Combat commander
The highest ranking military commander within a contested area or a contested city is referred to as a combat commander . The term was used particularly during World War II . The positions of combat commanders were created on the instructions of Hitler on March 8, 1944 and were intended to improve the interaction of all military forces in the areas under their control by bundling the authority; However, due to the advanced course of the war, this measure had no military success.
literature
- Martin Moll (Hrsg.): "Führer-Erasse" 1939–1945 : Edition of all the handed-down directives in the areas of state, party, economy, occupation policy and military administration issued by Hitler during the Second World War, not printed in the Reichsgesetzblatt . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-06873-2 .
- Maximilian Fügen: "To the last man"? : the role of the combat commanders in major German cities in 1945 . Baden-Baden: Tectum, 2018 ISBN 978-3-8288-4182-6
selection
- General of the infantry Rudolf von Bünau , last combat commandant of Vienna
- General of the infantry Werner von Gilsa , last combat commandant of Dresden
- General of the artillery Helmuth Weidling , last combat commandant of Berlin
- SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch , last combat commandant of Budapest
- Lieutenant General Ernst-Günther Baade , last combat commandant of Cologne
- Lieutenant General Fritz Becker , last combat commandant of Bremen
- Lieutenant General Bruno von Hauenschild , combat commandant of Berlin
- Lieutenant General Rudolf Huebner , last combat commandant of Munich
- Lieutenant General Hellmuth Reymann , combat commander of Berlin
- Lieutenant General Ludwig Merker , combat commander of Vienna
- Lieutenant General Hermann Meyer-Rabingen , combat commander of Frankfurt on the Oder
- Lieutenant General Karl Veith , last combat commandant of Braunschweig
- Lieutenant General Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff , combat commander of Munich
- SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Hanke , last combat commandant of Breslau
- Major General Richard von Bothmer , last combat commandant of Bonn
- Major General Joachim Degener , last combat commandant of Győr
- Major General Friedrich-Wilhelm Deutsch , battle commander of Wesel
- Major General Johannes Erxleben , last combat commandant of Kassel
- Major General Paul Wilhelm Loehning , last combat commandant of Hanover
- Major General Kurt Lottner , last combat commandant of Lübeck
- Major General Friedrich Stemmermann , first combat commandant of Frankfurt am Main
- Major General Friedrich von Unger , combat commander of Neuruppin and Ludwigslust
- Major General Alwin Wolz , last combat commandant of Hamburg
- Colonel Hans Lepperdinger , last combat commandant of Salzburg
- Colonel Gerhard Wilck , last combat commandant of Aachen
- Colonel Richard Wolf , combat commandant of Würzburg and last combat commandant of Nuremberg
- Sea captain Wolfgang Lüth , last combat commander of Flensburg
- Lieutenant Colonel Josef Ritter von Gadolla , last combat commandant of Gotha
- Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Hofmann , Combat Commander of Munich
- Lieutenant Colonel Erich Löffler , combat commandant of Koblenz and last combat commandant of Frankfurt am Main
- Lieutenant Colonel Werner Lorleberg , last combat commandant of Erlangen
- Major Paul Weinzierl , combat commander of Ingolstadt
- District Administrator and Major of the Reserve Werner Laskowski , last combat commandant of Heidenheim an der Brenz
- Lieutenant Ludwig Edinger , combat commandant of Apolda
Individual evidence
- ↑ Führer Order No. 11 (Commanders of Fixed Places and Combat Commanders) of March 8, 1944; Quoted in: Walter Hubatsch (ed.): Hitler's instructions for warfare 1939–1945, Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwissen, Frankfurt / Main 1962, Doc. 53, pp. 243–250