Karl von Oven (officer)

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Karl von Oven (born November 29, 1888 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † January 20, 1974 in Siegen ) was a German officer .

Life

After his cadet training, von Oven joined the Royal Prussian Army as an ensign in 1908 . In 1909 he was promoted to lieutenant and took part in the First World War. After being wounded and awarded both Iron Crosses (1914) and promotions, he reached the rank of captain by the end of the war and served on the general staff of the III. Army Corps.

After the end of the war and his discharge from the army, he first went to the border guard in Silesia and from 1921 to the security police in Berlin. In 1923 he was promoted to police major. In the interwar period he was appointed commander of the Bochum police station and shortly after Hitler came to power in March 1933, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In May 1933 he was promoted to chief of staff of the state police in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and in 1935 joined the Reichswehr .

In the Wehrmacht, von Oven was promoted to colonel in 1935 and appointed commander of the 73rd Infantry Regiment in 1937. At the beginning of the Second World War , he took part in the attack on Poland as major general in 1939 , for which he received the 1914 Iron Cross clasp in the same year. From November 15, 1940 to January 28, 1943 he was Lieutenant General in command of the 56th Infantry Division and took part in the Battle of Moscow with this unit in 1941 . In this capacity, von Oven approved the shooting of 128 civilians and 60 children in retaliation in the village of Chozum on November 15, 1941 by the I. Division of the 156th Artillery Regiment under him, which is undoubtedly a war crime. On January 9, 1942, he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . From January 24, 1943 to March 25, 1944, von Oven led the XXXXIII as commanding general with the rank of general of the infantry . Army Corps and then took over from May 1944 to March 1945 as commander of the 2nd Feldjäger Command. Until the end of the war he was still employed in the Führerreserve .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography at geocities
  2. ↑ Horst Boog , Jürgen Förster , Joachim Hoffmann , Ernst Klink , Rolf-Dieter Müller , Gerd R. Ueberschär : The attack on the Soviet Union . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-421-06098-3 , pp. 573 .
  3. ↑ Bundesarchiv Internet - The child murder of Chozum - German soldiers in the abyss. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oven, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, general of the infantry in the army of the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1974
Place of death Wins