Karl Heinrich Theiss

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Karl Heinrich Theiß (born August 15, 1924 in Lambrecht (Palatinate) , † November 23, 1997 in Würzburg ) was a German officer and student historian.

Life

After the pre-semester exam at the Wirsberg-Gymnasium , Theiss joined the 17th Panzer Hunter Company of the Wehrmacht in 1943 as an officer candidate . After his first deployment to the front, he went to the Fahnenjunker- und Kriegsschule in Prague. As a lieutenant and company commander in Grenadier Regiment 61 of the ( 7th Infantry Division ), he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 . After returning home after four years, he studied German and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg and the Polytechnics School of Modern Language in London . In 1953 he became active in the Corps Transrhenania Munich and the Corps Makaria-Guestphalia Würzburg . In the same year he completed the first part of the philological state examination in Würzburg. The Corps Budissa-Leipzig zu Passau awarded him the ribbon in 1954.

After the philological state examination, he joined the newly established air force of the Bundeswehr as a first lieutenant in 1957 . In 1958 he came to the "S" pilot school in Memmingen. In the same year he was transferred to the Luftwaffe officers' school in Neubiberg as captain and lecture hall director . In 1960 he was sent to the German delegation at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Paris. In 1963 he came to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn as a major . In 1966 he was transferred to the German Embassy in Tokyo as a deputy military attaché . In 1968 he became battalion commander at Air Force Training Battalion III in Germersheim. In 1971 he was transferred as a lieutenant colonel and advisor to the headquarters of the armed forces . In 1974 he came as Colonel i. G. and military attaché again to Tokyo while simultaneously being accredited as military attaché at the German embassy in Manila. From 1978 to 1982 he was deputy head of office and head of the “Training, Information, Specialized Studies” (AIF) department at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg. In 1983 he was appointed Colonel i. G. retired. From 1982 he was head of the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Würzburg and curator of the Kösener archive and the Kösener collections. He was one of the founders of the Bavarian-Japanese Sieboldgesellschaft Würzburg. He went on lovely trips with his corps brothers, including to Tonga . On November 12, 1992, Taufa'ahau Tupou IV granted him an audience. Theiss thanked him with a parade racket from his Wiirzburg corps. He died at the age of 73 and was buried in the forest cemetery (Würzburg) .

Honors

literature

  • Wolf Hepe: Karl Heinrich Theiss . In: Der Corpsstudent 1/1999, p. 24 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal file in the archive of the Corps Transrhenania.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115 , 429; 140 , 614; 88 , 309.
personal data
SURNAME Theiss, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theiss, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Lambrecht (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1997
Place of death Wurzburg