Konrad Barde

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Konrad Barde born Badziura (born November 13, 1897 in Alt-Rosenberg in the Rosenberg OS district ; † May 4, 1945 in Traunstein ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

family

Konrad was the second of the seven children of Jakob Badziura and Agnes Veronika Widera. The family name at his birth was Badziura, at the urging of the National Socialists he had to change it.

Military career First World War

As a war volunteer , Badziura joined the Imperial Army on November 15, 1916 . He fought in the First World War in the battles of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun . Until March 2, 1917, he was initially part of a field artillery regiment and then moved to the 602 field artillery regiment. On May 13, 1917, he was promoted to private . A year later, on May 14, 1918, he was promoted to lieutenant in the Landwehr and on September 9, 1918, he changed to the staff of the 2nd division of his regiment as an intelligence officer. Adopted on January 7, 1919, he was reactivated a week later on January 15, 1919 and deployed as a battery officer in the 6th Field Artillery Regiment, where he assumed the post of deputy adjutant on March 9, 1919 . On April 13, 1919, he was a battery officer in the fourth battery, and on July 12, 1919, he was again appointed deputy adjutant of the second division. On May 15, 1920, he was appointed Battery Officer of the 7th Battery.

Police service

On 31 December 1920 adopted Badziura came nine months later on September 2, 1921, the police in. He became a platoon leader with the Fourth Hundred in Kreuzberg and changed on June 25, 1922 as a police lieutenant and platoon leader to the cycling department in Beuthen OS.As such, he was dismissed on August 14, 1922, but reactivated again on October 25, 1922 Platoon leader with the second hundred in Opole . At the same time he visited from 15 January 1924 to 10 April 1924, the Higher Police Academy Potsdam-oak and became the head of the April 23, 1924 police station Mikultschütz appointed. He was promoted to lieutenant police officer on October 1, 1924. On January 7, 1927, Konrad Badziura moved to the criminal police in Hindenburg OS and was appointed head of Police Station 1 on February 15, 1927. From April 11, 1927 to April 20, 1927, he served at the border police station in Hindenburg and then became an Ia clerk in the leadership of the Gleiwitz OS police force. On December 1, 1929, he was appointed leader of the fourth riot police in Hindenburg. four months later, on April 1, 1930, he was promoted to police captain. At the same time as his activity there, Badziura was deployed as a trainer in Berlin , as leader of the fourth riot police in Hagen and attended various courses in Frankenstein OS , Eiche and Jüterbog . He also performed his service at the Neuhammer and Döberitz military training areas .

Military career Second World War

As the leader of the second reinforcement hundred in Hindenburg, Konrad Badziura came to the Breslau Infantry Regiment and joined the army on October 15, 1935 as a captain . There he initially served in the staff of the 1st Battalion of Artillery Regiment 64 and on October 6, 1936 he became battery chief in Artillery Regiment 44 '. Here he was promoted to major on January 1, 1937 . On March 1, 1938, Barde took command of the 1st Division of the regiment, which was subordinate to the 8th Infantry Division. With this he took part in the campaign in southern Poland and in the western campaign until the department gave up the staff for building up the 104 artillery regiment, whereby Barde took over command of the fourth division of the 104 artillery regiment on November 23, 1940. With his regiment Barde (promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on July 1, 1940 ) took part in the campaign against Russia , the regiment was used in the 102nd Infantry Division in the central section and was involved in heavy fighting in the Battle of Rzhev . On March 26, 1942, now as Konrad Barde , he was entrusted with the command of the 104th Artillery Regiment, whose command he took over on July 20, 1942 (after being promoted to colonel on April 1, 1942). As a colonel and commander of the regiment, he was awarded the Knight's Cross on January 5, 1943 for the fighting in the Rzhev front arc .

On February 1, 1944, Barde was transferred to the Führer Reserve, but was given the post of ArKo 186 on June 7, 1944 and was returned to the reserve on September 19, 1944. From October 19, 1944 to November 15, 1944, he attended a division leader course and from December 1 to 29, 1944, he was employed for special tasks with the Reichsführer SS . The following day he was given command of the 338th Infantry Division, and on January 18, 1945, of the 198th Infantry Division . With simultaneous promotion to major general , Barde took over command of the 198th Infantry Division on March 1, 1945.

On April 20, 1945 Konrad Barde signed an order to shoot Lieutenant Alfred Scheffler for cowardice in front of the enemy . At dawn on April 21, 1945, Scheffler was shot in Hohenberg. On May 4, 1945 Konrad committed Bard on the run in Traunstein suicide . A posthumous investigation against him was closed on May 30, 1961.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/TDIRLQ54FLYYC52ESGCGZT7UZWUWYHSJ
  2. ↑ Badziura at Gedbas / Genealogy.net.
  3. ^ Barde, Konrad, Badziura, earlier name Badziura , born 13-11-1897 in Alt-Rosenberg, in 1916 entered the Army as a war volunteer in the Artillery Regiment 6, in Breslau. After his education, he was set in on the Western Front on the Somme and Verdun. Awarded with the German Cross I and II, he was promoted to officer. With the armistice he in 1918, Barde transferred his battery to Königsberg for demobilization.
  4. ↑ The name research (onomastics) says that Badziura emerged from the name Badura in the 18th century . This is derived from badurać (17th century) to bajdurzyć, in German translation a chattering, gossiping or talking stupid. In Polish, a "Bajdura" is a nonsense head, Faselhans. In this respect, changing the name to a family name Germanized as "Bard" (a narrator, poet or singer) was a logical decision.
  5. ↑ Lexicon of the Wehrmacht: ArtReg / AR64-R
  6. ↑ Lexicon of the Wehrmacht: ArtReg / AR44-R
  7. ↑ Lieutenant Colonel Konrad Barde (Badziura) March 1, 1938 - November 23, 1940 (took over IV./AR 104)
  8. ^ Rzhev is about 200 km west of Moscow.
  9. ↑ (Russian page) Bard (until June 5, 1941 - Badziura), Konrad (Конрад Барде (до 5.06.1941 г. - Бадзюра))
  10. ^ Lexicon of the German Generale Barde (until 1941 Badziura), Konrad
  11. ↑ Lexicon of the Wehrmacht: ArtReg / AR104
  12. ↑ Lexicon of the Wehrmacht: ArtReg / AR338
  13. ↑ Lexicon of the Wehrmacht: Infanteriedivisionen / 198ID.
  14. ↑ Steven J. Zaloga: Operation Nordwind 1945: Hitler's last offensive in the West , p. 36 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  15. ↑ Axishistory.com/axis-nations/150-germany-heer/heer-divisionen/3491-338-infanterie-division: Major General Konrad Barde (29 Dec 1944 - 18 Jan 1945)
  16. ↑ Registered letter dated November 4, 1944 to Corporal Alfred Scheffler, with the award for EK II
  17. ↑ Newspaper report (Part I): about a crash of a B-17 / Flying Fortress bomber crew , which was clarified after 70 years (accessed on February 15, 2017)
  18. ↑ Newspaper report (Part II): On April 21, 1945: execution and bomber crash shake Sulzbach (accessed on February 14, 2017)
  19. ↑ http://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.de/2014/12/foto-102-infanterie-division.html; Polish short bio
  20. ↑ 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 .
  21. ↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 104 .
personal data
SURNAME Bard, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Rosenberg , district of Rosenberg OS
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1945
Place of death Traunstein