Richard Reimann

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Richard Reimann (born November 2, 1892 in Minden ; † October 28, 1970 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the Luftwaffe's flak cartillery in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Reimann, joined the Klevesche Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 43 on December 4, 1911 as a flag junior , where he attended the war school in Metz from 1912 to May 7, 1913 . Reimann then acted in his regiment as a battery officer and, after the outbreak of World War I , as a platoon leader until September 14, 1914 . On that day, Reimann was slightly wounded and the next day, September 15, 1914, he returned to the second replacement division of his regiment. He stayed here until September 5, 1915 and was then assigned to training for motor vehicle shooters, which took place at the motor vehicle department in Schöneberg . After its completion, Reimann was assigned on September 28, 1915 with the Kraftwagengeschütz 37 to the Army Department Gaede and to the anti-balloon cannon school in Ostend . After he had also completed this in October 1915, Reimann was used as a shooter with the Kraftwagengeschütz 21 from October 19, 1915 to the end of May 1916 . On June 1, 1916, he was promoted to leader of the Cannon Flak 89 , whose post he held until August 1916. After that Reimann was withdrawn from the front and was from September 1916 after the end of the war until January 1919, then assistant to the artillery examination commission . Subsequently, Reimann served from January 1919 to March 1919 as a volunteer in the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division and for a few days until March 13, 1919 in the Reinhard Brigade . Then Reimann was reassigned to the artillery examination commission until the end of September 1919.

In October 1919 Reimann was assigned to inspect weapons and equipment in the Reich Ministry of Economics (RWM). His deployment there only lasted until mid-December 1919. On December 19 of that month, Reimann was assigned to the 7th light motor vehicle division , which on January 3, 1920 was renamed the 7th Artillery Regiment of the Reichswehr . There he served as a battery officer until June 8, 1920. Then Reimann joined the Freikorps Severin , where he remained until the end of September 1920.

On October 1, 1920 Reimann was transferred to the staff of the 7th Division as an auxiliary officer , but during this time he remained assigned to the Reich Ministry of Economics, where he was again assigned to the inspection of weapons and equipment. Reimann filled this position until mid-April 1921 and was transferred to Artillery Regiment 7 with effect from April 15, 1921, while remaining in his command for the inspection of weapons and equipment . Then Reimann was from October 1, 1921 to January 1923 battery officer in the III. Department of the 3rd Artillery Regiment , leaving its command in the Reich Ministry of Economics. On February 1, 1923, Reimann was promoted to assistant in the inspection for weapons and equipment. A position he held at the end of May 1929. During this time, however, he was again transferred to the 1st Artillery Regiment , leaving his command in the RWM .

From June 1929 until the end of March 1932 Reimann acted as battery chief in the 1st Artillery Regiment . Here he was also the battery operator in the 1st motor vehicle department and the 2nd motor vehicle department in Königsberg-Pillau . Subsequently, Reimann was again transferred to the Reich Ministry of Economics, where he was employed from April to June 1932 as an advisor to the flaka department in the Army Weapons Office. Reimann then held the same position as an artillery officer for weapons and ammunition in the Army Weapons Office from July 1932 to March 1935.

Transfer to the Air Force and World War II

On April 1, 1935, Reimann joined the Air Force , where he initially worked as a consultant in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) until June 10, 1935 . There he rose to the group leader on June 11, 1935, whose post he held until the end of September 1936. Following this, he was posted to the Flak Artillery School in Wustrow , where he was in command from February 1, 1938 to October 14, 1939.

After the end of the attack on Poland , Reimann was appointed commander of the 8th Flak Regiment on October 15, 1939 , which he led through Holland and northern France in the following year as part of the western campaign . On June 2, 1940 Reimann gave command of the regiment to Colonel Friedrich Römer and was then deployed from June 3, 1940 to December 19, 1941 in the area of ​​the Higher Commander of the Flak Artillery Schools. From December 20, 1941 to January 11, 1942, he was briefly assigned the command of the I. Flak Corps , whose commanding general he became on January 12, 1942. On April 19, 1942, Reimann handed this command over to General der Flieger Otto Deßloch and on April 20, 1942 he became the commander of the newly established 18th Flak Division . Under his command, the division was initially in the Rshew area in the area of Army Group Center . On March 9, 1943, Reimann handed over the command of the division to Major General Prince Heinrich Reuss and on the following day became inspector of the Flak-Artillerie-Ost. Here he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his leadership activities with the 18th Flak Division . Having the tasks of the inspector of anti-aircraft artillery East had fulfilled until September 8, 1943 Reimann for September 1943 in the Führerreserve of the High Command of the Luftwaffe (OKL) was added in order then to October 1, 1943 again Commanding General of the I. Anti-aircraft Corps . He then led this until the end of the war. The award of the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 20, 1945, which appears in some literature, has demonstrably never taken place. On May 8, 1945, Reimann was taken prisoner by the US , but was soon extradited to the Soviet Union and was only released on October 10, 1955 from the prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo .

Awards

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935–1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 95–96.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Zeidler: Stalin Justice contra Nazi crimes. The war crimes trials against German prisoners of war in the USSR from 1943 to 1952. State of knowledge and research problems. Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden 1996. ISBN 3-93164-808-7 , p. 70 "Transport list for returnees from October 1955 with those released from the Vojkovo general camp."
personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently general of the anti-aircraft artillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1970
Place of death Rottach-Egern