Klaus von Heimendahl (Colonel)

Klaus Erich Friedrich von Heimendahl (born January 14, 1898 in Merseburg ; † after 1970) was the longstanding federal manager of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe and previously a general staff officer of the Wehrmacht , most recently in the rank of colonel .

Life

Klaus was a member of the von Heimendahl family, a family who probably came to the Rhineland from Sweden at the beginning of the 17th century ; The progenitor was the silk manufacturer Friedrich Wilhelm Heimendahl (1796–1850). His parents were the Prussian Rittmeister Ernst Walter von Heimendahl (1865–1955) and Klara Katharina Elisabeth von Heimendahl, née Kumbruch (1876–1961).

Klaus von Heimendahl married on June 21, 1932 in Berlin-Lichterfelde Elisabeth Klara Hedwig Eleonore von Hagen (1909-2000). The later Brigadier General Klaus (Paul Adolf) von Heimendahl emerged from the marriage, whose son Klaus (Georg Walther) von Heimendahl is Lieutenant General in the Bundeswehr.

Military background

His military career began during the World War when he joined the cuirassier regiment "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia" (Brandenburgisches) No. 6 in early December 1916 as a flag junior . In August of the following year he was promoted to ensign and in July of the last year of the war, 1918, to lieutenant . After the war he was transferred to the regiment's reserve at the end of March 1919 and released from the army in January 1920.

In August 1924 he rejoined the Reichswehr with the 3rd (Prussian) cavalry regiment as a lieutenant and in August 1926 became first lieutenant . In the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler , he was transferred in October 1933 the first squadron of the 4th (Prussian) Reiter Regiment in Potsdam and three months later, on January 1, 1934 Captain transported. In mid-October 1935 he became a captain and company commander in the newly established 6th Panzer Regiment of the 3rd Panzer Division . In October 1937, according to the staffing , he was transferred to the staff of the General Command, was divisional adjutant of the IV Army Corps and was promoted to major a year later in October . In November 1938 he was transferred to the staff of the 3rd Light Division , where he was Division Adjutant IIa of the 8th Panzer Division . At the beginning of January 1939 he was entered in the official seniority list with the seniority of January 1, 1938.

In the Second World War he followed Ernst Volckheim in September 1940 as commander of the tank division z. b. V. 40, which was used in Norway . In this position he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in March 1941 and to colonel on August 1, 1942. In September 1942 he was given command of the 29th Panzer Regiment of the 12th Panzer Division deployed on the Leningrad blockade . He commanded the 29th Panzer Regiment until the beginning of April 1943. He was then Army Adjutant (IIa) in the Army High Command of the 1st Panzer Army until the end of November 1943 and then in the same position until mid-April 1945 in the Army High Command of the 14th Army . Most recently, he sat on a Führerreserve -Dienstposten the Army High Command and was to incorporate as a division commander in the Army Group C reassigned.

Activity for the Order of St. John

After the war , he lived with his wife in the Rhineland, where the couple found a home in Königswinter , and where his wife was in charge of women's aid in Königswinter-Altstadt of the Evangelical parish of Königswinter for 30 years.

Klaus von Heimendahl was active in the Order of St. John . In 1956 he replaced Smilo von Lüttwitz , who joined the newly founded Bundeswehr , in the role of managing director of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, which at that time was still based in Rolandseck and later moved the headquarters to Bonn .

He remained in this office until January 1, 1966 and was replaced by Wolf von Zawadedzky (1907-2000).

Fonts

• The Johanniter Accident Aid. In: The Order of St. John. The Order of Malta. Wienand-Verlag, 1970, pp. 570-578.

Honors

On November 28, 1966, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Web links

• The German 3rd Panzer Division in World War II, Volume 1
• Fight under the Northern Lights: German-Finnish Brotherhood of Arms at the Arctic Circle. The history of the 6th SS Mountain Division North, 1969
• Klaus von Heimendahl Entry in: State Handbook The Federal Republic of Germany: Part of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Heimendahl. In: Genealogical manual of the nobility . CA Starke Verlag , p. 1974, p. 140.
2. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , second year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1908, p. 443.
3. ↑ Daughter: Elisabeth Klara Hedwig Eleonore. In: Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volumes 92–111, CA Starke, p. 1989, p. 377. ISBN 978-3-7980-0700-0 ( limited preview on Google Books)
4. ^ Elisabeth von Heimendahl, nee von Hagen , brigittegastelancestry.com.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig : Ranking list of the German army 1944/1945. Podzun-Pallas, Friedberg 1979, ISBN 3-7909-0113-X , p. 64.
6. ^ AOK 14. In: Kurt Mehner: The Secret Daily Reports of the German Wehrmacht Leadership in the Second World War, 1939–1945. December 1, 1943 - February 29, 1944. Biblio Verlag, 1987, p. 387. ( limited preview on Google Books)
7. ↑ Dorothee Demond: Congratulations on your 70th birthday! In: Congregational Letter. No. 3/38. Vintage, evang. Parish of Königswinter, September – November 2014, p. 6. ( online )
8. ^ ZS-Magazin - magazine for civil protection, disaster control and self-protection. (PDF; 23.3 MB) Federal Association for Self-Protection, April 1977, p. 15 (Changing of the Guard, p. 14 of the PDF) , accessed on September 14, 2017 . 
9. ^ ZS-Magazin - magazine for civil protection, disaster control and self-protection. (PDF; 23.3 MB) Federal Association for Self-Protection, April 1977, p. 15 (Changing of the Guard, p. 15 of the PDF) , accessed on September 14, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Ministerialblatt des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen N. 42. , Düsseldorf, April 3, 1967, p. 441.

predecessor	Office	successor
Smilo von Lüttwitz	Federal Managing Director of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe 1956–1966	Wolf von Zawadzky