Max Schindler

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Max Joseph Schindler (born December 11, 1880 in Munich ; † January 15, 1963 there ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General of the Army in World War II .

Life

family

Schindler was the son of a general practitioner . He married Sophie Haas in 1909.

Military career

After completing a humanistic grammar school , Schindler joined the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" of the Bavarian Army on July 14, 1900 as a flag junior . After successfully attending military school , he was promoted to lieutenant on October 28, 1902 . From 1907/08 Schindler served in the Rosenheim district command and then returned to his regiment. From 1911 to 1914 he graduated from the War Academy , which gave him the qualification for the higher adjutantage, military railroad service and teaching (tactics), as well as conditionally for the general staff.

With the start of World War Schindler came as a boarding officer to the General Command of the First Army Corps , was in this capacity for Captain transported and arrived in Lorraine and France used. In 1915 he was transferred to the 11th Division , where he took part in the fighting in Poland and Serbia as an orderly officer . In 1916 he returned to the General Command of the I. Army Corps on the Western Front and was there as a General Staff officer. In the further course of the war he had other staff assignments, most recently in the general staff of the 36th Reserve Division . For his achievements, Schindler was awarded the Military Merit Order IV. Class with Swords, the Bremen Hanseatic Cross , the Wound Badge in Black and the two classes of the Iron Cross .

After the end of the war, Schindler was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr and assigned to the Reichswehr Rifle Brigade 21 as a general staff officer. In the course of the further reduction in the Reichswehr , he was then transferred to the battalion staff of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment . From there he was transferred to Berlin in the Army Statistics Department (T 3) of the Reichswehr Ministry and his promotion to Major on July 1, 1921. Within the Ministry, he moved to the League of Nations Department (Army Group) (VH) at the end of 1926. As a lieutenant colonel (since February 1, 1927) he was then transferred to Kempten , where Schindler served as III. Battalion of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment took over. With the promotion to colonel on February 1, 1930, Schindler rose to regimental commander. On December 1, 1932, Schindler was promoted to major general.

From April 1933 to September 1935 he served as a military attaché in Warsaw at the German legation in Poland , where he was promoted to lieutenant general on February 1, 1934 ; later he was a military advisor in the Republic of Turkey , which was then ruled and reformed by Ataturk .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was appointed Armaments Inspector Oberost in November 1939; in December 1939 he took over the ammunition factory Państwowa Fabryka Amunicji "MESKO" in Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland). During his service there until 1941, there were mass shootings of Jewish forced laborers . In 1941 Schindler was promoted to armaments inspector in Cracow , whose position Schindler held until the summer of 1944. During this time, the transports to the Belzec , Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps also took place, which had been set up in the course of Aktion Reinhardt , the murder of over two million Jews and around 50,000 Roma from the five districts of the General Government . On June 24, 1944, Schindler was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords in this position . On August 31, 1944, Schindler was assigned to the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production , where he acted as inspector for eviction issues. From September 1, 1944 until the end of the war, he was the 'Armaments Commissioner West' in Bad Ems .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? , 10th edition, Berlin 1935
  2. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 563.
  3. ↑ Keith Neilson, Roy Prete: Coalition Warfare: An Uneasy Accord , Wilfrid Laurier University 1984, ISBN 978-0889201651 , p. 48 Outline available at google.books
  4. ^ Robert Seidel: German occupation policy in Poland: The Radom District 1939–1945 , Schöningh Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3506756282 , p. 97 view available at google.books
  5. ^ Yitzhak Arad: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka - The Operation Reinhard Death Camps , Indiana Univ. Pr. 1999, ISBN 978-0253213051 , p. 46 Outline viewable at google.books
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schindler, Max Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1963
Place of death Munich