Horst Stumpff

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Horst Stumpff (born November 20, 1887 in Gießen ; † November 25, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German general in the armored forces of the Wehrmacht in World War II .

Life

In 1907 Stumpff joined the infantry regiment "von der Goltz" (7th Pomeranian) No. 54 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . In 1913 he was commanded as a lieutenant from here to the cadet house in Potsdam . He served in World War I , received both classes of the Iron Cross and was accepted into the Reichswehr at the end of the war .

In October 1935 Stumpff was appointed commander of the newly established 3rd Rifle Regiment in Altengrabow , later Eberswalde ; organizationally subordinated to the 3rd Panzer Division and tactically subordinate to the 3rd Rifle Brigade; and later charged with leading the 3rd Rifle Brigade at the same time. In 1938 he succeeded Lieutenant General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg as commander of the 3rd Panzer Brigade. Subsequently, after the beginning of the Second World War, Stumpff was, from October 1939 to November 1940, interrupted for two months, in representation by Major General Friedrich Kühn, commander of the 3rd Panzer Division. In November 1940 he was commander of the newly established 20th Panzer Division , promoted to Lieutenant General at the beginning of February 1941 and stayed that way until mid-September 1941. With the division he was involved in the Białystok and Minsk Kessel Battle and the Smolensk Kessel Battle . The conditions on the Eastern Front meant that his health deteriorated, he had to give up his command and he was ordered back from the front. On September 29, 1941 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

He stayed in the Führerreserve for eight months and was then transferred to the replacement army in 1942 . From April 1942 he was military inspector of the Königsberg recruiting area . Later he was commanded as General zbV to the General Inspector of the Armored Forces. On November 9, 1944, he was in the new position as general of the armored troops West (Leo Geyr of Schweppenburg the agency in January was up to the first resolution in 1944 general of the armored troops West have been) promoted to General of the Armored Corps. When General of the Panzer Troops West at the beginning of September 1944, the 9th Panzer Division could not be replenished with tank destroyers and weapons as planned. At the end of November 1944, he presented a war tactic for the use of tank weapons on the Western Front . At the end of the war he went into American captivity.

literature

  • Samuel W. Mitcham Jr .: Panzer Legions - A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of World War II and Their Commanders . Stackpole Books, 2016, p. 155.
  • For information on the operation with the 20th Panzer Division, see Samuel W. Mitcham Jr .: Panzer Commanders of the Western Front - German Tank Generals in World War II. Stackpole Books, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Wegner, Dermot Bradley: The staffing of the active regiments, battalions and departments of the foundation or list until August 26, 1939 . Biblio-Verl., 1993, ISBN 978-3-7648-1779-4 , pp. 528 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Seniority list of officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps . Mittler and Son., 1913, p. 545 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  3. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of World War II and Their Commanders . Stackpole Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4617-5143-4 , pp. 154 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 417 .
  5. ^ Timm Haasler: Hold the Westwall: The History of Panzer Brigade 105, September 1944 . Stackpole Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8117-1056-5 , pp. 95 ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  6. ^ Thomas Anderson: The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 2: 1942-45 . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4728-1449-4 , pp. 251 ff . ( google.com [accessed August 30, 2020]).
  7. ^ The highest military leaders in the Bundeswehr from 1955 to 1990 . S. 66 ( google.de [accessed on August 30, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Stumpff, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General of the Armored Force in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1958
Place of death Hamburg