Herbert Weiß (civil servant)

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Herbert White (1943)

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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ↑ 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 )
  3. ↑ 7. Rheinisches Inf.-Reg.
  4. ↑ The siren. Newspaper of the Reich Air Protection Association No. 7/1943. P. 80 (with portrait photo).
  5. ↑ Press releases: Völkischer Beobachter of January 14, 1943
  6. ↑ Neuköllner Tageblatt. Announcement sheet of the Reich and state authorities. 52nd year. No. 11 of January 14, 1943.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ^ Official news for Reichsversicherung No. 3/1943. II 39.
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ↑ Death report from division commander Gustav Hundt dated March 1, 1945 in the Egbert Weiß family archive.
  11. ↑ Files of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV federal office. Process 28892 / Poland.
personal data
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