Hubertus-Maria von Heigl

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Hubertus-Maria Heigl , knight of Heigl since 1917 , (born November 10, 1897 in Siegenburg , † January 24, 1985 in Munich ) was a German officer , most recently Major General of the Pioneers in World War II .

Life

origin

Marienplatz 9, Siegenburg. The house where Hubertus-Maria von Heigl was born

He was the son of the chief forest inspector Adalbert Heigl and his wife Wilhelmine, nee Lang.

Military career

Heigl appeared on 12 July 1915 as an ensign in the 4th Infantry Regiment "King Wilhelm of Württemberg" of the Bavarian Army and graduated from September 1 to November 6, 1915 an officer training course at the army school in Döberitz . This is followed by his commanding for further training at the military school in Grafenwöhr . After returning to his regiment, he was first used on the Western Front on March 1, 1916 . A short time later he was promoted to lieutenant on June 2, 1916 and appointed deputy company commander on January 17, 1917. As a result, Heigl completed a course to become a company commander, followed by a training course in light mine throwers and a course in the storm battalion of the XII. Army Corps . He was then transferred to the Eastern Front with his regiment . During the fighting in Jakobstadt succeeded in conquering the Vorwerkes Malkaln at him with his 4th Company Daugava . He was able to bring in 400 prisoners and four machine guns . For this act Heigl was on September 21, 1917 by King Ludwig III. entrusted with the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Heigl after being entered in the nobility register . On October 15, 1917, he was assigned to the regimental staff as an orderly officer . The regiment moved back to the Western Front at the end of December 1917. Heigl was appointed Deputy Regimental Adjutant on June 8, 1918 and Adjutant of the 1st Battalion on August 19, 1918.

After the end of the war, on April 9, 1919, he briefly joined the Probstmayer Detachment in Donauwörth as an adjutant . Heigl was in the Reichswehr taken and completed at the same time a study of law at the University of Würzburg . In the Reichswehr he was first used as a platoon leader in the 8th Company of Infantry Regiment 21 . On October 1, 1924, he was appointed adjutant of the training battalion. As such, he received his promotion to first lieutenant on July 31, 1925, and from April 7 to August 20, 1926, he was assigned to the weapons training course in Dresden . On January 15, 1928, he took over as chief of the 4th Company. From January 1, 1929 to April 30, Heigl was a teacher and supervisory officer at the pioneer school in Munich . There he was promoted to captain on December 1, 1932 . On May 1, 1933, he was transferred to the staff of Pioneer Battalion 5 in Ulm . Before he was appointed as a teacher at the war school in Dresden on July 1, 1937, Heigl was a company commander in various pioneer battalions in Munich and Ingolstadt . He was then employed from October 12, 1937 as a teacher at the War Academy in Berlin . He had received his promotion to major on August 1, 1936.

On August 26, 1939, Heigl was transferred from the War Academy to the Führer Reserve for the first time , before he was appointed commander of the Pioneer Battalion 70 on October 1, 1939 after the Second World War. With this unit he was involved in the attack on Poland , in the campaign against France and in Operation Barbarossa . In southern Russia he was promoted to colonel on March 1, 1942 , and on April 15, 1942, he was appointed to the staff of the 11th Army Pioneer Leader . From there, on April 1, 1943, he was reassigned to the Führer Reserve, which was to last until January 19, 1944.

On January 20, 1944, he was appointed to represent the General of the Pioneers in Army Group Center and on November 7, 1944, he was appointed General of the Pioneers in the Army Group. As such, he worked from January 25, 1945 in Army Group North . On April 14, he was briefly transferred to the Führerreserve for the last time and from April 17, 1945, he was assigned to Army Group Northwest . Shortly before the end of the war, on April 20, 1945, he was promoted to major general. After the total German surrender on May 8, 1945, Heigl fell into British captivity , from which he was released on July 25, 1947.

Hubertus-Maria von Heigl, the last knight of the Military Max Joseph Order, died on January 24, 1985.

Awards

literature

  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914–1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966.
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1999. ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Mittler & Sohn publishing house. Berlin 1930. p. 159.
  2. 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. 374.
  3. ^ Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914-1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966. p. 312.