Oskar Schwartz

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Oskar Schwartz (born August 7, 1886 in Hannoversch Münden , † December 25, 1943 in Rädel ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

Oskar Schwartz, son of the businessman Robert Schwartz, first studied engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . Here he became a member of the Corps Slesvico-Holsatia in 1907 . On October 1, 1909, he joined the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer . After nine months, he decided to drop out and start a career as an officer. In July 1910 he was promoted to flag junior and in August 1911 to lieutenant . Until the outbreak of World War I , he served in the Alsatian Train Battalion No. 15 in Strasbourg .

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War, Schwartz was platoon leader of the medical company of the XV. Army Corps . In August 1915 he was promoted to first lieutenant . Later, from April 1916, he served as an orderly officer of the commander of the ammunition column and trains, in fleet column 3 and as an adjutant to the commander of the ammunition column and trains 19 in the same army corps. On September 20, 1918, he was promoted to captain . For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Friedrich-August-Kreuz I. Class during the war .

Reichswehr

In June 1919 Schwartz was taken over as Rittmeister in the provisional Reichswehr . In the following years he served as company and squadron chief in various driving departments and cavalry regiments. In February 1928 he was transferred to inspect the traffic troops (In 6) in the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin and in April 1931 to the artillery department in the Heereswaffenamt . It was here that he was promoted to major in February 1932 . After his transfer to the cavalry department at the General Army Office, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in October 1934 .

Wehrmacht

With the transfer of the Reichswehr to the Army of the Wehrmacht in March 1935, the cavalry department, and with it Oskar Schwartz, was transferred to the Reich Ministry of War. In this department, which was now again called the Inspection of the Cavalry and was later renamed the Inspection for Riding and Driving, he was promoted to colonel in August 1937 . From August 1940 to January 1941 he was in command of field command 520 in Hasselt and from April 1941 to December 1941 commander of the same field command, now in Antwerp . Here he was promoted to major general on August 1, 1941. From February 1942 to November 1942 he was in command of Hagenau. From March 1943 until his death he was assigned to various military staff in Cologne, Kassel, Wiesbaden and Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Corps Slesvico-Holsatia, Corpsliste , winter semester 1981/82, p. 40, no.240.
2. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 133.