Oskar Bertram

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Oskar Bertram (born November 4, 1890 in Gera ; † August 12, 1965 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II .

Military career

Bertram came on March 8, 1911 as a cadet in the Bergische Field Artillery Regiment. 59 in Cologne , where he on 18 November 1911. Ensign and on August 18, 1912 Lieutenant was promoted. After the outbreak of the First World War he served in this regiment until January 1918 as platoon leader , battery officer , battalion adjutant and regimental adjutant. In January 1918, Bertram, who had been promoted to first lieutenant on January 27, 1916 , was sent to the German military mission in the Ottoman Empire , where he was a training officer at the Ottoman field artillery school in Meteio Truizlib near Constantinople until 1919 .

In October 1919, Bertram was taken over by the Provisional Reichswehr as a battery officer in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 10. In October 1920 he was transferred to the 6th (Prussian) Artillery Regiment of the Reichswehr . There he was initially a battery officer, was promoted to captain on July 1, 1922 and served as chief of the 9th battery in Wolfenbüttel from January 1923 . In April 1928 he was transferred to the headquarters in Wilhelmshaven , in October 1930 to the headquarters in Münster and in October 1932 to the headquarters of the 4th Artillery Regiment in Dresden . On October 1, 1933, while being promoted to major at the same time , he became commander of the 4th Driving Department , which was also stationed in Dresden .

On April 1, 1935, Bertram switched to the Luftwaffe and became commander of the 1st Division of Flak Regiment 10, where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 1, 1936 . On October 1, 1936, he became the commander of Flak Regiment 4. He was promoted to colonel on October 1, 1937.

On June 1, 1939, while at the same time being promoted to major general , Bertram was appointed higher commander of Fortress Flak III; he held this position until April 1, 1940. From April 10, 1940 to December 3, 1940 and again from September 1, 1941, he was commander of the 2nd Flak Division as a substitute for Walter Feyerabend . He commanded this division until January 11, 1942. From December 12, 1941, Bertram , who was promoted to Lieutenant General on June 1, 1941 , also acted as commander of the previous Luftgau staff z. b. V. 10, which in November 1941 was first renamed Luftgaukommando Ostland and then Luftgaukommando Petersburg and was stationed in Riga . On January 12, 1942, Bertram was transferred to the Reich Court Martial as an officer judge, where he remained until June 1943. After that he was temporarily officer zbV , was appointed to it at an unknown time in the second half of 1943 as commander of the Air Force transport and cars associations.

Bertram resigned from military service on December 31, 1944. On May 8, 1945, Bertram was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was only released on October 7, 1955.

Awards

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945, Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty - v. Gyldenfeldt , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 75-76

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 325 ( google.de [accessed on July 6, 2019]).
  2. ↑ The Luftgaustab z. b. V. 10 was formed in Königsberg in June 1941 while preparing for the German attack on the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ) and assigned to Luftflotte 1 . In November 1941, now stationed in Riga, it was renamed the Ostland Air District Command and then the Petersburg Air District Command. On April 1, 1943 it was renamed Feldluftgau Command XXVI and dissolved on August 31, 1944.
  3. ↑ Günter Gribbohm: Das Reichskriegsgericht , Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3830505853 , p. 72 view available at google.books
  4. ↑ a b c d Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 159
personal data
SURNAME Bertram, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in the air force
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1965
Place of death Wiesbaden