the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division in Regensburg before taking up his position as commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg on October 1, 1959 . His retirement took place on March 31, 1962.

Laegeler was married. His tombstone is in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart .

Awards

• 1942: German cross in gold
• 1943: Honorary sheet clasp of the Army
• Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Hellmuth Laegeler , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/1969 of August 11, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Dermot Bradley , Karl Friedrich Hildebrand , Markus Brockmann : The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general (= Germany's generals and admirals; Part IV). Volume 7: Boy - Luz . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2004, ISBN 3-7648-2902-8 , pp. 348-349.
• Dermot Bradley, Heinz-Peter Würzenthal , Hansgeorg Model : The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. 1955-1999. the military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals; part VIb). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 978-3-7648-2382-5 , pp. 1-2.

Web links

• Photo , leadership academy of the Bundeswehr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hellmuth Laegeler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Former commanders of the command academy , command academy of the Bundeswehr.
3. ↑ Stuttgart, Waldfriedhof. Abbot 15-grave 10596 , ww2gravestone.