Karl Herzog (Major General)

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Karl Herzog (born July 9, 1906 in Nuremberg , † January 25, 1998 in Munich ) was a German officer , most recently major general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Karl Herzog grew up in St. Leonhard , served as an officer in World War II and was a. a. Company commander of the 3rd company of the Pioneer Battalion 27 of the 27th Infantry Division and later, after the renaming, of the successor unit Panzer Pioneer Battalion 27 of the 17th Panzer Division . In mid-1944 there was also a Herzog Sturm Pioneer Battalion . From the end of 1944 he took over the Army Pioneer Assault Brigade 627 . As a lieutenant colonel, Herzog was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross shortly before the end of the war . This was accompanied by the simultaneous promotion to colonel. He went into Soviet captivity and did not return to Germany until 1955/56.

Thereafter, Herzog joined the Bundeswehr. There he served u. a. as commander of the Pioneer Teaching and Experimental Regiment 87 . From 1961 to 1963 he was stage manager of the pioneers as general of the pioneer troops of the Bundeswehr at the troop office in Cologne and was also a representative of the Bundeswehr on the executive board of the weapon ring , from 1965 as an honorary member, later from 1983 for almost a year acting chairman and from 1983 also honorary chairman . Then - his successor as general of the engineering troops was the Brigadier General Joachim Möller-Döling - he was appointed Deputy Commanding General of II Corps. Of the Army . In 1966 he was retired in this position. He was chairman of the PiKameradschaft former PiBtl 27 / PzPiBtl 27 , organized in the Waffenring from 1976 and from 1976 to 1980 editor of the Waffenring.

He is buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich.

Fonts (selection)

  • South German pioneers in disaster relief in northern Italy / Friuli, May 13 to June 28, 1976 . In: German Soldier Yearbook, 25, 1977, pp. 317–319.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Damerau, Wolfgang Hausen: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild, 1998, p. 458 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Joseph Dinglreiter: The forties: Chronicle of the regiment . Kameradschaft Regiment 40, 1959, p. 16 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  3. ^ Walter Held, Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II: e. Bibliogr. d. German-language post-war literature . Biblio-Verlag, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7648-1106-8 , pp. 364 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  4. ^ Walter Held, Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II: e. Bibliogr. d. German-language post-war literature . Biblio-Verlag, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7648-1106-8 , pp. 368 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Veit Scherzer : The 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 .
  6. Jump up ↑ Gerhard von Seemen: The Knight Cross, 1939-1945: the Knight Cross of all Wehrmacht parts diamond, sword and oak leaves in the order of the award: Appendix with award provisions and further information . Podzun-Verlag, 1976, p. 164 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  7. ^ Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz: My decision: memories from the Second World War and the anti-fascist resistance struggle . German Military Publishing House, 1963, p. 312 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: The Bundeswehr 1955-1995 . Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 50 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
  9. ^ Wehrkunde: Organ of the Society for Wehrkunde . Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1966, p. 542 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1998
Place of death Munich