Otto von der Linde

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Lieutenant Otto von der Linde

Otto von der Linde (born January 13, 1892 in Regenwalde , Western Pomerania, † May 23, 1984 in Wienhausen near Celle ) was a German officer and Pour le Mérite carrier.

Life

Linde was the son of the judge Rudolf von der Linde (1853–1930). During the First World War he served in the 5th Guards Regiment on foot with the rank of lieutenant . He was awarded the highest Prussian order, the Pour le Mérite, on September 18, 1914. He received this for taking the Belgian fort de Malonne near Namur on August 24, 1914. The garrison of the heavily armed fort surrendered to Linde and four other soldiers without a fight. As the war continued, he was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front .

After the war, Linde first learned agriculture and, after his marriage to Gisela von Oertzen (* 1898, † 1960), from 1922 farmed the Dorow estate in the Regenwalde district in Western Pomerania, that of his mother-in-law, the writer Elisabeth von Oertzen , née von Thadden (* 1860 ; † 1944) belonged. In the 1930s he was a first lieutenant reserve officer in the 5th Infantry Regiment. In World War II he was last colonel and regimental commander.

Expelled from his Pomeranian homeland in 1945, he initially lived with his family in Alt-Wallmoden near Goslar and had to make a living doing odd jobs. After the death of his wife he moved to Wienhausen near Celle. During this time he also became known as a hunting writer and author of two books in which he reported on his own hunting experiences in Pomerania and Canada.

Fonts

  • Otto von der Linde: On the move back: 40 years of Waidwerk . Parey, 1958
  • Otto von der Linde: deer, sows, black bears . BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1970

literature

  • Ernst Jünger : Complete Works , Volume 20. Klett-Cotta, 1978, p. 361
  • The Great War in Individual Representations, Issue 1: Lüttich-Namur - edited by Rolf von Bieberstein, published on behalf of the General Staff of the Field Army. Oldenburg i. Size 1918, pp. 87-88
  • Belgian fort taken in surprise Cellische Zeitung of January 13, 1982, p. 6
  • Jost von der Linde: The Uprooted Linden Tree . Vancouver 1995, 263 pages, Chapter 1 (Memoirs of a Son (* 1928) by Otto von der Linde).
  • Otto von der Linde on Gut Falkenberg's website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died - Otto von der Linde . Der Spiegel , June 4, 1984.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Lubs: IR5, from the story of a Pomeranian Regiment 1920-1945 . Berg Publishing House, 1965
  3. ↑ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 76 , CA Starke, 1981, p. 380.
  4. ↑ Kosmos, Volume 56, Issues 1-6. Cosmos, society d. Friends of Nature, 1960, p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Linde, Otto von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer in the First and Second World Wars
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rainforest , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1984
Place of death Wienhausen near Celle