Rudolf Lüters

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Rudolf Lüters (born May 10, 1883 in Darmstadt , † December 24, 1945 in Krasnogorsk ) was a German officer , most recently general of the infantry in World War II .

Life

Lüters occurred on November 2, 1902 as a cadet in the Infantry Regiment "Prince Carl" (fourth Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 118 and was there first on 18 June 1903 Ensign and on April 24, 1904. Lieutenant promoted. In 1909 he was appointed adjutant of the III. Battalion and promoted him to first lieutenant on April 18, 1913 . As such, Lüters was sent to the Potsdam War School on October 1 to work as an inspection officer.

With the outbreak of World War I , Lüters took over as chief of a company in Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 88 and was deployed with the unit on the Western Front . Lüters was wounded for the first time in September, promoted to captain on December 24, 1914 , and after his recovery in mid-June 1915, company commander in the infantry regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 116 .

After his return to the front, he was wounded again on October 1, 1915 and, after a stay in a hospital and recovery, was appointed leader of the 56th Division's recruit depot on January 27, 1916 . He resigned this post when he was appointed battalion commander in his regular regiment on May 10, 1916 and remained at the front until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, he was accepted into the Reichswehr and continued to work as a company commander in various regiments. From October 1, 1920 to January 31, 1925 he was active in this function in the 15th Infantry Regiment and was transferred to the staff of Infantry Leader VI in Münster on February 1, 1925 while being promoted to Major . Lüters returned to the 15th Infantry Regiment on February 1, 1928 and took over as commander of the 1st Battalion in Giessen . At the same time he acted as state commander Hesse and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 1, 1930 . From December 1, 1930 to January 31, 1933 he was then active in the staff of the 5th Division in Stuttgart and became a colonel on October 1, 1932 . Subsequently, Lüters was deployed from February 1, 1933 as commander of the 1st (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Königsberg . In the following years he acted as an inspector of various military replacement inspections: first in Breslau from June 1, 1935 to May 31, 1938 and then until May 5, 1941 in Graz . During this period he was promoted to major general on August 1, 1935, and to lieutenant general on October 1, 1938.

On May 6, 1941, Lüters was appointed commander of the 223rd Infantry Division , which he commanded until October 19, 1942 during the attack on the Soviet Union . He was then briefly transferred to the Führerreserve and appointed on November 1, 1942, commander of the German troops in Croatia . On February 1, 1943, he was promoted to General of the Infantry. In August 1943, the staff of his command post became the XV. Mountain Corps formed and Lüters appointed General Command of the Corps on August 25 . In the Schwarz case , a major offensive against partisans of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army on the Sutjeska River in Bosnia in May and June 1943, Lüters was in command alongside Alexander Löhr . On June 10th, Lüters issued the order that no man of weapons age should be allowed to leave the containment ring alive. The 1st Mountain Division, for example, shot 411 of 498 prisoners. He relinquished his command on October 31, 1943 was transferred to the Führerreserve again until December 11, 1943, and was then briefly appointed commander of the refreshment staff south. On January 1, 1944, he was last added to the Führerreserve. On July 31, 1944, Lüters was honorably discharged from the Wehrmacht and retired.

From May 22, 1945, Lüters was in Soviet captivity , where he died on December 24, 1945.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf-Dieter Müller , Hans-Erich Volkmann , Military History Research Office (ed.): The Wehrmacht. Part 757 of Die Wehrmacht: Myth and Reality. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 9783486563832 , pp. 911-912.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 118.
personal data
SURNAME Lüters, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the infantry in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1945
Place of death Krasnogorsk