Jesco von Puttkamer (officer)
Jesco Eugen Bernhard Wilhelm von Puttkamer (born August 26, 1876 in Berlin , † March 25, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in World War II .
Life
After attending various schools in Trier , Metz and Wollstein, Jesco von Puttkamer joined the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 in 1896 , and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1897 .
In 1902 he joined the protection force in Cameroon , where he was initially employed as an adjutant to the command of the protection force. In December 1903 he was transferred to Bamenda as a company officer and took part in an expedition against Congoa in early 1904 and in the same year in the war against the Anyang in the Ossidinge district . From 1905 to 1907 he was involved in the subjugation of the south-east of the colony as part of the southern expedition . From 1908 to 1911 he served as a governor's adjutant in Buëa . In the course of taking New Cameroon into administration , he occupied the Mbaiki station in February 1913 and, as leader of the 6th Company, became the head of the newly formed district of Central Sanga-Lobaje.
On his return trip to Europe, surprised by the outbreak of World War I , Puttkamer came back to Germany via Brazil and Norway, formally resigned from the protection force in October 1914 and took part in the campaign in the west, most recently as regimental commander. For a time he was assigned to the general command in Brussels to carry out special tasks in the Belgian Congo for colonial administration .
At Christmas 1918 Puttkamer led his regiment back to Rostock and disbanded it. From the remains he formed in January 1919, the Mecklenburg Volunteer Battalion von Puttkamer with location Ludwigslust that on 1 May 1919 in the new Reichswehr accepted and the 17th Infantry Division was assumed. In the 1920s he was a major and senior officer in Eutin , commander of the guard regiment in Berlin and, most recently, commander of the Döberitz military training area (from 1929). On January 31, 1932, he was adopted with the character of major general and the right to wear the general's uniform. In 1933 he was reactivated, enlisted in the Wehrmacht and appointed military district commander in the Stargard and Prenzlau districts. In 1936 he left active service.
In the Second World War he was reactivated and was, among other things, commander of the officer prisoner camp II A in Prenzlau, in 1940 of the Oflag II C in Woldenberg (Neumark) and commander of the prisoner of war camp in Wehrkreis XVIII (Carinthia / Salzburg / Styria) . In 1940 he advanced to major general z. V., 1942 to lieutenant general z. V. In August 1942 he was finally given retirement.
When the war ended lived Puttkamer in Neustrelitz , where before the threat of arrest from it in 1952 by the NKVD in the Federal Republic fled. Most recently he lived in Wiesbaden. In 1952, the City Council of Neustrelitz made his ethnographic collection available to the Institute for Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
The journalist of the same name Jesco von Puttkamer was his son.
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle IV class with swords
- Order of the Crown IV. Class with swords
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Wound badge (1918) in black
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Order of Frederick
- Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
- Knight's Cross of the Mecklenburg Order of Griffins
- Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross 1st Class
- Mecklenburg Cross for distinction in the war, 1st class
- Hanseatic Cross Lübeck
swell
- Federal Archives-Military Archives Freiburg, Pers. 6/5775 (personnel file)
literature
- Florian Hoffmann: Occupation and military administration in Cameroon. Establishment and institutionalization of the colonial monopoly of violence 1891–1914 . Göttingen 2007
- Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , pp. 315-316
Web links
- Jesco von Puttkamer on the side of the Association of the von Puttkamer family (with picture)
- On Puttkamer's article (still as captain): "The current state of railway construction in our colonies" 1912 in the magazine "Süssenrotters Kolonialkalender" (On the East African Central Railway in German East Africa , later also called " Tanganyika Railway ". Connection with Dar es Salaam )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 111
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puttkamer, Jesco from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puttkamer, Jesco Eugen Bernhard Wilhelm von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1959 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |