Kurt Lange (General)

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Kurt Lange (born July 10, 1923 in Gablenz , Lower Silesia , † October 28, 1989 in Berlin ) was a lieutenant general of the NVA of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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After attending an eight-year school, he learned his father's trade from 1937 to 1940 and became a miner.

Recruited into the Wehrmacht in 1940 , he did his military service with the armored forces and was a sergeant at the time of his Soviet capture in 1945 . Captivity in the Soviet Union lasted four years.

After returning to Germany, he joined the German People's Police in the newly formed GDR on November 1, 1949 . He was trained as an officer at the Zittau Police School. Due to his military experience, he was initially employed there as a platoon leader, but very soon as a company commander. From 1950 to 1951 he was then employed as head of the tanks department in what is now the CIP unit. In 1951 he was selected to attend a special course in the USSR. This course took place in Wolsk near Saratov on the Volga. The participants in these courses were intended for high and highest positions in the armed organs of the GDR. After his return from this course, Lange worked in the administration training of the staff of the Barracked People's Police (KVP), the immediate predecessor of the later National People's Army (NVA).

In 1955 he was employed as a command leader (regiment commander) and, with the establishment of the NVA on March 1, 1956, as a regiment commander of the 6th Panzer Regiment in Drögeheide near Eggesin . The peculiarity of this 6th Mot rifle division was that it only existed from 1956 to 1958. It was then dissolved. Their units went into other units of the NVA.

In 1958 Kurt Lange was deployed as chief tank in the military district V (Neubrandenburg). In the same year he began his studies at the highest military educational institution of the Warsaw Treaty , the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR “Voroshilov” in Moscow. Two years later, in 1960, he successfully completed this course with a diploma as a military scientist.

Following his studies, he was deployed as commander of the 9th Panzer Division (Eggesin) in the northeast of the GDR. In 1964 Kurt Lange became the first deputy to the chief of the military district V (Neubrandenburg). On March 1, 1966, he was appointed major general. From 1967 to 1972 Kurt Lange was chief of the Neubrandenburg military district. On November 2, 1970, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

From 1972 to 1974, Lange was then a representative of the NVA at the High Command of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty (OK of the VSK) in Moscow, one of the deputies of the Chief of Staff of the VSK of the Warsaw Treaty.

From 1974 to 1983 Kurt Lange then worked as head of the main military department in the GDR Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools. There he was responsible for training the civilian students of the NVA. (There were training profiles that were trained at civil universities and only then became officers of the NVA. Examples: Sports officers were trained at the German University of Physical Culture (DHFK) in Leipzig or finance officers in the "military finances" section of the economics section of the Humboldt University in Berlin ). On April 30, 1983, he was released from the NVA and retired.

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SURNAME Long, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, lieutenant general of the East German NVA
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Gablenz
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1989
Place of death Berlin