Otto Grün (General)

Otto Grün (born May 29, 1882 in Deggendorf ; † March 26, 1948 in Tegernsee ) was a German officer , most recently general of the artillery of the Wehrmacht .

Life

origin

Green was the son of a district judge . He married Eleonore Conrad in 1915.

Military career

After visiting a humanistic Gymnasium Green came on 16 July 1900 as a cadet in the 2nd Foot Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian army in Metz one. There he was promoted to lieutenant on March 9, 1902 after attending military school . Grün then graduated from the artillery and engineering school from October 1, 1905 to September 27, 1907 . From April 1, 1909 he was used as a battalion adjutant and promoted to first lieutenant on March 3, 1911 . As such, he was transferred to the 3rd Foot Artillery Regiment in Ingolstadt on October 1, 1912, and a year later he was assigned to the War Academy .

The outbreak of World War I prevented Grün from completing his training there. On August 1, 1914, he was appointed adjutant of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment , which initially formed part of the war occupation of the fortress of Metz . Then the regiment took part in the fighting in Lorraine and France, where Grün was promoted to captain on December 16, 1914 and a few days later transferred to the 1st foot artillery regiment "vacant Bothmer" as leader of the 6th battery . From July 1916 he was made available to the staff of General of the Foot Artillery 5. From there, on February 22, 1917, he was transferred and employed as an artillery officer in the General Command of the Prussian IV Reserve Corps on the Eastern Front . However, Green only stayed in this position for four weeks. He was first assigned to Army High Command 6 , on July 7th he was transferred to the General Staff officers in a special position and assigned to Army High Command 6 on the Western Front .

After the war ended, Grün was transferred to the Ministry of Military Affairs on December 19, 1918 . From January to the beginning of April 1919 he was employed as leader of the 1st battery of the 3rd foot artillery regiment and his subsequent transfer to the general command of the III. Army Corps . On October 1, Grün was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr and transferred to the General Staff of Reichswehr Group Command 4. With the further reduction of the army, his office in military district command VII was opened and Grün was a member of the staff until February 28, 1922. Then he was to inspect the artillery (in 4) in the Ministry of Defense of Berlin added, and here on March 5, 1923. Patent from 1 July 1921 Major transported. After four years in Berlin, Grün commanded III from March 1, 1926 to October 18, 1927. Department of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg , was in the meantime promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 1, 1927 with RDA from February 1, 1927 and as such was then course director at the artillery school Jüterbog . He returned to the Reichswehr Ministry on February 1, 1929, became a colonel on February 1, 1930 , and was Chief of the Artillery Inspection Staff until January 31, 1933. Subsequently, Green was promoted to major general at the same time as he was appointed commander of the artillery school. After only a year he was promoted to lieutenant general and on October 1, 1934, he was appointed inspector of the artillery. In this position, Grün was retired from general of the artillery on August 1, 1936 and retired from active military service on September 30, 1937.

On November 1, 1938, green was made available to the army of the Wehrmacht , but was not used. It was only shortly before the start of the Second World War that he was appointed inspector of the artillery to the chief of armaments and commander of the reserve army on August 26, 1939 . Grün remained in this position until May 30, 1944, when he was transferred to the Führerreserve and his mobilization provision was revoked three months later.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with swords and crown
• Hanseatic Cross Bremen
• Hanseatic Cross Lübeck
• German cross in silver on May 29, 1944

literature

• Dermot Bradley (Ed.): Die Generale der Heeres 1921–1945 The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials in the general rank. Volume 4: Fleck-Gyldenfeldt. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1996. ISBN 3-7648-2488-3 . Pp. 460-461.
• Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . Pp. 454-455.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 131.
2. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 542.