Maximilian von Zottmann
Maximilian Zottmann , Knight of Zottmann since 1917 , (born September 27, 1882 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † January 17, 1966 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German officer , most recently Major General of the Police in World War II .
Life
origin
He was the eldest child of the lieutenant general of the same name a. D. Maximilian Zottmann and his wife Agathe, née Fleischhauer. One of his nieces was Traudl Junge , who later became Hitler's secretary .
Zottmann married Christine, née Honold (1892–1968) in Munich on October 18, 1911. The marriage produced a son.
Kingdom of Bavaria
After attending the cadet school on Munich's Marsplatz , Zottmann joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" of the Bavarian Army in Munich on July 14, 1902 as an ensign . After successfully attending the war school , he was promoted to lieutenant on March 12, 1904 and then transferred to the 4th Infantry Regiment "King Wilhelm of Württemberg" in Metz . On October 1, 1910, he returned to Munich for the 1st Infantry Regiment "König" . On March 7, 1913, he was promoted to first lieutenant and on October 1, 1913, he was appointed adjutant of District Command II in Munich.
Zottmann and his regiment were deployed at the beginning of the First World War during the border fighting and the Battle of Lorraine and remained on the western front throughout the war . There he was promoted to captain on August 9, 1915 , and was appointed battalion commander in Reserve Infantry Regiment 1 . For his extraordinary military achievements he received on 9 April 1917, the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph Order, and was allowed into the account of the associated collecting personal nobility from that date Knights of Zottmann call. He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Armentières in 1918 and retired from the army as a major at the end of the war .
Weimar Republic
After the First World War , Zottmann studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich .
From February 1, 1919 to October 8, 1922 he was a military officer in the government of the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg and then moved as a captain to the staff of the regional police in Regensburg. There he was transferred to the Nuremberg-Fürth state police on June 1, 1923, and to the Nuremberg-Fürth state police on April 1, 1927, where he was leader of the Fürth training section until September 30, 1930 . He was born on December 1, 1931 Head of Section II in Nuremberg , on February 1, 1932 Lieutenant Colonel and on May 1, 1933 Colonel and simultaneously commander of the state police Nuremberg-Fuerth and Location elder and commander of the Training Division II.
Third Reich
On November 1, 1934, Zottmann retired from active service when he reached the age limit and was reactivated in the Wehrmacht as major and commander of the 212th Infantry Replacement Regiment on August 26, 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War . He then worked as a clerk at the Wehrmacht Replacement Inspection VII Munich and then switched back to the police service. From January 1941 to March 1943 he was in command of the Ordnungspolizei (BdO) of Westmark and Lorraine with the rank of major general.
As a knight of the Military Max Joseph Order, he was in contact with the heads of the House of Wittelsbach , Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and Duke Albrecht of Bavaria, and advocated the re-establishment of the monarchy in Bavaria until the end of his life .
literature
- Rudolf von Kramer, Otto von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor 1914–1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966. pp. 438-439.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personalities: Zottmann, Maximilian ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ G. Voigt, Dermot Bradley , Hans Bleckwenn , G. Wegner: Germany's armies to 1918. Origin and development of the individual formations. Biblio publishing house. Osnabrück 1987. ISBN 3-7648-1241-9 .
- ↑ Commandements régionaux de la Police ( Regional Police Commanders )
- ^ Antonio J. Muñoz, Darko Pavlović: Hitler's Green Army: Western Europe and Scandinavia. , Europa Books, Bayside, NY, 2005, p. 329 OCLC 180889941
- ^ List of monarchical organizations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zottmann, Maximilian von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zottmann, Maximilian Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general of the police in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau in the Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1966 |
| Place of death | Herrsching am Ammersee |