Joachim von Stülpnagel

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Joachim Fritz Constantin von Stülpnagel (born March 5, 1880 in Glogau , † May 17, 1968 in Oberaudorf ) was a German infantry general and later worked in the publishing industry.

Life

origin

Joachim was the son of the later Prussian infantry general Ferdinand von Stülpnagel and his wife Marie Klara Rosalie Franziska Antonie, née Bronsart von Schellendorff (born April 8, 1854 in Berlin, † June 20, 1932 in Heinersdorf). She was the daughter of the later Prussian Minister of War Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff .

Military career

Stülpnagel attended high schools in Königsberg and Breslau and then from April 1892 the cadet houses in Potsdam and Groß-Lichterfelde. During this time Stülpnagel was also the emperor's body page. Three years later, on March 15, 1898, he joined the 1st Guard Regiment on foot in the Prussian Army in Potsdam as a second lieutenant . After several stays in Geneva and Paris from 1900 to 1904, he was transferred to Darmstadt in February 1904 in the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 . After training as a staff officer in the Prussian War Academy in October 1906 he joined on April 1, 1910 in the General Staff and was active there in the staging department. When the First World War broke out , Stülpnagel was a general staff officer in the X. Army Corps , later he served with the 11th Army in the Balkans and in the last year of the war on the Western Front . In September 1918 he was appointed as a major head of the operations department in the Supreme Army Command in Spa . He held this post beyond the end of the war until the OHL was dissolved in 1919.

From 1920 Stülpnagel worked in the Reichswehr Ministry , where he was initially responsible for personnel matters for general staff officers. In 1922 he became head of the Army Department (T 1) in the Army Office . After his promotion to colonel in early 1926, he was transferred to Braunschweig for one year as commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment . He then took over the management of the Army Personnel Office and was promoted to major general in April 1928 . In October 1929 Stülpnagel was promoted to lieutenant general and commander in military district III (Berlin) . When Wilhelm Heye resigned as Chief of the Army Command at the end of 1930, the ambitious and self-confident Stülpnagel was the first candidate for his successor, which, however, was prevented by Kurt von Schleicher , who not wrongly feared a curtailment of his influence as Chief of the Ministerial Office. Deeply disappointed, Stülpnagel left military service at his own request on December 31, 1931, where he was given the character of General of the Infantry.

During the national crisis of the winter of 1932/33, Stülpnagel was temporarily under discussion as the new Reichswehr Minister in a Hitler-Papen cabinet. In 1939 he was briefly reactivated as commander of the replacement army , but released again after a few days because he had described Hitler's war policy as a catastrophe.

Civil life

On January 1, 1932, he joined the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung and became its managing director. On October 1, 1936, he founded the Wehrmacht publishing house. In 1943 the Nazi press office expropriated both the newspaper and the publisher. In connection with the attempted coup on July 20, 1944 , in which his relative Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel and his son-in-law Hans-Alexander von Voss were involved, Stülpnagel was arrested on August 16, 1944. On November 5, 1944, however, he was released unharmed.

family

On September 28, 1905, he married Irmgard von Kracht († 1974).

Awards

literature

  • Irene Strenge : Kurt von Schleicher. Politics in the Reichswehr Ministry at the end of the Weimar Republic. (= Research on contemporary history. Vol. 29). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-428-12112-0 , register of persons.
  • Jürgen Kilian: "We want to take over the spiritual leadership of the army". The informal group of general staff officers around Joachim von Stülpnagel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Willisen and Kurt von Schleicher, in: Gundula Gahlen, Daniel M. Segesser, Carmen Winkel (ed.): Geheime Netzwerk im Militär 1700–1945, Paderborn 2016, p. 167 -183, ISBN 978-3-50677781-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 8, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 367632837 , pp. 416-417, no. 2675.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. Ed .: War Ministry . Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son . Berlin 1914. p. 85.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 119.
  4. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1905/1906, p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Stülpnagel, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stülpnagel, Joachim Fritz Constantin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1968
Place of death Oberaudorf