Jürgen Tegethoff

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Jürgen Tegethoff (born September 24, 1924 in Königswinter ) is a former German soldier and civil servant .

Life

Jürgen Tegethoff grew up in Königswinter . At the age of 17 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in September 1941 after graduating from high school . After training as an officer, he was promoted to lieutenant in December 1942 . Used in a tank regiment on the Eastern Front, he was wounded and spent almost a year in the hospital . He then took part in the Battle of the Bulge as a tank commander of a kings in the heavy tank division 506 .

After the Second World War and his release from captivity, Tegethoff studied law in Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1951 with a dissertation on the delict of the car jumpers . He worked as a judge in Bonn and Cologne. From 1957 he worked for the Federal Ministry of Defense , where he was Ministerialrat in 1965 and then head of division in various departments. From 1970 he was a member of the planning staff of the Federal Armed Forces Minister Helmut Schmidt with the responsibility for "planning control and system development". In mid-1985 he was appointed President of Defense Division IV, which he remained until mid-1989. In April 1989 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit.

Today, as a contemporary witness, he reports on his experiences in the Second World War.

After his retirement in 1989 he lives in Heisterbacherrott .

Publications

  • The delict of auto jumpers , dissertation, Röhrscheid, Bonn 1951.
  • Soldiers supply , Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn 1960 and then in several editions.

literature

  • Biography Jürgen Tegethoff, In: Who's Who in Germany, Oldenbourg Verlag , 1990, p. 1841.
  • Tegethoff, Jürgen. In: Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1987/88. Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 119 ( google.de [accessed December 17, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Tegethoff, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigswinter