Rolf Elble

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Rudolf "Rolf" Elble (born April 27, 1916 in Hanover ; † 1989 ) was a German officer ( Colonel i. G.), political scientist and military historian .

Life

Elble was born in 1916 to a judge. He attended elementary school for three years and, from 1925, the humanistic grammar school in Bruchsal . After graduating from high school in Durlach in 1934, he joined the 14th (Bad.) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr as a flag junior .

In 1936 he was promoted to lieutenant . He served u. a. as platoon leader and battalion adjutant. In January 1942 he became company commander in Infantry Replacement Battalion 14. In June 1942 he became a tactics teacher at School IV for officer candidates of the infantry in Ohrdruf. From January 1943 he was regimental adjutant of the 5th Grenadier Replacement Regiment and from February 1943 battalion commander of the Croatian Infantry Replacement Regiment 369. After that he was in the Führerreserve in the High Command of the Army : In July 1943 he became the staff of the 76th Infantry Division and in November 1943 he was appointed Chief of Army Armaments and Commander of the Replacement Army . In February 1944, he was transferred to the War Academy . In May 1944 he was promoted to major . In August he was transferred to the General Staff and then Second General Staff Officer (Ib) of the 329th Infantry Division . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. Elble was taken prisoner by the Soviets in May 1945 , where he remained until April 1949.

Then he worked in business. In 1951 he joined the Federal Border Police as an officer . In 1956 he was accepted into the army of the Bundeswehr . He was initially a teacher for military and war history at the Army Officer's School I in Hanover for two years . After that he was chief of staff of the II Corps in Ulm for six months . In 1959/60 he was Chief of Staff of the 10th Panzer Grenadier Division in Sigmaringen and then General Staff Officer for three years at the NATO headquarters in Rocquencourt near Paris.

From 1964 to 1974 he worked at the Military History Research Office (MGFA) in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1965 he became head of the Polish Campaign working group and in 1966 head of a research department. In addition to his research activities, he studied political science , philosophy and modern history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1965 . 1969/70 he was at Dieter Oberdörfer and Andreas Gruber Hill at the Faculty with the thesis Synoptic grasp of policy and general staff thinking strategic planning as a prerequisite for Dr. phil. PhD.

Elble was married to a von Unruh from 1961 and was the father of two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • From the future German officer. Current thoughts on the officer profession . Verlag WEU / Offene Zeiten Verlag, Bonn 1957.
  • Leadership thinking, staff work. Development and Outlook. An attempt (= contributions to defense research . Vol. 14/15). With a foreword by Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg , Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1967.
  • (Ed.): Clausewitz in our time. Outlook after 10 years of the Clausewitz Society . Commissioned by the Clausewitz Society , Defense and Knowledge Publishing Company, Darmstadt 1971, ISBN 3-8033-0208-0 .
  • The Battle of the Bzura in September 1939 from a German and a Polish point of view (= individual writings on the military history of the Second World War . 15). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1975, ISBN 3-7930-0174-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Elble: Synoptic understanding of politics and general staff thinking as a prerequisite for strategic planning . Dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1969, no p.
personal data
SURNAME Elble, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elbe, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, political scientist and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1989