Peter Sommer (Colonel)

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Peter Sommer (born February 25, 1907 in Hildesheim , † March 17, 1978 ) was a German officer , most recently a colonel in the Wehrmacht and SS standard leader of the Waffen-SS , an official and trade unionist in the fishing industry .

Life

Peter Sommer is in some sources as a quarter Jew called and evidence indicates that he was not only 1936 out of the army because his father as a captain in the First World War had fallen. He joined the 6th Infantry Regiment in 1925 . Until the end of 1937, posts mainly as adjutant in various associations followed. After graduating from the War Academy , he took over the post of Third General Staff Officer in the 22nd Infantry Division and held this position at the beginning of the war. In this division he served together with his future friend Kurt Ditzen , who was Ordonnanzoffizier (Ic) there.

Activities in World War II

At the beginning of 1941 he became the first general staff officer of the 98th Infantry Division and in this position took part in the Taifun company . From November 1942 to mid-1943 he was the leader of Grenadier Regiment 282 of the 98th Infantry Division.

In the Führerreserve for a short time , he was transferred to the Waffen SS without receiving an SS number and, under Walter Krüger, with the right to wear the uniform of an SS Obersturmbannführer , was employed as the first general staff officer of the 2nd SS Panzer Division until mid-1944 . He fought with the division on the Eastern Front , including during the Citadel operation . From November 1943 he temporarily led the SS division "Reich" and was replaced by Heinz Lammerding after a month . In early 1944 he was promoted to Colonel i. G. (with the uniform of the Waffen-SS as SS-Standartenführer) and temporarily took over the position of Chief of Staff of the IV SS Panzer Corps for the newly occupied Nikolaus Heilmann . In mid-1944, Sommer was proposed for the Knight's Cross by his sponsor Walter Krüger , but was rejected by Wilhelm Burgdorf . With the change from Walter Krüger to VI. SS Volunteer Army Corps was also transferred to this corps as chief of staff. His service with the Waffen SS ended at the beginning of 1945.

From January to February 1945 he was in command of the newly established Köslin Infantry Division and came with the division to the front of the Vistula Army Group . Then in February 1945 he took over command of the Infantry Division Pomerania, which had emerged from the Köslin Infantry Division . He was wounded by a shell splinter. From the end of March 1945 a Colonel Sommer was listed as combat commander Bielefeld .

Activities after World War II

Peter Sommer was active in various functionaries and in unions after the Second World War. From 1952 until 1957 he was elected managing director ; he had previously been the manager's representative; of the Deutsche Fischwerbung Bremerhaven (DFW) . Based on his idea, the Nutritional Advisory Board of the German Fish Industry (EWB) was founded in 1953 . From July 1957 he was general manager of the DGE in Frankfurt . Since 1963 he was active for the Nordsee-Zeitung , supporting his friend Kurt Ditzen . Around 1969 he was the publishing director of the Nordwestdeutscher Verlag Ditzen & Co KG., Which published the Nordsee-Zeitung, in Bremerhaven. At the end of 1972 he retired.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • with Walter Schwedtke: The fish range . Expertise helps sell, Book I and Book II, Hamburg, 1954.

literature

  • John Donoghue: The Death's Head Chess Club . Roman , Atlantic Books, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Allgemeine Fischwirtschaftszeitung . C. Th. Görg., 1978, p. 38 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  2. ^ A b Bryan Mark Rigg: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military . University Press of Kansas, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7006-1178-2 , pp. 100 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  3. ^ Arcana . ARCANA, 2003, p. 210 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  4. ↑ George M. Nipe Jr: Decision in the Ukraine: German Panzer Operations on the Eastern Front, Summer 1943 . Stackpole Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8117-4864-3 , pp. 150 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 5 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  6. ^ A b Douglas E. Nash: From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 1: IV. SS Panzer Corps and the Battles for Warsaw, July – November 1944 . Casemate, 2019, ISBN 978-1-61200-636-9 , pp. 8 ( google.de [accessed on February 6, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Helmut Lindenblatt: Pomerania 1945: one of the last chapters in the history of the fall of the Third Reich . G. Rautenberg, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7921-0286-2 , pp. 256 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Osnabrück News . Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück., 1976, p. 164 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  9. ↑ a b Allgemeine Fischwirtschaftszeitung . C. Th. Görg., 1957, p. 7 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  10. ^ Germany (West) Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests: Annual report on German fishing . 1951, p. 319 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Information for the fishing industry . Federal Research Center for Fisheries, 1961 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  12. ↑ a b Der Druckspiegel . 1973, p. 48 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Fish the contemporary food . H. Heenemann, 1969, p. 193 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2019]).

Remarks

  1. ^ Letters to and remarks from SS-Obersturmführer Paul Meissner on his former comrade Peter Sommer.
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel, official and trade unionist in the fishing industry
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1978