Infantry schools for flagjunkers
The infantry schools for flagjunkers were military schools for flagjunkers in the infantry of the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War , they emerged from the infantry officer candidate schools in 1942/43 .
Headquarters
The commander of the cadet schools of the infantry was in since February 1, 1944 Bornstedt (Potsdam) .
- Commanders
- Major General Heinrich Bürcky
- Major General Erich Hassenstein .
schools
I.
Erected in Dresden on February 1, 1942.
- Commanders
- Colonel / Major General Wilhelm Thomas (1941/42)
- Colonel Heinrich Kreipe (1942/43)
- Colonel / Major General Erich Hassenstein (1943/44)
- Colonel Kuno Dewitz (1944)
- Major / Lieutenant Colonel Hans Becker (1945)
II
Emerged in Wiener Neustadt on January 23, 1944 as a war school for infantry cadets from School II for Infantry Officer Candidates (1942).
- Commanders
- Colonel Alexander Gloss
- Colonel Kuno Dewitz
- Major Krause.
III
In Bornstedt (Potsdam) emerged on June 10, 1942 from parts of the Döberitz infantry school ; also training of officer candidates for the propaganda company
- Commanders
- Colonel Hans Radisch
- Colonel Friedrich-August Schack
- Colonel Kühn
IV
The school was set up in Ohrdruf and built on June 15, 1942 in Thorn with three rifle and one heavy artillery inspection. From April 23, 1943, it was called School IV for Infantry Squads . On January 14, 1945, the school formed the Gneisenau unit 4 / XX with regimental staff , 3 battalion staff and 10 companies to secure the Thorn fortress . One of the chief inspectors was Herbert Weiß .
- commander
- Colonel Werner Dürking (1942–1944)
V
Emerged on June 10, 1942 from parts of the infantry school in Dallgow-Döberitz ; Relocated to Posen on September 27, 1942 .
- Commanders
- Colonel Rudolf Goltzsch (1942)
- Colonel Wilhelm Falley (1942/43)
- Colonel / Major General Ernst Gonell (1943–1945)
VI
In Beverloo on October 10, 1942, emerged from an officer trainee course of the Army High Command ; Relocated to the CdZ Lorraine region on April 23, 1943 for the defense of Metz . Reorganization in Meseritz , relocated to Schwerin in the Meseritz district before the Red Army marched in .
- Commanders
- Colonel Erich Büscher (1942/43)
- Colonel Karl Sievers (1943)
- Colonel Heinz Kokott (1943/44)
- Major General Joachim von Siegroth (1944)
VII
Erected on October 1, 1942 in Milowitz , Bohemia ; of the last three teaching groups, the second was in Jülich
- commander
- Colonel Heinrich Bürcky (1942–1944)
VIII
Set up with three teaching groups in August / October 1942 in Hanover ; Relocated to Wetzlar in 1944 .
- Commanders
- Colonel Josef Brüning (1942–1944)
- Colonel Helmut Hipp (1944)
IX
Set up with two teaching groups on January 7, 1943 in Hagenau , Alsace ; on September 13, 1944 transferred to Randers , Denmark .
- commander
- Colonel / Major General Adolf Raegener (1944/45)
X
On November 15, 1944 in Hanover, emerged from a Fahnenjunker course at the Army NCO schools in Hohensalza and Mewe ; Moved to Neuchâtel / Elbe near Prague in 1945 .
Individual evidence
- ^ JC Allmayer-Beck
- ↑ Gertrud Buttlar: Wiener Neustadt: History, Art, Culture, Economy , Braumüller, 1993, p. 495. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).
- ↑ Thorn Fortress (1945)
literature
- Joh. Christoph Allmayer-Beck: Military Academy - War School - Fahnenjunker School: Wiener Neustadt 1938–1945 . Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78459-3