Paul Baethke

Paul Baethke (born January 27, 1895 in Elbholz ( Hanover ), † January 23, 1953 in Lüchow ) was a German medical officer , last doctor general in World War II .

Life

Paul Baethke joined the army in mid-1914, received his doctorate in 1922 on the subject of results of post-testing with retention of placenta parts in Berlin and became an assistant doctor in 1923 . Until 1937 Oberfeldarzt promoted, he served previously in the sanitary department 6 and 19 and served from 26 August 1939, first as a divisional surgeon (IVb) in the 215th Infantry Division and of 11 August 1940 from October 1940 Colonel physician , until the beginning of June 1942 as commander of the Army Medical Department 695 (motorized) . On June 8, 1942, Baethke rose as the successor to Alfred Bayer to the corps doctor of the XVII. Army Corps , whose function he held until June 10, 1944. He was then an army doctor in the 18th Army from June 11, 1944 until the end of the war . In October 1944 he was promoted to general doctor. There he got caught in the Kurland basin during the last months of the war and was taken prisoner by the Soviets on May 8, 1945 . He was released from this in 1946.

literature

• Dermot Bradley: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945 Volume 1: Abberger – Bitthorn . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2423-9 , p. 170.