Max Sachsenheimer

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Max Sachsenheimer (born December 5, 1909 in Mühlbach , Baden , † June 2, 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German major general in World War II .

Life

After completing school, Max Sachsenheimer began his military service in the Reichswehr in 1928 and only served in the 14th (Baden) Infantry Regiment . With the recommendation as an officer candidate, he went through the officer training courses and in 1934 achieved the rank of lieutenant . He worked in various positions until World War II. By conquering various bridges over the Seine , he received both classes of the Iron Cross as a company commander in the 75th Infantry Regiment. It was followed by his use in the French campaign . In 1941 he lost as a battalion commander in Infantry Regiment 75 on the eastern front by a shrapnel two fingers of his left hand and was flown out of the war zone. He returned to the front at the end of 1941. He took part in the conquest of Demyansk and received the Knight's Cross as the battalion commander in charge. A hospital stay in Freiburg followed from October 1942 to February 1943 . During this time he was promoted to major and received the German Cross. Sachsenheimer was in command of the 17th Infantry Division from the end of September 1944 until the end of the war . In early December 1944 he was promoted to major general. At the beginning of January 1945 he stopped a Soviet advance in Dyhernfurth as part of the Vistula-Oder operation and in the process recaptured the chemical plants that were important for the production of nerve gas. After Hitler's suicide, he withdrew his division from the Red Army area to allied areas. In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States, from which he was released in 1947.

After his release he moved to Freiburg and worked as a building materials merchant. At the end of 1952 / beginning of 1953 he took a stand against the critical statements in the DSZ party for Hermann Ramcke's Verden speech . In a speech to former SS soldiers a. a. said that they could be proud to have been blacklisted. Sachsenheimer criticized the fact that the DSZ had not illuminated all arguments sufficiently and that Ramcke's statements actually corresponded to the truth. He also got in contact with former Nazis , such as Ernst Bolbrinker , Josef Harpe and especially Werner Naumann , and became chairman of the VdS in southern Baden.

At the end of March 1967 he was elected first chairman of the Aid Community Freedom for Rudolf Hess .

In 1955 he turned down an offer to switch to the Bundeswehr , as did recruitment attempts from the Soviet zone. He died of a heart attack in Freiburg in 1973.

Awards

plant

  • Battle of Maltsch a. O. in February 1945 , in: Maltscher Heimatbrief, No. 11, Mellendorf, February 1, 1955.

literature

  • Karl Kollatz: Major General Max Sachsenheimer . The Landser , 1971.
  • Peter Stockert: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945 , 9 volumes, Bad Friedrichshall, 2010/2011.
  • Gordan Williamson: Knight's Cross, Oak-Leaves and Swords Recipients 1941-45 . P. 47 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Samuel W. Mitcham Jr: Panzer Commanders of the Western Front: German Tank Generals in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8117-4922-0 , pp. 99 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  2. ^ A b Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 61 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  3. ^ Franz Kurowski: Unconditional surrender: Inferno in Germany 1945 . Druffel-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 978-3-8061-1027-2 , pp. 168 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann affair. In: Dissertation. Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, accessed November 2012 .
  5. ↑ Wolf Rüdiger Hess: Rudolf Hess: "I have no regrets" . Stocker Leopold Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7020-0682-2 , p. 42 ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b German Annals . Druffel-Verlag., 1974, p. 242 ff . ( google.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 648.
personal data
SURNAME Sachsenheimer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlbach , Baden
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1973
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau