Kurt Brennecke

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Kurt Brennecke (born December 16, 1891 in Ringelheim , † December 30, 1982 in Bonn ) was a German infantry general in World War II .

Life

Brennecke joined the Infantry Regiment "Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands" (2nd Westphalian) No. 15 of the Prussian Army on February 18, 1910 as a flag junior . There he was promoted to lieutenant on August 18, 1910 and as such was appointed adjutant of the 2nd Battalion on April 1, 1914 . In this position, Brennecke came into the field after the outbreak of World War I and was wounded in the fighting on the Western Front in France on October 18, 1914. After hospital stay and recovery, he returned to his regiment at the front and was employed there as a regimental adjutant from June 2, 1915 to October 3, 1916. Then Brennecke became adjutant of the 26th Infantry Brigade. Shortly before the end of the war, he received a field command from the 353 Infantry Regiment deployed on Lake Drisvisty in Lithuania and was promoted to captain on August 18, 1918 .

After the war he joined the new Reichswehr and served in the 14th Infantry Regiment in Braunschweig , where he was appointed company commander in October 1923 . After a year-long transfer to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Osterode and Allenstein , he was transferred to the General Staff of the 2nd Reichswehr Division in Stettin on October 1, 1925 . On the 1 January 1929 Major appointed, followed on October 1, 1930 he was transferred to the Defense Ministry to Berlin . In the local training department IV he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1933 . On January 1, 1934, he was appointed commander of the 2nd motor vehicle department in the new Wehrmacht and promoted to colonel on April 1, 1935 . On June 1, 1935, he was appointed Chief of Staff in Military District VII ( Munich ), took over the same position at Army Troop Command 6 in Hanover in autumn 1938 and was promoted to Major General on August 1, 1939 .

At the beginning of the Second World War, with the mobilization on August 26, 1939, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 4th Army , which took part in the attack on Poland . On August 1, 1940, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and on October 25, 1940, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of Army Group C deployed in the west . On June 22, 1941, at the beginning of the German-Soviet War , Major General Brennecke was Chief of Staff of Army Group North . From January 18, 1942, Brennecke was in the Fuehrer's reserve for a month, in the meantime was promoted to General of the Infantry on February 1, 1942 and then to Commanding General of the XXXXIII. Army Corps of the 9th Army appointed. On January 26, 1943, Brennecke was relieved of his post and transferred once more to the Führerreserve. From June 15, 1943, until the end of the war, he worked as the commander of the courses for division commanders and commanding generals in Berlin, Döberitz , Hirschberg, Neustadt and Bad Wiessee .

From May 8, 1945 he was in US prisoner -of- war custody, from which he was released in March 1948.

From July 1955 to 1956 Brennecke was a member of the personnel appraisal committee for the new Bundeswehr .

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: v. Blanckensee-v. Czettritz and Neuhauß. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2424-7 , pp. 259-261.
  • Samuel W. Mitcham : Men of Barbarossa Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia 2009, p. 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Percy E. Schramm : War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht 1940-1941. Part 1, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, ISBN 3-7637-5933-6 , p. 118.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 155.
  3. ↑ 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 , p. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Brennecke, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ringelheim
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1982
Place of death Bonn