Herbert Hole

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Emil Herbert Loch (born August 5, 1886 in Oberstein , † October 28, 1975 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German artillery general in World War II .

Life

Herbert Loch (back) with Maximilian Freiherr von Weichs (front) in September 1941 on the Eastern Front near Tschernigow

Herbert Loch joined the Fahnenjunker on April 1, 1905, in the 5th field artillery regiment “King Alfons XIII. von Spanien "joined the Bavarian Army and advanced to lieutenant after graduating from military school in Munich in early March 1907 . Initially as first lieutenant and adjutant of the mounted division , he took part in the fighting on the western front after the beginning of the First World War and rose to captain in mid-June 1916 . As such, he led the 2nd and later the riding division. For his work, Loch received the Order of Military Merit IV Class with Swords and Crown. In addition, both classes of the Iron Cross and the Friedrich August Cross as well as the Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Awarded class with war decorations.

After the end of the war and demobilization , parts of his regular regiment formed the Loch Volunteer Battery named after him in early 1919, which was used by the artillery division of the Bamberg Freikorps in the border guards. The battery was also involved in protecting the legal government and liberating Munich . After the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , this unit was merged with the 4th Battery of the 23rd Reichswehr Artillery Regiment. Loch was accepted into the Reichswehr and was initially an adjutant of Reichswehr Brigade 23.

From October 1934 he was in the Wehrmacht for two years as the commander of the 7th Artillery Regiment of the newly established 7th Infantry Division and then for a year in the same position of the newly established 33rd Artillery Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Division . He was Arko 32 until the takeover of the division command in 1939, which was dissolved with the mobilization in early 1939.

As a commander and major general , he led the newly established 17th Infantry Division from April 1939 through the beginning of World War II to the end of October 1941 during the attack on Poland and after his promotion to lieutenant general in the western campaign in early March 1940 . In this capacity, Loch received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on June 16, 1940

At the beginning of June 1941, at Operation Barbarossa and the 4th Army, the division advanced to the east, at the end of June / beginning of July 1941 the Kesselschlacht near Białystok and Minsk and then until September 1941 the Kesselschlacht near Smolensk . He witnessed the beginning of the Battle of Moscow at the beginning of October 1941 as commander of the division, now with the 2nd Army .

Herbert Loch saw an important value for the soldiers in sport. So he let his soldiers compete against each other in football . I.a. In the summer of 1940 there was a game in Ghent between the Burgsterner , members of the division's 17 intelligence department, against the division's 21st infantry regiment. The Wehrmacht team MSV Burgstern Noris was mentioned for the first time in October 1940. In the team played among others Eduard Schaffer , Hans Uebelein and his brother Julius Uebelein .

After his promotion to General of the Artillery, who had received the German Cross in Gold on April 22, 1942, Loch then took over the XXVIII as Commanding General until the end of March 1944 . Army Corps . From the end of May to the end of June 1943, Lieutenant General Otto Sponheimer represented Loch. The XXVIII. Army Corps operated from the end of October 1943 to the beginning of December 1943 as Army Group Loch, but was then renamed back to the original Army Group. Chief of Staff of the army group was Colonel Eugen Theilacker and Ia was the later Bundeswehr general Gerd Kobe .

From the end of March 1944 to the beginning of September 1944 he was entrusted as the successor to Colonel General Georg Lindemann with the leadership of the 18th Army , which was involved in the Pskov-Ostrower operation in July 1944 . He then became the commander of the Higher Command "Eifel" until the end of the war.

Loch was a US prisoner of war from April 16, 1945 until his release on March 23, 1948 .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): 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. Volume 7: Knabe-Luz. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2004, ISBN 3-7648-2902-8 , pp. 577-578.
  • Wolfgang Keilig : The generals of the army. Podzun, 1983, p. 207.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Kollman: Das Kgl. Bayer. 5th Field Artillery Regiment King Alfonso XIII. of Spain: regimental staff, I., II., III. (F) Department, by Walter Kollman. The riding department, by Herbert Loch . Verlag Bayerisches Kriegsarchiv, 1926, p. xxxvii ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  2. ^ Reichswehr Ministry ((Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1924, p. 145.
  3. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part IX: Field Artillery. Volume 1, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-15-1 , p. 503.
  4. ↑ Walter Kollman: The Kgl. Bayer. 5th Field Artillery Regiment King Alfonso XIII. of Spain: regimental staff, I., II., III. (F) Department, by Walter Kollman. The riding department, by Herbert Loch . Verlag Bayerisches Kriegsarchiv, 1926, p. 167 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  5. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 60 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  6. ↑ 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 , p. 511.
  7. ↑ Andreas Bode: Football at the time of National Socialism: everyday life, media, arts, stars . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-020103-3 , pp. 76 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  8. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: Men of Barbarossa: Commanders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941 . Casemate, 2009, ISBN 978-1-935149-66-8 , pp. 254 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian: Elite in the penumbra: Generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr . Osning, 2005, ISBN 978-3-9806268-3-5 , pp. 163 ( google.de [accessed on May 30, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Hürter: Hitler - New Research . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-055560-8 , p. 193 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hole, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loch, Emil Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artillery general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstein
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1975
Place of death Landau in the Palatinate