Otto Uechtritz

Otto Uechtritz (born September 9, 1910 in Insterburg , East Prussia , † July 25, 1994 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general of the Bundeswehr , and manager of the Oldenburg landscape .

Life

Uechtritz attended the Mariengymnasium Jever from 1922 until his Abitur in 1930 , where he was noticed as an aggressive anti-Semite who tormented his Jewish classmates. In the same year he became a flag junior in the 2nd (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Allenstein . He was later deployed in Rastenburg and Breslau , in the Second World War in 1939 during the attack on Poland , in 1940 in the western campaign and from 1941 on the eastern front . In 1939/40 he was trained as a general staff officer at the War Academy . Last chief of staff of the XIII. Army corps he was captured by the Americans. After his release he worked for a Mannheim daily newspaper from 1948 to 1956.

Uechtritz joined the Bundeswehr as a lieutenant colonel on February 1, 1956 . Until 1960 he worked in the command staff of the army . From October 1, 1960 to February 1, 1964, he commanded the 31st Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Oldenburg and then the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division there. His last position was from January 15, 1968 to September 30, 1970, commanding general of the Bundeswehr's 1st Corps . He was then retired.

From 1970 to 1975 he was a managing board member of the Oldenburg Foundation and from 1975 to 1981 managing director of its successor, the Oldenburg landscape . In 1981 he received their landscape medal and became their honorary member. As early as July 1969 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit with a Star .

On February 2, 1948, he married Ursula Boßelmann (born January 11, 1918 in Berlin) in Heidelberg , with whom he had a daughter and a son.

Promotions

• 1st February 1956 Lieutenant Colonel
• September 19, 1957 Colonel
• October 24, 1959 Brigadier General
• August 18, 1964 Major General
• February 12, 1968 Lieutenant General

literature

• Otto Uechtritz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1971 of September 20, 1971, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Karl Veit Riedel: Otto Uechtritz 70 years. In: Bulletin of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 28, 1980, p. 10
• From the farewell address of the previous managing director Otto Uechtritz at the landscape assembly. In: Bulletin of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 30, 1981
• Otto Uechtritz 75 years. In: Bulletin of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 48, 1985, pp. 6-7
• Rolf-Dieter Mentz: Otto Uechtritz 80 years. In: Bulletin of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 68, 1990, p. 13
• Heinrich Bergmann: Otto Uechtritz in memory. In: Bulletin of the Oldenburg landscape. No. 84, 1994, p. 21
• Otto Uechtritz. In: The Oldenburg House Calendar. Volume 160, 1996, p. 39 (with picture)
• "Guarantee for the historical and cultural substance of the homeland". Documentation: Address by Landscape President Dr. Heinrich Bergmann. In: Kulturland Oldenburg. Journal of the Oldenburg landscape. Issue 1/2010, No. 143, pp. 12-14 (with picture, digital copy ; PDF; 2.1 MB)

Web links

• Otto Uechtritz in the Lower Saxony Bibliography
• General Uechtritz said goodbye. Delmenhorster Kreisblatt , January 31, 1964, accessed November 10, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmut Peters: The expulsion of the Jews from Jever in the Nazi era: Representation based on new file finds. GröschlerHaus , January 30, 2015, accessed November 10, 2018 . 
2. ^ Landscape Medal of the Oldenburg Landscape. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Honorary members of the Oldenburg landscape. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Heydemann. In: Pomeranian gender book. Volume 8 (= German Gender Book , Volume 155). Published by CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, p. 221.