Hermann Wulf

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Hermann Wulf (born July 25, 1915 in Eichede , Stormarn; † May 19, 1990 in Henstedt-Ulzburg ) was a German officer, doctor and manager. As a Wehrmacht officer, he received the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross. His last position in the Bundeswehr was Brigadier General.

Life

After graduating from high school, Wulf was drafted into the Reich Labor Service . On October 1, 1934, he joined the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr . He became an officer candidate and trained at the Dresden War School and the Döberitz Infantry School. After being promoted to lieutenant in 1937, he was used as a platoon leader in Infantry Regiment 47 and 76 respectively. During the Second World War he was u. a. Used as intelligence officer , company commander and battalion commander in France and on the Eastern Front. In 1943 he became a majorpromoted. As a lieutenant colonel he was assigned to the command post of the 76th Panzer Grenadier Regiment. He came to the same position in 1945 with the Führer-Escort Regiment . From May to October 1945 he was a Soviet prisoner of war until he managed to escape to the western occupation zones .

After the war he worked in his own import and export company and earned his living as a scrap diver. He then studied medicine at the University of Hamburg and became a member of the Old Rostock Burschenschaft Obotritia zu Hamburg . In 1955 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He spent his time as an assistant at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). After that he worked at Elim Hospital .

In 1956 he joined the army of the newly established Bundeswehr, where he became commander of the Panzergrenadier training battalion. He completed the brigade leader course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) and became teaching group commander at the Army Officer School II (HOS II) in Hamburg. When he was promoted to colonel in 1963, he became school commander of the ABC and Self-Protection School (ABC / SeS) in Sonthofen. Afterwards he was commander of the Army Officer School II in Hamburg. In 1967 he became a brigadier general. He was retired four years later.

He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. During the 1968 movement , he and a number of other soldiers, plainclothes police, church officials, theology students and other people wanted to prevent a service in the main church of St. Michael from being disrupted by activists of the Socialist German Student Union . According to the activists, a disturbance was not planned and a discussion during and after the service was refused.

After his service, Wulf was managing director of the general air airline in Hamburg. In addition to Eike Middeldorf , he was one of the first former generals in the aviation industry in Germany.

War awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Milenz: To the beginnings of the Corps Albertina in Hamburg . Unpublished manuscript, begun June 1993, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the UV absorption of hyaline in vocal cord polyps
  3. ^ "Hamburger Panzer-Bataillon" in Munsterlager . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 6, 1956.
  4. ^ Bonn presents itself to General Hermann Wulf . In: Die Welt , February 14, 1968, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Mookt wi . In: Der Spiegel , Issue 4, January 22, 1968, pp. 27–28.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar : 1968. The year that changed everything . Piper, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-492-04058-6 , p. 20.
  7. ↑ Flight 005 . In: Der Spiegel , Issue 24, June 5, 1972, pp. 52–53.
  8. ^ Joachim Wölfer: German Passenger Aviation from 1955 to the present day . Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0477-4 , p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, manager and officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichede , Stormarn
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1990
Place of death Henstedt-Ulzburg