Otto Barth (officer)

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Otto Barth (born June 18, 1891 in Dresden ; † May 3, 1963 in Erlangen ) was a German major general in World War II .

Life

Barth joined the 5th Royal Saxon Field Artillery Regiment No. 64 in Pirna on March 30, 1911 as a flag junior , where he was promoted to lieutenant on August 9, 1912 .

With the outbreak of World War I , Barth was deployed as a battery officer with his regiment on the Western Front and was wounded there on August 16, 1914. After a stay in the hospital and recovery, he served as an orderly officer with the staff of his regular regiment from June 1, 1915 . From December 1, 1915 to June 13, 1916, he was adjutant of the 2nd division and then regimental adjutant. On May 22, 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant and as such he took over the 8th battery on July 5, 1917, with which he then took part in the battle of Armentières in April 1918. At times he also acted as deputy adjutant to Artillery Commander 32 from June to July and from August to November in the same function in the 32nd Division .

After the end of the war and his return home, his regiment was demobilized in Pirna on December 23, 1918 . Barth himself was adopted on 31 March 1920 and he was shortly afterwards on 20 April 1920, character as Captain awarded.

In civil life he was first a commercial clerk at the Burgau Porcelain Manufactory from April 1, 1920 to September 30, 1922 , then an employee at the Arnhold brothers' banking house . From February 25, 1925, he was briefly employed by Constantin Seidel & Co. in his hometown, but on March 1, 1925, he moved to the Dresden branch of Hermes Kredit-Versicherungs AG as a bank clerk and agency representative . After almost ten years of service, Barth gave up this activity, was called up for trial service as a candidate for a supplementary officer on February 1, 1935, and was finally accepted into the army on May 1, 1935 . On September 1, 1936, he was transferred to active service and employed as a battery chief in Artillery Regiment 4. Barth was promoted to major on March 1, 1937 and appointed commander of the I. Department of Artillery on March 1, 1938. 17th regiment

After the beginning of the Second World War, Barth continued to command the department, became a lieutenant colonel on August 1, 1940 , and took over the 117 artillery regiment on December 11, 1940 . Its first use then took place in the attack on the Soviet Union from June 22, 1941. In the meantime promoted to Colonel on February 1, 1942 , Barth was relieved of his post on May 17, 1943 and transferred to the Führer Reserve . He was then from September 17, 1943 to July 13, 1944 course director at Artillery School I and then completed a division leader course. He was then commanded to Army Group North on July 29, 1944 and commissioned on August 15, 1944 to lead the 30th Infantry Division , which he finally took over on November 9, 1944 while being promoted to Major General. Shortly before the war, Barth was still in command of the Field Division 21 (L) , with whom he then in Courland Pocket after the unconditional surrender of the armed forces in Soviet captivity came from which he was released only on 9 October 1955th

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  1. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs-Orden 1736-1918, an honorary sheet of the Saxon Army , Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch-Stiftung, Dresden 1937, p. 137
  2. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 203.
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SURNAME Barth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1963
Place of death gain