Hermann Vogt

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Hermann Vogt (born March 10, 1915 in Bielefeld ; † April 13, 1978 ) was major general of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Vogt, the son of a carpenter, worked as a messenger in a bookstore from 1931 to 1932 after completing secondary school , before joining the Reichswehr as a soldier in 1932 . Over the next ten years he was promoted to sergeant in the infantry of the Wehrmacht and in January 1942 was taken prisoner by the Soviets . Between 1944 and 1945 he was Army Plenipotentiary of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) in the area of ​​the Leningrad Front and the 1st Ukrainian Front .

After his return from captivity, on May 20, 1945, he became head of the protective police at the Dresden Police Headquarters and joined the KPD in August 1945 . After the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he became a member of the SED in 1946 and in 1948 initially head of the border and readiness department in the Weimar police headquarters and the following year head of the Naumburg (Saale) People's Police School . Between 1950 and 1952 he was head of the Zittau VP readiness . After a special course in the Soviet Union , he was appointed head of the barracked people's police station (KVP) in Halle (Saale) in 1953 . On October 11, 1956, he was appointed to the rank of colonel first commander of its successor unit, the 11th Motorized Rifle Division . Subsequently, on August 15, 1960, he became 1st Deputy Chief of Military District III in Leipzig . From 1962 to 1964 he was a graduate of the General Staff Academy of the USSR , from which he graduated with the academic degree of a graduate military scientist.

After his return from the Soviet Union, he was again 1st Deputy Chief of Military District III until 1969, where he was also appointed Major General on March 1, 1966, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the NVA . From 1969 to 1973 he was head of the main military department in the Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Education, before being accredited as a military attaché at the GDR embassy in the Soviet Union on May 1, 1973 . He held this office until his retirement on August 31, 1976. Vogt was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

Awards and honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b People's Army. No. 15/1986
  2. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Erich Volkmann: The Wehrmacht: Myth and Reality. 1999, ISBN 3-486-56383-1 , p. 1133 ( Google books )
  3. ↑ Structure of the 11th MSD ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pib-11.de
  4. ^ New Germany of April 21, 1978
  5. ↑ Honorary name of the NVA ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / frr-5.de
  6. ↑ Tank destroyer associations of the NVA
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1978