Hellmuth Reinhardt
Hellmuth Reinhardt (born June 27, 1900 in Stuttgart ; † September 16, 1989 ) was a German major general in the Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr . He was u. a. Head of studies at the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll and chairman of the Society for Military Studies .
Life
origin
He was the son of the future Lieutenant General Ernst Reinhardt (1870–1939) and his wife Anna, née Wedemeyer. The future general of the infantry Walther Reinhardt (1872–1930) and first chief of the army command of the Reichswehr was an uncle.
Military career
Württemberg Army
Reinhardt attended the humanistic Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart and finished his Abitur at the Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg . As a flag junior , he joined the Grenadier Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württembergisches) No. 119 of the Württemberg Army in Stuttgart on June 12, 1918 during the First World War .
After the end of the war , Reinhardt was given leave of absence to study forest science in Tübingen. He was then a member of a voluntary student company in Stuttgart and u. a. involved in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic .
Reichswehr
On October 1, 1919, he was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr , where he served in the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 25. He attended the infantry school in Munich and Wünsdorf. With the formation of the Reichswehr was created on January 1, 1921 from his previous association , the 13th Infantry Regiment , where he on April 1, 1922 Lieutenant and on February 1, 1927 Lieutenant was promoted. As such, he was appointed adjutant of III in the spring of 1927 . Battalions. Between 1929 and 1932 he acted as a supervisory officer at the infantry school in Dresden . At the beginning of October 1933, Reinhardt was sent to the War Academy in Berlin , and on April 1, 1934, was promoted to captain .
Wehrmacht
From July 1935 he worked in the organization department of the Reich Ministry of War . On October 1, 1936, he was transferred to the Army General Staff . On October 12, 1937 he was promoted to company commander in Infantry Regiment 119 and on June 1, 1938 to major in the General Staff. On November 10, 1938 Reinhardt became Second General Staff Officer (Ib) in the General Command of the V Army Corps in Stuttgart.
With the beginning of the Second World War he acted from September 10, 1939 as First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 4th Panzer Division . After his promotion to lieutenant colonel (November 1, 1940), he became chief of staff at the General Army Office in the Army High Command on November 15 under General Friedrich Olbricht . On June 1, 1942, he was appointed colonel and joined the Führerreserve on December 1, 1943 . As his successor in the General Army Office, he beat Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , whom he already knew from the organization department and who was also an alumni of the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium; he instructed Stauffenberg in his new job.
On April 1, 1944 Reinhardt was appointed Chief of General Staff of on the Eastern Front standing 8th Army appointed and promoted on 1 June of that year to major general. On 7 December 1944, he moved to the same position to the on the Western Front standing 1st Army . On December 28, 1944, until the end of the war in May 1945, he became Chief of the General Staff at the Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief in Denmark (Lindemann Army High Command).
He was u. a. awarded the German Cross in Silver.
armed forces
From June 7, 1945 to April 1, 1948 he was in British captivity (including the Zedelgem POW camp ).
On January 1, 1956, he was taken over as Brigadier General in the Bundeswehr and promoted to Major General of the Bundeswehr on April 5 of the following year. On June 10, 1956, he was appointed chief of the troop office and on October 1, 1960, he was appointed commander in Defense Area V to Stuttgart.
After his adoption on September 30, 1962, he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Others
After being a prisoner of war, he was appointed to work in the Historical Division until 1955 . He worked as a "home worker" for the Operational History (German) Section in Königstein and later in Karlsruhe .
In 1963 he acted for one year as head of studies and head of the department for soldiers' questions at the Evangelical Academy in Bad Boll and between 1965 and 1971 as chairman of the Society for Military Studies .
literature
- Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished? The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961. (= Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 90). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041478-3 , p. 341.
Web links
- Hellmuth Reinhardt , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 31/1963 of July 22, 1963, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Reinhardt, Hellmuth. in the museum center Hanstholm
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Hoffmann : Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The biography . Pantheon, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-55046-5 , p. 314.
- ^ Peter Hoffmann : Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The biography . Pantheon, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-55046-5 , p. 225 f.
- ^ Peter Hoffmann : Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The biography . Pantheon, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-55046-5 , p. 333.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinhardt, Hellmuth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1989 |