Rüdiger von Reichert

Bernhard Rüdiger Ritter von Reichert (born August 18, 1917 in Munich ; † June 25, 2007 in Gauting ) was a lieutenant general in the army of the German armed forces and deputy chief inspector of the armed forces .

Military career

Coming from a traditional Bavarian civil servant and officer family on his father's side, he grew up in Gauting as the son of a lieutenant colonel. In Munich he attended a humanistic grammar school. He became a soldier in 1936 with the rank of flagjunker, where he served as a member of the 7th Artillery Regiment in Munich. After the war school in Potsdam he belonged to an artillery unit in Landshut.

After that, he was the one with the Artillery Regiment 268 268th Infantry Division to the Western Wall moved and fought with his unit in 1940 in France. In 1941 he was deployed in Russia on the eastern front in the central section, first as adjutant, then as department and battery leader. This was followed by military training to become a general staff and training at the War Academy in Hirschberg in Silesia . In 1944 he was promoted to major . He was then u. a. Second General Staff Officer (Ib) of the 331st Infantry Division and Quartermaster in the General Staff of the XXXVI. Mountain Corps. During the war he received the Iron Cross 1st class.

After being a prisoner of war in Norway, he returned to Gauting and founded a studio for professional photography for the purposes of industry and architecture. In 1956 he joined the German Armed Forces, following the tradition of his father and the family, where he worked for the Military District Command VI in Munich for three years. He was then transferred to Fort Leavenworth in the USA to an academy for training for the general staff.

Returning to Germany in 1960, he served in Bonn in the Ministry of Defense for another four years and dealt with questions relating to the organization of the army. In 1964 he took over a troop command at Panzergrenadierbrigade 10 as deputy commander in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . From 1967 to 1969 he was in command of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Brigade , which was subordinate to the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division.

In June 1969 he was transferred to the II Corps, where he took over duties as chief of staff. From 1970 to mid-1974 he was in command of the 4th Jäger Division in Regensburg , here already in the rank of major general . From July 1974 he served as deputy inspector of the army . He ended his career as an officer in the army as lieutenant general and deputy inspector general of the Bundeswehr . In 1973 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

After his departure from the German Armed Forces on April 1, 1978, he returned to his photographic work and began studying home. He published two books on the subject. He always advocated freedom of the press.

From 1982 to 1987 he was head of the Bavarian regional district of the Clausewitz Society .

In her childhood memories, the writer Maria von Taube wrote down Gauting's carefree years and her friendship with Rüdiger von Reichert in the book Between Colony and Village . He died of a stroke on June 25, 2007.

Fonts

• The Bundeswehr in a changing society , in: Wehrkunde 1971, p. 353
• The 7th Artillery Regiment of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht , Gauting 1990
• Fussberg Castle on the Würm - Eight centuries of a manor house , Munich 2001 ISBN 3-87410-091-X
• When the Americans came - end of the war in the Würmtal in 1945 , Munich 2004 ISBN 3-87410-101-0

literature

• Obituary in the Starnberg Courier
• Obituary for Rüdiger von Reichert
• Albrecht Charisius, Julius Mader , No longer secret , Berlin 1978
• Munzinger Archive, Ravensburg 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger von Reichert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 190, October 9, 1973.