Karl Freiherr von Thüngen

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Karl Freiherr von Thüngen

Karl Freiherr von Thüngen (born June 26, 1893 in Mainz ; † October 24, 1944 in Brandenburg prison ) was a German officer (most recently lieutenant general ) and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .

biography

Charles XI. Baron von Thüngen came from the Thüngen family . He was the son of Karl Ernst Freiherr von Thüngen (1839–1927) and Eva Elisabeth (* 1874), born. Maier.

Von Thüngen took part in the First World War and was first lieutenant at the end of the war . He was then accepted into the Reichswehr , where he was promoted to captain on February 1, 1925 .

Among other things, he was a member of the 17th Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg and commanded the 18th Panzer Division on the Eastern Front during World War II in the first half of 1942 and in the first quarter of 1943 . On April 6, 1943, the then lieutenant general and commander of the 18th Panzer Division was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

In 1944 von Thüngen was inspector of the military substitute system in Berlin. On July 20, 1944 , the conspirators appointed him commander of military district III (Berlin) and successor to the arrested General Joachim von Kortzfleisch . He took over the command of the general command.

After the failure of the coup became apparent, von Thüngen took back the "Valkyrie" orders of the conspirators and was involved in the interrogation of Major i. G. Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen was involved, but this did not save him from later arrest by the Gestapo .

On August 14, he was released from the Wehrmacht by the court of honor formed on August 2, 1944 , so that the Reich Court Martial was no longer responsible for the sentencing. On September 28 and 29, 1944, the hearing took place in front of the People's Court under its President Roland Freisler . He was sentenced to death on October 5 and shot on October 24, 1944 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison .

Bamberg Cathedral : Memorial plaque to Karl Freiherr von Thüngen and his fellow officers from Bamberg's 17th Cavalry Regiment who were part of the resistance on July 20th

A memorial plaque in Bamberg Cathedral commemorates the five former officers of the 17th Cavalry Regiment who lost their lives in the fight against the Nazi regime: next to Baron Karl von Thüngen, Colonel i. G. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , Major Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod , Colonel Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz and Major Roland von Hößlin .

Karl Freiherr von Thüngen was married twice. On February 11, 1919, he married Margit Edle von Schultes († 1932). On April 5, 1934, he married Marie Freiin von Michel-Raulino (1893–1978), his second wife. The SS officer Karl Michel von Tüßling was her cousin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the 17th Cavalry Regiment ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.12er-aufklaerer.de
  2. ↑ Veit Scherzer (Ed.): German troops in World War II , Volume 5, Scherzers Militaer-Verl., Ranis / Jena 2009, ISBN 978-3-938845-22-6 ; P. 331
  3. ^ The events on July 20, 1944 ( Memento from April 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ A b c Ranking list of the German Imperial Army , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 140.
  5. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer: Knight's Cross bearer 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. 179.
personal data
SURNAME Thüngen, Karl Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1944
Place of death Brandenburg prison , Brandenburg an der Havel