Rudolf August Demme

Rudolf August Demme (born June 3, 1894 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † January 5, 1975 in Merl (Meckenheim) ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II .

Life

Demme fought as an officer in World War I and retired from army service in 1919. In 1934 he joined the Wehrmacht and served as a training officer in the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War in 1936/1937 . In the first two years of the Second World War , he led various engineer and tank engineer battalions before he took over the 59th Panzer Grenadier Regiment in June 1942. As a commander, he led the 17th Panzer Division and the 132nd Infantry Division . At the end of the war, Demme was taken prisoner by the Soviets. On October 6, 1955, he was released from prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo .

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1939) in gold
German cross in gold on September 20, 1942
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves
- Knight's Cross on August 14, 1943
- Oak leaves on July 28, 1944 (537th award)

Individual evidence

^ Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht, 1939-1945 , Biblio-Verlag, 1998, p. 197. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).
↑ 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."
↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .
↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Demme, Rudolf August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Demme, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	June 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	5th January 1975
Place of death	Merl (Meckenheim)

[1] Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht, 1939-1945 , Biblio-Verlag, 1998, p. 197. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).

[Zeidler-2] 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."

[3] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .

[4] Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .