Military Commander in France

Command flag for a military commander in the German Reich 1940–1945

Former Hotel Majestic in Paris, now Hotel The Peninsula Paris (photo from 2014)

The Military Commander in France (MBF) was the head of the military administration in the German-occupied zone after the armistice agreement between the German Reich and France of June 22, 1940.

The headquarters of the military commander in France was in the Hotel Majestic on avenue Kléber in Paris .

The military commander was subordinate to five military administrative districts with headquarters in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Angers , Dijon , Bordeaux and Paris.

Military commander

• October 1940 to February 1942: Otto von Stülpnagel
• February 1942 to July 1944: Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
• From July 1944 to October 4, 1944 Karl Kitzinger

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  Walther von Brauchitsch and Otto von Stülpnagel (right) in Paris

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  Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

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  Karl Kitzinger at the awarding of Iron Crosses to paratroopers in Norway (1940)

See also

• German occupation of France in World War II

literature

• Gaël Eismann: Hôtel Majestic: Ordre et sécurité en France occupée (1940–1944). Tallandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2847346602 .
• Walter Bargatzky: Hotel Majestic: A German in occupied France. Foreword by Peter Scholl-Latour , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-451-08388-4 (autobiography).

Web links

• Gaël Eismann: Le military commanders in France: les transformations de la mémoire savante. In: Histoire @ Politique. Politique, culture, société, N ° 9, septembre-décembre 2009.