Kurt Anger

Kurt Anger (born December 13, 1888 in Oliva , Danziger Höhe district , † March 24, 1961 in Oberstaufen , Sonthofen district ) was a major general in the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Life

Anger trained as an officer and in 1907 to lieutenant in 1914 to lieutenant and in 1916 for Captain transported. After the end of the First World War , he retired from military service. After he worked for the Berlin Security Police from 1919 to 1920, he was taken over as a police captain in the police service in 1920 and belonged to the Weimar Republic's police force . Between 1920 and 1922 he worked for the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and during this time he was promoted to police major in 1921. In 1922 he became head of department at the Berlin Security Police.

As a lieutenant colonel in the police force, he was posted to the Opole training command from January 1 to February 1, 1934 , and was acting commander of the Halle (Saale) training command between February 1, 1934 and July 1, 1935 . He was then transferred from July 1 to September 2, 1935 to the 2nd battalion of the Naumburg (Saale) artillery regiment and then completed the Jüterbog artillery school between September 2 and 28, 1935 .

After he had been promoted to colonel in the protection police on October 1, 1935, he was accepted as a colonel in the Wehrmacht on October 15, 1935 . As such, he was initially used in the 60th Artillery Regiment until October 6, 1936 and at the same time completed the staff officer course in Chemnitz between November 25, 1935 and October 5, 1936 . After that he was first from October 6, 1936 to October 12, 1937 commander of the 2nd battalion of the 31st artillery regiment and then between October 12, 1937 and September 30, 1939 commander of the 18th artillery regiment.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Anger was Artillery Commander 110 from September 30, 1939 to April 1, 1942 and as such was promoted to major general on October 1, 1939 . During a temporary reserve position between April 1 and August 1, 1942, he attended a course for prisoner-of-war affairs in Vienna from July 6 to 15, 1942 . He was then transferred from July 22 to August 1, 1942 to the commander for prisoners of war in the military district XIII in Nuremberg , responsible for northern Bavaria and the north-western Sudetenland , and was then himself commander for prisoners of war in the military district between August 1, 1942 and May 1, 1945 XIII. One week before the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner of war on May 1, 1945 , from which he was released on June 14, 1947.

Web links

• Entry in general.dk
• Entry in "Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic "online ( Federal Archives )