Helmuth Schlömer

Helmuth Schlömer (born May 20, 1893 in Hausberge on the Weser near Minden ; † August 18, 1995 in Minden-Lübbecke ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Schlömer joined the military in 1913 and served as an officer in the First World War . After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and served in various units. In 1935 he worked as a teacher at the Munich War School. During the Second World War he was in command of the 3rd Motorized Infantry Division .

Schlömer later headed the XIV Panzer Corps as commanding general , which took part in the Battle of Stalingrad as a unit of the 6th Army . Since Colonel-General Friedrich Paulus felt bound by Hitler's order to hold out and refused to surrender as a whole, Lieutenant General Schlömer surrendered on January 29, 1943 as the first of the commanders with the remnants of his tank corps and went into Soviet captivity.

Schlömer was one of fifty generals who called on December 8, 1944 in the appeal “To the people and the Wehrmacht” to end the war and Hitler's tyranny. In 1949 he was released from captivity.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1918) in silver
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st Class (1939)
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
- Knight's Cross on October 2, 1941
- Oak leaves on December 22, 1942 (161st award)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Torsten Diedrich : Paulus. The Stalingrad trauma. A biography. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76403-4 , p. 572.
↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär : Stalingrad - a battle of the Second World War. In: Wolfram Wette , Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): Stalingrad. Myth and Reality of a Battle . 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch 19511, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19511-4 , pp. 18–42, here p. 37.
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr : The Panzer Legions. A guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders. Stackpole Military History, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2007, ISBN 978-0811733533 , p. 263.
↑ Gottfried Hamacher : Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 182.
↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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 .
↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 57, 308 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schlömer, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Local mountains , Minden
DATE OF DEATH	August 18, 1995
Place of death	Minden-Lübbecke

[Diedrich-1] Torsten Diedrich : Paulus. The Stalingrad trauma. A biography. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76403-4 , p. 572.

[2] Gerd R. Ueberschär : Stalingrad - a battle of the Second World War. In: Wolfram Wette , Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): Stalingrad. Myth and Reality of a Battle . 2nd Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch 19511, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19511-4 , pp. 18–42, here p. 37.

[3] Samuel W. Mitcham Jr : The Panzer Legions. A guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders. Stackpole Military History, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2007, ISBN 978-0811733533 , p. 263.

[4] Gottfried Hamacher : Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 182.

[5] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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 .

[6] Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 57, 308 .