Rolf Juergens

Rolf Juergens (born June 15, 1916 in Berlin ; † January 11, 2013 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German army officer.

His father was a bank officer and stockbroker in Berlin. After an apprenticeship as a brewer and maltster , he wanted to study brewing, but volunteered as a reserve officer candidate for a year in the Wehrmacht and opted for an active career as an officer. During the Second World War he took part in various functions from platoon leader to general staff officer. Most recently he was Major i. G. on the general staff of a tank army. He belonged first to the cavalry , then to the armored force. From the end of 1945 he was managing director in the Rhineland and Hamburg.

From 1956 he was a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense and was promoted to colonel in 1960. He then held positions at the command academy of the German armed forces , as commander of the 7th Panzer Grenadier Brigade and on the command staff of the armed forces at the Federal Ministry of Defense. Since April 14, 1967 he was Brigadier General. On January 1, 1970 he became commander of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division . In February 1970 he was promoted to major general. From October 1, 1971, he was deputy commander of the III. Corps in Koblenz. He was retired on April 1, 1972. He then worked as a management consultant at Kienbaum Consultants International .

In 1968, in response to Hans Georg von Studnitz, he wrote “Save the Bundeswehr!” Pamphlets for the training of soldiers and officers.

He died in 2013 three years after the death of his wife Lieselotte nee. Weller.

Honors

• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Rolf Juergens , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/1973 from January 15, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)