Kurt Weckmann

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Kurt Johann Friedrich Ludwig Marius Adolf Eduard Alexander Weckmann (born November 18, 1895 in Schwerin ; † April 14, 1981 in Baden-Baden ) was a German officer (last lieutenant general in World War II ). He was u. a. from March 1942 to May 1944 commander of the general staff training at the War Academy and finally division commander in Norway. After the Second World War he was President of the Clausewitz Society and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Life

Military background

Weckmann was born in 1895 as the son of a chief staff officer and his wife. He attended the Cathedral School Güstrow and resigned after the High School in 1914 as a cadet in the third (Poznan Esche) Infantry Regiment 58 of the German Army one. In the same year he was promoted to lieutenant and used on the Western Front . In June 1918 he was transferred to the 39th Reserve Infantry Regiment. After the First World War , he was initially a member of the volunteer battalion 41, the infantry regiment 2 and the cavalry regiment 2 of the Reichswehr .

In 1926 he completed his assistant leadership training at the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin. This was followed by assignments in the 4th Division in the 13th and 12th Cavalry Regiment and promotion to captain . In 1930 he became company commander (11th Company) in the 9th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment . From 1933 he was active in the following positions in the General Staff (Ia): Artillery Leader II, 2nd Infantry Division of the Reichswehr and Army Service 9 (Cologne). In 1936 he became a lieutenant colonel .

In 1938 he became a tactics teacher at the War Academy until he was appointed to the General Staff (Ia) of the XXX in August 1939. Army Corps of the Wehrmacht was commanded. In October 1939 he became Chief of the General Staff there. A year later he switched to the 9th Army in the same position ; In 1941 he was wounded in the German-Soviet War and was assigned to the Führer Reserve . In February 1942 he became commander of the General Staff courses and in March of the War Academy. His last promotion to lieutenant general followed . In June 1944 he was reassigned to the Führerreserve until he was appointed commander of the 274th Infantry Division in October 1944 . On July 8, 1945, as a leader on site in Norway, he was taken prisoner by the British , where he worked in different camps until 1948. a. stayed at Island Farm .

Club activity and family

From 1952 he worked for the Forces françaises en Allemagne . From 1962 to 1968 he was the first president of the Clausewitz Society , which was formed around former general staff officers from all branches of the army. In 1969 he was elected the company's first honorary president. In 1966 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

He published u. a. in the Wehrwissenschaftlichen Rundschau .

Weckmann was married from 1927 and had a daughter.

War awards (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich , Dieter H. Kollmer , Martin Rink , Rudolf J. Schlaffer : Das Heer 1950 to 1970. Concept, organization, setting up (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57974-1 , p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Weckmann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weckmann, Kurt Johann Friedrich Ludwig Marius Adolf Eduard Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1981
Place of death Baden-Baden