Paul-Friedrich Strauss

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Paul-Friedrich Strauss (born June 16, 1922 in Stendal , Altmark ) is a retired Brigadier General . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr .

Life

Born in Stendal , raised in the Altmark , he joined the Reich Labor Service in East Prussia after graduating from high school in 1940 . His military service began on July 6, 1941. Strauss made it to the rank of lieutenant and company commander and was wounded several times.

After serving in the Wehrmacht and briefly as a prisoner of war, Strauss decided in April 1946 to go to the West, as he no longer saw a future in his parents' wood processing company in Altmark . He became a self-employed car salesman and joined the Bundeswehr as a first lieutenant in September 1956 . Here he made it to the position of deputy division commander with the rank of brigadier general .

Uses

  • 1958–1961 Ltr. Dept. of training material special staff ATV armored troop school
  • 1962–1964 stvBtlKdr Pz (L) Btl 93
  • 1964–1965 S1 HOS 1, Hanover
  • 1965–1968 Kdr PzBtl 213, Augustdorf
  • 1968–1970 S3 I. Corps, Münster
  • 1970–1975 Head of Division P III / 4 (Pz) BMVg, Bonn
  • 1975–1979 Kdr Panzerbrigade 12 , Amberg
  • 1979–1982 Deputy Head of the 1st Mountain Division Garmisch-Partenkirchen, then retired.

Awards

literature

  • Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe (Ed.): Das Schwarze Berett - A news sheet for soldiers and reservists of the Panzer- und Panzerjägertruppe and organ Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe eV, No. 27, Bonn 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe (Ed.): Das Schwarze Berett - A news sheet for soldiers and reservists of the Panzer- und Panzerjägertruppe and organ Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe eV, No. 27, Bonn 2002, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Ibid., P. 102.
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Paul-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal