Julius Braun (Lieutenant General)

Julius Braun (born March 15, 1895 in Erlangen , † May 8, 1962 in Ellinghoven ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general .

Life

After completing his cadet training, Julius Braun joined the Royal Bavarian Army as an ensign on July 14, 1913 and joined the 6th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment . When the First World War broke out in the summer of 1914, he moved to the front with this regiment as an officer’s deputy and platoon leader . Promoted to lieutenant on September 19, 1914 , at the beginning of summer 1915 he was transferred to the 10th Royal Bavarian Mountain Cannon Battery, where he was also employed as a platoon leader. In autumn 1917 he was deployed for three months at the mountain artillery school in Sonthofen and at the end of 1917 appointed leader of the 10th Royal Bavarian Mountain Gun Battery. He then held this position until the end of the First World War.

After the war he was used again in his old regiment at the beginning of 1919 before he joined the Epp Freikorps in spring 1919 . In the summer of 1919 he became platoon leader in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 21 and when the 100,000-man army of the Reichswehr was formed , he joined the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment . Here he was deployed for the next few years as a battery officer and on October 1, 1924, he was assigned to the staff of the 7th Division of the Reichswehr in Munich for two-year leadership training and promoted to captain on April 1, 1926 . Appointed chief of the 6th (mountain) battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Landsberg am Lech on October 1, 1926 , in the summer of 1930 he was transferred to the staff of the 1st division of the 7th (Bavarian) ) Artillery Regiment to Würzburg. From the summer of 1933 he was deployed at the Dresden Infantry School and promoted to major on July 1, 1934. When the Reichswehr was expanded to include the Wehrmacht , on October 1, 1934, he was appointed commander of the 1st Division of the Nuremberg Artillery Regiment in Ansbach. With the unmasking of the associations he was then on October 15, 1935 commander of the III. Department of the 7th Artillery Regiment in Augsburg. On November 10, 1938, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Division of Artillery Regiment 7 in Munich, and on August 1, 1939, he was appointed commander of the 115 artillery regiment.

At the beginning of the Second World War he led his regiment during the invasion of Poland in the summer of 1939 . In the spring of 1940 he then led the regiment in the western campaign . In early February 1941 he was appointed commander of the 114 Artillery Regiment by renaming his staff. In the spring of 1941 he then led his regiment into the Balkan campaign and then in the summer of 1941 in the eastern campaign during the attack on southern Russia. In the autumn of 1941 he was deployed with his regiment in the Crimea . At the end of September 1942 he gave up his command and was appointed artillery commander 134 (Arko 134). On April 1, 1943, he was promoted to major general and at the end of April 1943 he was added to the Führerreserve . After completing the division leader course in Berlin, he was assigned to Army Group A in July 1943 and in mid-August 1943 commander of the 4th Mountain Division at Kuban . Promoted to Lieutenant General on April 1, 1944, was reassigned to the Führerreserve and on September 1, 1944 appointed Higher Artillery Commander 318 (HArko 318) and deployed on the Western Front until the end of the war. He was captured by the Western Allied occupation forces and released in the spring of 1947.

literature

Dermot Bradley , Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Rövekamp: The generals of the army . Volume 2: v. Blanckensee - v. Czettritz and Neuhauß . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2424-7 , pp. 227-228.

personal data
SURNAME	Braun, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lieutenant General of the German Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	gain
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1962
Place of death	Ellinghoven