Rainer Kriebel

Rainer Kriebel (born January 19, 1908 in Munich ; † December 27, 1989 ) was a German officer , military attaché and intelligence officer .

Life

Rainer Kriebel was the son of the professional officer Hermann Kriebel , a free corps leader of the 1920s, co-organizer of the Hitler putsch of November 8, 1923, NSDAP politician and diplomat .

After graduating from high school, he joined the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr as an officer candidate . In 1930 he became a lieutenant , and in 1937 he attended the military academy as a captain . In 1940 he worked as Major i. G. briefly on the General Staff in the military enemy reconnaissance under Reinhard Gehlen .

In 1940 he became third general staff officer (Ic) of the military commander in France , in October 1940 first general staff officer (Ia) of the 33rd Infantry Division (later 15th Panzer Division ), with which he took part in the Africa campaign until February 1942 . From July 1942 to April 1943 he was Ia of the 2nd Panzer Division in Russia .

From May 1943 to April 1944 he was a lieutenant colonel and a tactics teacher at the Dresden War Academy . He then became the leader of the German liaison staff to the Romanian 4th Army . In the autumn of 1944 Kriebel switched to the Waffen-SS and, as SS-Obersturmbannführer, became Chief of Staff of the V SS Mountain Corps . In the last days of the war he was made Colonel i. G. promoted.

After the end of World War II , he first passed on his knowledge as an analyst to the US military intelligence service. He then became a military advisor , also following his father in this : In the 1950s, he headed a fifty-member German military mission that trained the Syrian army in the fight against Israel . In 1951, in this capacity, he took an active part in the military coup of Syrian general Adib asch-Shishakli .

Later he was a military attaché at the German embassy in Cairo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rainer Kriebel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in "France in World War II". Edition of the camp reports of the French military commander and the syntheses of the reports of the French prefects, 1940–1944. 
3. ^ Rainer Kriebel, US Army Intelligence Service: Inside the Afrika Korps. London 1999.
4. ↑ Zwy Aldouby, Jerrold Ballinger: The Shattered Silence: The Eli Cohen Affair. New York 1971; The Prussian of Arabia. in: Der Spiegel from January 1, 1953, pp. 14-16; Martin A. Lee: The Beast Reawakens. New York 1999, p. 139.
5. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1964. Munich 1995, Vol. 2, p. 1165.