Reinhold Klebe

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Reinhold Klebe (born January 16, 1913 in Dachau , † 1992 in Oberwarngau ) was an officer in the mountain troops of the Wehrmacht and a staff officer in the Bundeswehr .

After graduating from high school in 1934 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Klebe became a flag junker with the 19 Infantry Regiment in the Adolf Hitler barracks in Munich. In March 1936 he was transferred to the Mountain Infantry Regiment 99. In 1938 he was promoted to lieutenant in the 98 Mountain Infantry Regiment. During the attack on the Soviet Union he served in the corps staff of General Rudolf Konrad's mountain troops . After the Battle of Kharkov he moved to the 1st Mountain Division . Even today, old comrades accuse him of having sent the young fellows into senseless death “ only out of a desire for profile and ambition after being awarded the Knight's Cross ”.

As commander of the III. He was officially in command of the 98th Battalion of the Mountain Infantry Regiment at the Kommeno massacre . Its role in this is still unclear. In any case, he was never held responsible for this.

In August 1956 adhesive commander was a mountain infantry battalion and location elder of the Bundeswehr in Mittenwald . After the war, Klebe went through a political change and at a very early stage acknowledged that the military resistance in the “Third Reich” was traditionally worthy of tradition, at a time when their actions within the Bundeswehr were still sometimes considered “treason”. In a lecture to young officers of the Bundeswehr mountain troops in 1964, Klebe said:

"As German soldiers, we need the example of the men of July 20th in order to recognize the moral standards by which we as soldiers, as people, must live and act."

In March 1969 he was released early from the Bundeswehr with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In view of the investigations into Kommeno, he temporarily left for Argentina . He worked there as a meat inspector for a company in Cologne. From 1973 to 1975, Klebe was a military advisor in Taiwan .

literature

  • Reinhold Klebe: The Kefalonia company in September 1943. In: Die Gebirgstruppe 3/1984.
  • Hermann Frank Meyer : Come on. Narrative reconstruction of a Wehrmacht crime in Greece. Romiosini, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929889-34-X .
  • Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3861534479 ( online ).
  • (Chinese) Wang, Yue-che (2007). German Military Advisors in Taiwan 1963-1975 (明德 專案: 德國 軍事 顧問 在 台 工作 史實). Taipei, Taiwan: Transoxania Publishing Corp. ISBN 9789574146543 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1933/34
  2. ↑ Meyer: Bloody Edelweiss, p. 95f.
  3. ↑ Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv , MSg 1/3230. Dr Reinhold Klebe. Lieutenant Colonel i. G. What does July 20, 1944 mean to us today? Lecture given on July 20, 1964.
personal data
SURNAME Glue, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, officer of the mountain troops of the Wehrmacht and a staff officer of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death Oberwarngau