Mark Heinrich of Nathusius

Mark Heinrich von Nathusius (born August 2, 1932 in Kriele / Westhavelland ) is a major general a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . From 1986 to 1990 he was deputy head of office and chief of staff at the Army Office in Cologne.

Mark Heinrich von Nathusius as Deputy Head of Office and Chief of Staff of the Army Office in Cologne, around 1988

Youth and education

Mark Heinrich von Nathusius is the eldest son of Heinrich Adolf von Nathusius (1890-1958), a lieutenant colonel, councilor and pastor. His mother was Ursula von Langen (1904–1938). Nathusius' stepmother was Dorothee von Nathusius. His great-grandfather was Heinrich von Nathusius . From his father's three marriages, Nathusius had two more brothers and three sisters.

He spent his childhood and youth in what is now the federal state of Brandenburg , first in Stechow near Rathenow , later until 1951 in Vietmannsdorf near Templin , where his father had been a preacher and pastor since 1948. Nathusius made his Abitur in 1951 at the humanistic Joachimsthaler Gymnasium Landesschule Templin. After the wish to study veterinary medicine at East Berlin's Humboldt University, such as the one after training at the Neustadt / Dosse stud, was rejected for political reasons, Nathusius moved from the GDR to West Germany in 1951 via the then still green border . After completing an agricultural apprenticeship on the Thieheuer'schen manor in Leeseringen in the Nienburg district , he worked as a volunteer on a property owned by the von Joest family ( Eichholz estate near Wesseling in the Rhineland). From 1954 to 1956 he was the administrator of the von Borries family estate in Steinlacke near Herford .

Military career

On May 2, 1956, Nathusius joined the tank reconnaissance training battalion in Bremen-Grohn as an officer candidate . 1958 came the first transfer as S1 (staff) to the Panzergrenadierbataillon 43 in Göttingen , where he was promoted to first lieutenant.

In 1960 Nathusius was transferred as platoon leader to Panzer Reconnaissance Company 20 of the then Panzer Grenadier Brigade 2 in Braunschweig . From 1961 to 1964 he was company commander of the 5th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion established in 1956, initially in Fritzlar and from December 14, 1962 in Sontra on the inner-German border , where the whole battalion had been transferred. The battalion belonged to the 5th Panzer Division .

General Staff Officer

From his assignment as company commander, Nathusius completed the general staff training; In 1964 he was transferred to general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. From 1966 onwards there were general staff assignments as G2 (enemy intelligence and reconnaissance) and G4 (logistics) in the staff of the 1st Panzer Grenadier Division in Hanover and as G3 (organization, deployment, training) in the staff of Panzer Brigade 33 at the Lingen an der Ems site; this army brigade was subordinate to the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division in Oldenburg .

From 1970 to 1972 Nathusius was in Oldenburg commander of the 314 tank battalion of the 31st Panzer Grenadier Brigade . With this use, there was a change of service type for the previous "reconnaissance aircraft" . After a year-long assignment (1973) in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn as an assistant to the command staff of the armed forces (FüS), he became head of division in the command staff of the army (FüH) in 1974 , where the new Army Structure 4 was developed. In 1975 Nathusius was promoted to colonel.

On September 28, 1977 he became the commander of Panzerbrigade 34 in Kassel, which he commanded until March 31, 1981.

Army Office

On April 1, 1981, in addition to being promoted to Brigadier General, he was transferred to the Army Office in Cologne as Department Head I (LtrAbt I) and General for General Army Tasks (GenAllgHAufg). In his role as head of the first department, Nathusius was also chairman of a steering group for the German-American Army General Staff Talks . This activity often took him to the United States over the next five years. In 1986 Nathusius was promoted to major general, and he was now deputy head of office and chief of staff at the Army Office. On September 30, 1990, he was given early retirement.

family

On August 10, 1962, Nathusius married in Wennigsen near Hanover. His wife, Jutta von Nathusius is the daughter of Oberforstmeister Eckard Flechtner (1905–1991), a son of Major General a. D. Arthur Philipp Flechtner and Ingeborg Flechtner, geb. von Thaer (1913–2009), a daughter of the governor of Silesia, Georg von Thaer .

Since October 1990 Nathusius has lived with his wife in Bad Godesberg . The couple has three children. The Polish television actress Suzanna von Nathusius is a granddaughter .

publication

German leadership in the east in 1914 , in: Ten Years of the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy. A memorandum from January 1 , 1967, Bundeswehr, Hamburg 1967

References and comments

1. ↑ according to Info  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Federal Archives in Koblenz  
2. ^ Heinz Wegener, Das Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium - the Landesschule Templin: A Berlin-Brandenburgisches Gymnasium in the maelstrom of German history 1607-2007 , ISBN 978-3-929829-62-4 , Berlin Story, Berlin 2007 p. 265 .
3. ↑ Later renamed Panzerbrigade 2
4. ↑ according to Website for the PzBtl. 314
5. ^ Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine of September 29, 1977, appeal for a change of command. Colonel Mark-Heinrich von Nathusius took over Panzer Brigade 34
6. ↑ Later renamed to Panzerbrigade 6
7. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger from March 26, 1986.
8. ↑ Since 1991 the functions have been divided between two functionaries

literature

• Manfred Sadlowski (Ed.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1985/86 . Bernard and Graefe Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-5285-4