Karl von Lersner

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Karl Freiherr von Lersner (born July 1, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 25, 1943 at Orjol ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

Lersner came from an old Hessian family whose earliest members of the City Council since 1486 Marburg sat, several law professors of the local university presented and dressed in Hesse high administrative posts. Since 1566 they were members of the Frankfurt patrician society Alten Limpurg . He was the second son of the architect Alexander Freiherr von Lersner and his wife Bertha, born Freiin von Woellrath-Lauterburg (1865–1925). He had been married to Ilse Köstlin since 1926, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Military career

During the First World War , Lersner joined the Leibgarde Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 in Darmstadt as a volunteer in May 1916 . As a lieutenant (since June 1, 1917) he took part in the fighting on the Western Front and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Wound Badge in Black and the Hessian Medal of Bravery .

After the end of the war, Lersner returned home with his regiment and after the demobilization and dissolution of the unit on October 1, 1919, he was taken over into the Provisional Reichswehr . Here he was with the 21st Infantry Regiment for a year and was then transferred to the 15th Infantry Regiment . There Lersner was in the 13th (MG) company until 1928, was promoted to first lieutenant on April 1, 1925 and then deployed in the 12th (MG) company. Lersner, promoted to captain on April 1, 1933, studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1930 to 1935 and acquired the academic degree of Dipl.-Ing.

During the armament of the Wehrmacht , Lersner was promoted to company commander in the 57th Infantry Regiment and promoted to major on August 1, 1936 . On April 1, 1937, he was transferred to the Army Weapons Office of the Army High Command , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on August 1, 1939 and worked until February 1940 from the beginning of the Second World War. As commander of the 1st Battalion of the 73rd Infantry Regiment, he then took part in the campaign in the west and was wounded in May 1940. In August Lersner was ready for use again, was deployed to the OKH and promoted to colonel on November 1, 1941 . On April 1, 1942 he was appointed commander of the 537 Grenadier Regiment, with which he fought on the Eastern Front . There he fell in the fighting for Oryol and was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 12, 1943 and promoted to major general on April 20, 1943 .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley: Die Generale des Heeres 1921–1945 , Volume 7: Knabe-Luz, Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2004, ISBN 3-7648-2902-8 , p. 481

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier, Ernst Vogel, Munich, 1971, p. 169.
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1924, p. 190
  3. ↑ Veit Scherzer : 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 , p. 502.
personal data
SURNAME Lersner, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lersner, Karl Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1943
Place of death at Orol