Otto Dziobek (officer)

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Captain Otto Dziobek
RIR 76 001 - Otto Dziobek.jpg
Barracks of the Imperial 1st Sea Battalion
The officers of IR 162 in February 1917
Former barracks of I./162
Former Dziobek's house in Lübeck
Monument to the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 in Hamburg

Otto Gustav Eduard Dziobek (born April 9, 1875 in Saarlouis , † November 26, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German officer , most recently a colonel in World War II .

Life

Dziobek had six brothers and lived in Metz until 1879 . From there the family moved to Charlottenburg , where he attended the Kaiserin Augusta School until 1883. When the namesake Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach attended school on March 9, 1882, he received - as he later gladly reported - from her a kiss. In the following two years he first attended the preparatory school and then the cathedral high school in Magdeburg . From 1885 he was a student at the Stephaneum in Aschersleben , where the family lived.

In May 1887 he came to the Potsdam Cadet Institute and in 1891 to the Prussian Principal Cadet Institute . As a secondary lieutenant he joined the infantry regiment "Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau" (1st Magdeburgisches) No. 26 in Magdeburg . Four years later (1898) he was transferred to the marine infantry , the 1st Sea Battalion , in Kiel . On the Dresden in 1900 he emigrated to Tsingtao in the Kiautschou area, where he became III. Lake Battalion took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion . He was wounded eight times in the fighting in the hinterland . From October 1900 he was in Japan , where he was commanded to the 1st Replacement Sea Battalion. In April 1901 he left Asia with Andalusia . Back in Kiel, he was an inspection officer and teacher at the Naval Academy and School (Kiel) . He then returned from the 1st Replacement Battalion to the 1st Sea Battalion.

After he was transferred to the military gymnasium in Berlin in 1902 and promoted to first lieutenant in 1903 , he resigned from the marine infantry in 1904 and returned to the Prussian army with the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 in Göttingen .

From October 1904 to October 1906 he was adjutant of the 1st Battalion and then for three years of the 2nd District Command in Kassel . After being promoted to the superfluous captain in January 1911, he was transferred to the "Lübeck" infantry regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 in Lübeck , where he served as chief of the 8th company .

After the outbreak of the First World War , Dziobek was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 90 in October 1914, but returned to “his” 162 in December. Until Christmas 1914 he was entrusted with the leadership of the 1st Battalion and was then appointed its commander. In the end , Hans took the place of the chief of his company . In October, during the regiment's second deployment at the Battle of the Somme , the battalion "Dziobek" was assigned to the leader of the III. Battalion, Holger Ritter , as well as the II. Battalion of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163 and a foreign battalion emerging new regiment "Knights". However, this was just as temporary, here for the summer battle, as the "Sick" regiment was once for Thélus.

After the AKO of November 25, 1916, his promotion to major , he was assigned to three one-week courses in the twelve months after February 1917. He was posted to the Asch mine throwing school near Genk , the Heeresgasschule in Berlin and the training division in Valenciennes .

Since he had already been entrusted with the leadership of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 for a week in 1917 , it was transferred to him in mid-October 1918.

After the First World War, he held the position of commander of the volunteer battalion (I./162) in Eutin from March 1919 , from May that of the head of the advertising center in Lübeck, before he was assigned to the general command in Schwerin in September . From October 1919 to October 1920 he was in command of the clearing house of Infantry Regiment No. 162. During that year, in November 1919, he was the last to hold the post of commandant of Sylt , the island that was the regiment's first place of action during the war . Subsequently, he became the settlement office of the XI. Army Corps commanded to Altona , where he retired from army service at the end of December 31, 1920. In April 1920 he was adopted with the character of a lieutenant colonel à la suite of the infantry regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic table) No. 162 put up for disposal .

As a civilian , he worked at the savings and loan fund in Lübeck. Since he was one of the few who belonged to the Lübeck regiment almost continuously during the war, the former head of the regiment , Colonel von Rettberg , approached him at that time with the request to write down its history on the 25th anniversary of the regiment's foundation day . During his visit to Hanover on June 15, 1922, he presented a copy to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg .

In January 1921, he moved to Commerz- und Privatbank in Hamburg and moved there in May.

In 1940 he was appointed lieutenant colonel z. V. and commander of the local commandant's office I / 697 (field post 38112) reactivated. About Konigsberg he arrived in mid-April to Oslo , where he became commander of the Fortress Akershus and shortly afterwards the town commander was appointed by Oslo. In September 1940 he received his officer license as lieutenant colonel.

In May 1943 his mobilization provision was lifted and he returned to Hamburg, where he became a colonel on June 1, 1943 . In Operation Gomorrah he lost a daughter who practiced as a doctor in the Eppendorf hospital . At the end of November 1943, he finally resigned from military service .

On his 70th birthday, the Comradeship Association of Former Members of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 made him an honorary member .

After the war he took over the management of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge again on January 1, 1946 . At the age of 74 he resigned on October 1, 1949.

In his last years he became a wanderer along the Hamburg floodplains on the Alster . A group of government councilors , lawyers , doctors and shipowners of the elderly formed around him . The so-called "Wednesday hikers" called him "Commodore".

Awards

Works

  • Otto Dziobek: History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1922 Oldenburg i. D.
  • Lübeckische Blätter 1937, No. 18: Address by Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Dziobek at the commemoration ceremony for the establishment of the "Lübeck" infantry regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 40 years ago. Held in the building of the non-profit society in Lübeck on April 17, 1937.

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  • M. Bunge: In times of war and peace with the III. Sea battalion 1898/1901. Tsingtau 1914, Druck- und Kommissionsverlag Adolf Haupt.
  • Magdeburg newspaper . 7 September 1900 to 7 December 1900.
  • Hugo Gropp: Hanseatic people in battle. 1934.
  • Hamburger Abendblatt . Hamburg
    • July 27, 1960, category: From a human perspective, article: Average age 79.
    • July 12, 1960, article: Hiking keeps you young, say the old men.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt
  2. ^ City archive of Aschersleben
  3. ^ Magdeburgische Zeitung of December 7, 1900
  4. ^ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914 , Ed .: War Ministry , Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 317.
  5. ↑ Knight of the Iron Cross, first class. in: From Lübeck's towers. Lübeck January 9, 1915
  6. ^ At the same time as his regimental commander Major Frhr. von Rettberg ( Lübeck General-Anzeiger from December 27, 1914, category: Local, sub-item: Iron Cross)
personal data
SURNAME Dziobek, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dziobek, Otto Gustav Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently colonel in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1964
Place of death Hamburg