Kurt Pickart

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Kurt Pickart (born November 7, 1910 in Slawentzitz ; † September 23, 1988 in Karlsruhe ) was a German officer , most recently Major i. G. in World War II . Afterwards he was a lawyer and notary as well as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr . He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class.

Career

The son of the princely Hohenlohe chamber director Alfred Pickart put 1929 on humanist Martin Luther High School Eisenach a high school and studied in Tübingen and Wroclaw Law , where in 1933 he passed the first state examination and became a Doctor of rights. Since 1929 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

However, he then chose the soldier's profession and joined the Reichswehr in 1934 with Artillery Regiment 18 in Liegnitz in Upper Silesia . He experienced the beginning of the Second World War as a regimental adjutant and battery chief in Poland, France and Russia as a front officer in various positions, and attended the first general staff course at the War Academy in Berlin in the spring of 1943 . He was then appointed Second General Staff Officer (1b) of the 79th Infantry Division on the Kuban bridgehead , where he was involved in organizing the retreat of German troops from the peninsula.

After evacuation of the bridgehead he was in early June 1944 as First General Staff Officer of the at (1a) Biscay lying 159th (Reserve) Infantry Division transferred to France. The division was deployed on a front of over 200 km in southwest France, where the Allied forces were expected to invade. After the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Hitler ordered that the port facilities and the Pont de pierre bridge in Bordeaux, built under Napoleon Bonaparte , should be destroyed when the German troops withdrew from Bordeaux . The division commander, Lieutenant General Albin Nake, concluded after negotiations in which his First General Staff Officer, Major i. G. Kurt Pickart was involved in a secret agreement with the representatives of the local Resistance that the city of Bordeaux would not be destroyed if the German troops withdrawing without a fight were not attacked by the groups of the resistance, but were given safe conduct. Both sides adhered to this agreement, so that the destruction of Bordeaux did not take place, combat measures were avoided and the German troops and civil forces could withdraw in three marching groups.

He was released from American captivity to the home of his wife Alfonse Brackmann, whom he married during the war, in southern Oldenburg . After the Grand State Examination in Law ( Assessorexamen ), he first settled in Delmenhorst and from 1954 in Wildeshausen as a lawyer. In 1959 he was appointed a notary.

As early as 1955, the city of Wildeshausen applied to become a garrison town . Kurt Pickart conducted successful negotiations in the federal capital Bonn on behalf of the city of Wildeshausen. In February 1962 the first German soldiers moved into the “Wittekind barracks”. The barracks were closed in 2007.

In 1959 Pickart completed his first military exercise in the Bundeswehr , which promoted him to lieutenant colonel in the reserve in 1961 . His efforts to get the West German reserve officers accepted into the international community of reserve officers Confédération Interalliée des Officiers de Réserve (CIOR) were successful in 1961. Pickart represented German affairs as Vice President in the Executive Committee. He took part in the annual congresses in Antwerp, Paris, Copenhagen and Munich as German Vice-President and then as a member of the Executive Committee at the congresses in Trieste, Breda, Brussels, Hanover, Athens and 1972 in Washington.

At the general assembly of the Wildeshausen Transport and Home Association on May 12, 1959, Kurt Pickart, the chairman of this association, presented his idea of ​​founding a "secondary school" in Wildeshausen. On October 15, 1964, the citizens' assembly of the "Bürger und Heimatverein eV" voted unanimously for the establishment of a high school. On March 30, 1965, the "sponsorship group for high school" met. In 1966 the city of Wildeshausen applied for the establishment of a grammar school. In 1968 the district of Oldenburg agreed to take over the sponsorship, and in 1969 the Ministry of Education gave its approval. In the 1971/72 school year, school operations began with two 5th and 7th grades each in the rooms of the secondary school and vocational school.

In the summer of 1971, Pickart was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class by the President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Oldenburg for his services and his efforts to reach an understanding with his western European neighbors. The city of Wildeshausen named the driveway to the Wittekind barracks (now Gut Spascher Sand Resort) in memory of his services to the city's interests. Pickart Street ”.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e "Soldiers for Europe", Old Comrades, organ of the traditional associations and comrades' organizations, Karlsruhe / Stuttgart 1971, issue 7/8 p. 22
  2. ↑ Kurt Pickart, The Compensation in Case of Police Emergency. Wroclaw, 1933.
  3. ↑ Peter Lieb , Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg ?, 2007, p. 482 online [1]
  4. ↑ Francis Cordet , Carnets de guerre en Charente, 1939–1944, p. 307 ff, online [2] with footnotes p. 345 and 348 online [3]
  5. ↑ Pierre Miquel , Bordeaux 29 août 1944, Une reddition négociée, publié le 24/05/2004, in L'EXPRESS online [4]
  6. ↑ a b c Kurt Weyher , Wehrkunde, Zeitschrift für Wehrfragen, Munich 1971, p. 389
  7. ↑ Report in the Wildeshauser Zeitung from January 14, 2011 online [5]
  8. ↑ Loyal, Reservistenreport, 6/86 p. 21 ff
  9. ↑ Homepage of the Gymnasium Wildeshausen online [6]
  10. ↑ Road map online [7]
personal data
SURNAME Pickart, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Major i. G. in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Slaventzitz
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1988
Place of death Karlsruhe