Kurt Möhring

Kurt Möhring (born January 3, 1900 in Groß Lipschin , Berent district ; † December 18, 1944 , fallen near Beaufort / Luxembourg ) was a German officer , most recently a lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Kurt Möhring's uniform with effects in the Museum of Military History, Diekirch

Mohring was sixteen as a volunteer with the rank of flags Junkers to the army and participated in the First World War in part. After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr . As battalion commander, he was promoted to colonel . In 1942 he took over a regiment of the Greater Germany Division in Russia for one year . On July 18, 1943, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

As a commander , he led the 196th Infantry Division from late December 1943 to February 1944 . From September 1944 to December 1944 he was commander of the newly formed 276th Volksgrenadier Division . When he had to surrender his command during the Ardennes offensive in December 1944, which was costly for the division , he was killed by machine gun fire in a VW 82 on the way to the headquarters of the 7th Army together with three of his former staff officers . Who can be held responsible for death could not be conclusively determined. He was promoted posthumously to lieutenant general.

He is buried in the Holsthum military cemetery.

His uniform jacket, peaked cap, ear protection, map pocket and officer's belt are exhibited in the National Museum of Military History in Diekirch .

Awards (selection)

Iron Cross , 1st Class (1914)
Repeat clasp for the Iron Cross 1st class
German cross in gold
Wound badge in gold

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Patrick Delaforce : The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble . Pearson Education, 2004, ISBN 978-0-582-78493-2 , pp. 117 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Peter Caddick-Adams: Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 . Random House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4090-5227-2 ( google.de [accessed March 21, 2020]).
↑ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of the Bulge . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4617-5144-1 , pp. 190 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
↑ 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. 256 .
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 245 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 327 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Möhring, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Groß Lipschin , Berent district
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1944
Place of death	Beaufort

[:1-1] Patrick Delaforce : The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble . Pearson Education, 2004, ISBN 978-0-582-78493-2 , pp. 117 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).

[:0-2] A ^b ^c ^d Peter Caddick-Adams: Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 . Random House, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4090-5227-2 ( google.de [accessed March 21, 2020]).

[3] Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of the Bulge . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4617-5144-1 , pp. 190 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).

[4] 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. 256 .

[5] Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 245 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).

[6] Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in WWII . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-4654-0 , pp. 327 ( google.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).