Otto Tiemann

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Otto Tiemann (born February 12, 1890 in Vilsen , † April 20, 1952 in Bruchhausen-Vilsen ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Pioneers in World War II .

Life

Otto Tiemann was in the rank of lieutenant in the Pioneer Battalion 24 in 1909 and served as an officer in the First World War . He was involved in the siege of Antwerp in 1914 . After the war he switched to the Reichswehr . There he was in the 2nd (Prussian) Pioneer Battalion in Stettin and around 1930 in the staff of the 1st Division .

In the Wehrmacht he was senior engineer officer 3 in Dresden in 1936 , was promoted to major general in 1937 and, as a lieutenant general, was in command of the 93rd infantry division from the establishment of the division in September 1939, with interruptions until September 1943 . His successor was Colonel Gottfried Weber . At the beginning of February 1944, Tiemann became the commanding general of the XXIII. Army Corps appointed. He fought with the corps in Operation Bagration and was released from his command in October 1944. In May 1944 he had been promoted to General of the Pioneers. From the end of December 1944 he headed the XVII as commanding general until the end of the war . Army Corps . With this he was involved in the Vistula-Oder Operation and the West Carpathian Operation at the beginning of 1945 . Then in February 1945 the corps took part in the Lower Silesian Operation .

From 1951 he campaigned for the re-establishment of the Waffenring Deutscher Pioniere and on August 15, 1951 wrote the first circular calling for a re-establishment.

Awards

Works

  • Pioneers in combat: tasks for squads, groups and platoons . Mittler , Berlin , 1935, 2nd edition 1938.
  • Pioneers in combat: the combat service . Mittler, Berlin, 1938.
  • Operation in the East: Division history of the 93rd Infantry Division . 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Damerau: German Soldier Yearbook . Schild Verlag, 1977, p. 14 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  2. ^ A b c Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb: Field Marshal General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb: Diary entries and assessments of the situation from two world wars . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1976, ISBN 978-3-421-01740-6 , p. 197 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1927, p. 140 ( google.de [accessed on March 7, 2020]).
  4. ^ A b c Germany Reichswehr Ministry: Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1930, p. 123 ( google.de [accessed on March 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Historie a vojenství . Magnet, 2008, p. 63 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  6. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 154 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Tiemann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General of the Pioneers in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilsen
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1952
Place of death Bruchhausen-Vilsen