Rudolf Wätjen
Rudolf Wätjen (born January 9, 1915 in Dresden ; † February 19, 2005 ) was a German officer , most recently a brigadier general of the Bundeswehr .
Life
On 16 December 1939 he married in Burgscheidungen Rose-Renate Countess von der Schulenburg (born July 15, 1914 in Burgscheidungen), eldest daughter of Adelbert Graf von der Schulenburg (1885 to 1951) and Elisabeth Countess von der Schulenburg (1892-1955) .
Wätjen served in the Second World War as major and commander of the tank reconnaissance department "Greater Germany", then as a lieutenant colonel and group leader in the inspection of the armored forces in the Army High Command (OKH).
On April 18, 1943, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .
After the end of the Second World War, Wätjen served, among other things, as deputy commander of the 5th Panzer Division . From 1969 to 1970 he was in command of the Combat Troop School III in Munster.
Individual evidence
- ↑ grave of Rudolf Wätjen in: grabsteine.genealogy.net; accessed on October 3, 2018
- ^ Dietrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Hans Wätjen: History of the sex from the Schulenburg 1237 to 1983. Lower Saxony printing and publishing house Günter Hempel Wolfsburg, ISBN 3 87327 000 5 , Wolfsburg 1984, p. 469.
- ^ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (Ed.): " Braunbuch ". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968. ( Online ( Memento from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Google Book Search ).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wätjen, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 2005 |