Karl-Hermann Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein

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Karl-Hermann Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein (born July 16, 1915 in Altona , † September 18, 1984 in Holzkirchen ) was a German officer and military writer. From 1963 to 1974 he was director of what is now the Defense History Museum (WGM) in Rastatt.

Life

Baron von Brand zu Neidstein's family came from the Upper Palatinate . He was born during the First World War in 1915 as the son of a Württemberg officer in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . He grew up mostly in Württemberg , from 1922 to 1929 he lived in Chile . In 1934 he passed his Abitur in Schwäbisch Gmünd .

He then joined the 13th (Württ.) Infantry Regiment in Ludwigsburg as a flag junior . He attended the war school in Dresden. Taken into the Wehrmacht , he served from 1936 as a lieutenant in the 35th Infantry Regiment in Tübingen. In 1939 he was promoted to first lieutenant . In the Second World War he was initially used as a company commander; he was involved in France and the Russian campaign . In 1942 he was taken to a hospital because of kidney disease. From 1944 the captain was used in the staff of Army Group Kesselring in Italy. As a staff officer , he became a prisoner of war in the United States .

After his dismissal he became managing director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kameradenwerke and Traditionsverbände eV in Stuttgart and in 1953 co-founder of the monthly magazine Alte Kameraden , which he helped to build up.

In 1956 he joined the army of the German Armed Forces as a major , where he was initially employed in the staff of Defense Division V in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and Böblingen. For five years he was a teacher for military and war history at the Army Officer School II in Husum and the Army Officer School III in Munich. In 1963, the lieutenant colonel succeeded Colonel a. D. Erich Blankenhorn (acting) head of the "Historisches Museum Schloss Rastatt". In 1969 the museum was taken over by the German Armed Forces and renamed the "Military History Museum Rastatt". When he reached retirement age in 1974, he retired.

Publications

  • 2000 years of Swabian-Alemannic soldiers. A foray through the military history of southwest Germany from the beginning to the beginning of the 2nd World War . 6 Illustrated sketches by Otto Roth, G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1956.
  • with Walter Transfeldt : Word and Custom in the German Army. Historical and linguistic considerations about customs, terms and designations of the German army in the past and present . With pictures by Richard Knötel , Herbert Knötel a . a., 6th edition edited and expanded by Otto Quenstedt, HG Schulz, Hamburg 1967.
  • with Helmut Eckert: Cadets . Volume 1, Schild-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88014-072-3 .

Awards

literature

  • Ernst-Heinrich Schmidt : In memory of Lieutenant Colonel Karl-Hermann Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein. Museum director from 1963–1974 . In: The messenger from the Wehrgeschichtliches Museum 9 (1985) 17, p. 23 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Brand zu Neidstein, Karl-Hermann Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, military writer and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1984
Place of death Wooden churches