Oskar Vogl

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Oskar Theodor Emil Vogl (born April 29, 1881 in Munich ; † February 4, 1954 in Irschenhausen ) was a German artillery general in World War II .

Life

family

Vogl was the son of a Bavarian colonel and later a member of the board of directors of the stock building company in Nuremberg. He had married Emma Merck in 1906. The marriage had two children.

Military career

After graduating from the Cadet Corps in 1899, Vogl joined the 2nd field artillery regiment "Horn" of the Bavarian Army in Würzburg as an ensign . He attended the Munich War School and was then transferred to the 8th Field Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg in 1901 as a lieutenant . In 1906 he was promoted to department adjutant and was promoted to first lieutenant . From 1911 to 1914 Vogl graduated from the War Academy , which gave him the qualification primarily for the subject (fortress warfare, weapons theory, war history) and secondarily for the general staff. After attending the academy, he returned to the 2nd field artillery regiment "Horn", was promoted to captain and used as a staff officer.

When the First World War broke out , Vogl was used in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine and was involved in trench warfare in France. Here Vogl was used as leader of the 2nd battery of the 1st replacement division of the 8th field artillery regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia". In 1915/16 he worked as an orderly officer in the 5th Reserve Division and the Replacement Division . In 1917 Vogl was promoted to General Staff Officer, was transferred to the 6th Infantry Division as the first General Staff Officer and returned to the replacement division in this function in the course of the year. In 1918 he was transferred to the 6th Field Artillery Brigade as an adjutant . For his achievements during the war, Vogl was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords, the Military Merit Order IV. Class with swords and crown and the Knight's Cross First Class of the Frederick Order .

After the armistice in Compiègne , his return home and the demobilization of his brigade, Vogl was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr in 1919 . Here he first worked as a general staff officer in the Reichswehr-Schützen-Brigade 21 and was promoted to major from May 18, 1918 with seniority . With the formation of the Reichswehr Vogl came to the staff of Artillery Leader VII and in 1923 to the General Staff of the 7th (Bavarian) Division . Here he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on February 15, 1923 , and as such was transferred to the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in 1925 , where Vogl was given command of the I. Department in Würzburg . During a brief assignment as a general staff officer at Group Command 2 in Kassel, he was promoted to colonel on February 1, 1928, and Vogl was appointed commander of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg a year later. On December 1, 1930, Vogl handed over the regiment to his successor Friedrich Wilhelm Brandt . He was appointed Artillery Leader VII and promoted to Major General on April 1, 1931 . To 30 November 1931 Vogl was awarded the character as a lieutenant general retired from active military service.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Vogl was reactivated to the army of the Wehrmacht and used as artillery commander 7. On January 10, 1940, he was appointed commander of the 167th Infantry Division , which he led until May 1, 1940. Vogl worked in 1941 as chairman of the Franco-German Armistice Commission (DWStK) and was promoted to general of the artillery in the same year. In 1942, when his mobilization provision was lifted, he was adopted into retirement.

literature

  • Joseph Karl Brennfleck: The Royal Bavarian 2nd Field Artillery Regiment Horn. Verlag Max Schick, Munich 1939, pp. 565-566.
  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 594.

Individual evidence

  1. Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 , p. 594.
  2. Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1924, p. 124.
  3. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939. Volume 3: The occupation of active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or formation until August 26, 1939. Cavalry, artillery, pioneers, motor and driving departments, armored forces, traffic forces and intelligence departments. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 488.
  4. ^ Academy of Sciences of the GDR: Germany in the Second World War. Volume 1, p. 490. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).