Otto Wilhelm von Renz

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Otto Wilhelm von Renz (born November 3, 1891 in Stettin ; † January 16, 1968 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the Luftwaffe's flak cartillery in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Renz joined the field artillery regiment "Grand Duke" (1st Badisches) No. 14 on July 8, 1911 as a flag junior , where he was later deployed as a battery officer . After the outbreak of the First World War , Renz worked there as a department adjutant until the beginning of February 1916. He was then from February 7 to August 26, 1916 leader of the anti-balloon cannon train 104 in the 56th Infantry Division . On August 27, 1916, Renz was withdrawn from the front and was after the end of the war, until the end of September 1919, assistant to the artillery inspection commission and ballistic consultant for the inspection of weapons and equipment.

On October 1, 1919, Renz was transferred to the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 13, but remained posted to the Reichswehr Ministry. From October 1, 1920 to September 30, 1921, he was employed in the staff of the 5th Division . Here he was transferred to the 1st (Prussian) driving department, leaving his command in the staff of the 5th Division . Following this activity, Renz was again a consultant at the inspection for weapons and equipment in the Reichswehr Ministry until mid-November 1924.

On November 16, 1924, Renz was transferred to the staff of the 1st Division of the 5th Artillery Regiment , from where he was appointed battery chief on February 1, 1926 . He filled this position until March 1929. He then returned to the Reichswehr Ministry in April 1929 and was there until June 1934 as a light artillery specialist in the Army Weapons Office . From July 1934 to September 1934 he then served on the staff of the 3rd (Prussian) Driving Department. On October 1, 1934, Renz was appointed commander of the Döberitz driving department , which was placed under the Air Force on April 1, 1935. For this reason, Renz switched to this on the same day and remained at this command post until the end of September 1935.

Subsequently, in October 1935, he became commander of the I. Department of Flak Regiment 22 , where he remained until September 1936. On October 1, 1936, Renz was appointed head of the ballistics and ammunition department at the Army Weapons Office, whose function he held until the end of August 1938. On September 1, 1938 , he was commissioned to lead the Hamburg Air Defense Command , but only a few weeks later, on September 24, 1938, he switched to Flak Regiment 24 , where he was entrusted with its command until mid-November 1938. On November 15, 1938, Renz became the commander of Flak Regiment 33 , which from August 26, 1939 was also referred to as the Halle-Leuna Flak Group . At the end of October 1939 he gave up command of the regiment and became the commander of Air Defense Command 4 in Düsseldorf , whose fortunes he led until March 1, 1941. He then took over command of Air Defense Command 9 in Hamburg until June 24, 1942 .

On June 25, 1942, Renz moved to the area of General Aircraft Master , where he held the position of head of the Flak Development Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) until July 1944. Subsequently, he acted as the commanding general in the deployment department of the IV Flak Corps until mid-August 1944 and then transferred to the OKL's reserve command . On November 15, 1944, he took over the leadership of the V Flak Corps as the commanding general . This fought under his command initially at the Battle of Budapest and then gradually withdrew via Slovakia to the Vienna area. On May 7, 1945, parts of the corps staff, including Renz near Admont, were taken prisoner in the United States , from which he was released on June 16, 1947.

Awards

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 99–100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 136.
  2. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall and Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, History and Proprietor Volume II , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 374.
personal data
SURNAME Renz, Otto Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general of the anti-aircraft artillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1968
Place of death Bad Neuenahr