Herbert Weiß (civil servant)
Herbert Weiß (born November 1, 1899 in Dresden , † February 19, 1945 in Eichendorffmühl, Ratibor district ) was a German administrative officer . As a soldier he fought in both world wars , most recently as major in the reserve and regimental commander in the army of the Wehrmacht .
Life
After graduating from secondary school in Berlin-Neukölln , Weiss entered the administrative career of the statutory accident insurance as a candidate . After the outbreak of the First World War , he volunteered for the Prussian Army at the age of 17 . He was trained in Infantry Regiment No. 610 and came to the Western Front in May 1918 with 7th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 69 . Wounded in the neck by shrapnel in August 1918, he stayed with the troops. As a private he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Until the November Revolution he took part in all combat operations of the regiment.
Discharged from the army in 1919 , he continued his administrative career in social insurance during the Weimar Republic . In 1930 he became a bailiff and in 1939 deputy managing director of the professional association for health services and welfare in Berlin . As a reserve officer candidate , he performed military exercises with the Brandenburg Infantry Regiment 68 of the 23rd Infantry Division . There he was lieutenant in the reserve from 1938 . He volunteered as a sub-group leader in the Reich Air Protection Association .
When the Second World War broke out , he was drafted into Infantry Regiment 466 ( 257th Infantry Division ) and used in the raid on Poland until the regiment was relocated to the Western Front in late 1939 . As a first lieutenant in the reserve and company commander , he took part in the western campaign. In October 1940 he became company commander in Infantry Regiment 418 ( 123rd Infantry Division ), which advanced on June 22, 1941 from East Prussia against Leningrad . On July 21, 1941 he was seriously wounded east of Dünaburg by a machine gun shot in the right thigh. With the Iron Cross 1st Class he returned to his regiment on the war front southeast of Lake Ilmen in April 1942 . He was promoted to Captain of the Reserve on May 1, 1942 , and was entrusted with the command of the 2nd Battalion. To defend a strategically important railway line , on September 25, 1942, with two platoons of his battalion , he threw back far superior enemy forces in a rapid counterattack. He was seriously wounded again by a shot in the left shoulder. In the hospital he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on January 7, 1943 . As Reich Labor Minister, Franz Seldte congratulated him . After promotion to major in the Reserve on 1 March 1943, he was from April 1943 to January 1945 training officer and company commander at the school for IV cadet of infantry in West Prussia Thorn .
On February 3, 1945, he took over as regiment commander of the newly established 1243 Grenadier-Führer Regiment in Potsdam , with whom he moved ten days later to the 1st Skijäger Division at the front near Ratibor in Upper Silesia . He was killed in a scouting and raiding operation that he himself ran on the Oder . He was recovered and buried on March 3, 1945 in a funeral with military honors in Ratibor. According to the German-Polish neighborhood treaty (1991), Weiß was reburied in the German military cemetery near Laurahütte .
White left behind his wife and two sons. Egbert Weiß was a judge at the Supreme Court . Helmut Weiss was Division President in the Federal Insurance Office and later Ministerialrat at the Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag .
Publications
- Accident insurance for voluntary NSV and WHW helpers. In: Reich Association of Local Health Insurance Funds: The Local Health Insurance Fund. Berlin. 25th year. No. 31 of November 1, 1938.
literature
- Knight's Cross from the Sachsengau. In: Sachsen, magazine of the Heimatwerk Sachsen. 7th year. Dresden September 1943. Portrait photo p. 15.
- Gerhard von Seemen: The knight's cross bearers 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag. 1987. ISBN 3-7909-0051-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Curriculum vitae with professional and military career in: NS Beamten-Zeitung Der Sozialversicherungs-Beamte , student council of civil servants of social administrations and corporations under public law, Berlin, 12th year, no. 3/4 (1943), with portrait photo
- ↑ Walterscheid: 7th Rheinisches Infanterie-Regiment No. 69. In: Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres (Ed.), Tradition des Deutschen Heeres, Issue 81, Kyffhäuser Verlag 1938, pp. 9-19 ( GoogleBooks )
- ↑ 7. Rheinisches Inf.-Reg.
- ↑ The siren. Newspaper of the Reich Air Protection Association No. 7/1943. P. 80 (with portrait photo).
- ↑ Press releases: Völkischer Beobachter of January 14, 1943
- ↑ Neuköllner Tageblatt. Announcement sheet of the Reich and state authorities. 52nd year. No. 11 of January 14, 1943.
- ↑ 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. 775.
- ^ Official news for Reichsversicherung No. 3/1943. II 39.
- ^ Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German armed forces and Waffen SS in World War II. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1976. Volume 2. P. 25 (1. Skijäger-Division), Volume 13. P. 342 (Grenadier Regiment 1243).
- ↑ Death report from division commander Gustav Hundt dated March 1, 1945 in the Egbert Weiß family archive.
- ↑ Files of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV federal office. Process 28892 / Poland.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | White, Herbert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and reserve officer in the Wehrmacht |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1945 |
Place of death | Eichendorffmühl, Ratibor district |