Jobst Hilmar from Bose

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Jobst Hilmar Bodo Alexander Graf von Bose (born September 21, 1897 in Berlin ; † March 26, 1949 in Bamberg ) was a German officer , most recently a colonel in World War II and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

Life

Origin and family

Jobst Hilmar Graf Bose came to the Prussian on April 6, 1880 of count branch of the Saxon mentioned since 1230 raised Uradelsgeschlechtes those from Bose . He was the son of Gebhardt Graf von Bose (1869–1939), Fiedeikommißherr Ellingshausen, district of Meiningen , Saxon Meiningen Chamberlain , and his wife Irene Burggräfin and Countess zu Dohna (1874–1962). He was married since April 28, 1925 to Verena Samson von Himmelstjerna , with whom he had a son and a daughter.

Military career

Following family tradition, Bose chose the profession of career officer . He was educated in the cadet corps from 1911 and in 1914 transferred as an ensign to the Uhlan regiment "Prince August von Württemberg" (Posensches) No. 10 of the Prussian Army in Züllichau . Bose took part in the First World War , mostly in the eastern theater of war , and became a lieutenant . As such, he was dismissed in 1919 in the course of the army reduction imposed on Germany by the Versailles Peace Treaty , but reused since 1920, first as a lieutenant in the Reichswehr , then since 1925 as a first lieutenant and since February 1, 1932 as Rittmeister in the 8th (Prussian) cavalry Regiment . After the National Socialists came to power and the army was expanded by the new government, he became a major in 1936 .

After the outbreak of World War II, he became battalion commander in the 289 infantry regiment in 1939 and took part with this unit in the 1940 campaign in France . He later led his battalion on the Eastern Front after the attack on the Soviet Union . His battalion captured a fortified position in the Stalin line near Detschino and captured 16 heavy anti-aircraft guns of the Red Army . A counterattack by a Soviet regiment threw back his battalion. For this he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on December 4, 1941, now a lieutenant colonel .

In 1942 he was appointed commander of the infantry regiment and promoted to colonel. He was badly wounded in the heavy fighting that year. After his release from the hospital in 1943, he was given command of the 263 Grenadier Regiment, with which he was deployed in Normandy in 1944 during the Allied invasion . From April 25, 1945 he was the last commander of the 711th Infantry Division

After his release from captivity , he lived in Bamberg, where he died on March 26, 1949.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 236.
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1974, pp. 26f.
  3. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1974, pp. 40f.
  4. ↑ a b c d Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1932, p. 150.
personal data
SURNAME Bose, Jobst Hilmar from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bose, Jobst Hilmar Bodo Alexander Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1949
Place of death Bamberg