Ulrich von Coler

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Ulrich von Coler, 1917
Ulrich von Coler, 1923

Ulrich von Coler (born December 6, 1885 in Küstrin , † May 19, 1953 in Timmendorfer Strand ) was a German colonel in the white Finnish army in the Finnish Civil War and a colonel in the Wehrmacht in World War II .

origin

His parents were Captain Karl von Coler (* 1846) and his wife Marie, née von Prollius (* 1860). His father was raised to the Prussian nobility on October 29, 1883 . His uncle Alwin von Coler was a general physician in the Prussian army.

Life

Coler was a Prussian professional soldier. It was during the First World War as a lieutenant in September 1915 after Lockstedt commanded and led the Finnish Civil War as a captain (since 1916) with 38 other German officers that around 1,250 soldiers strong 2nd Brigade of the Finnish soldiers in The Estonian combat zone. At the beginning of March 1918 he came to Finland with the first homebuyers. He became a colonel in the White Finnish Army and commander of the 2nd Division until the victory over the Finnish revolutionary movement a few months later. The German officers were then removed from the Finnish army again . Coler did not expect a position in the Provisional Reichswehr in 1919 and switched to Finnish white paramilitary militias for ten years.

With the rearmament of the growing Reichswehr , Coler saw a new professional perspective in what was now National Socialist Germany and returned there in 1934. At the beginning of the Second World War he acted as regimental commander during the invasion of Poland , from the summer of 1940 he was a senior occupation officer (field commander) in northern France ( Quimper ) and in the Crimea , most recently as a colonel.

War crimes

Coler bragged about racially motivated murders while in Poland . It is very likely that he was personally involved in the shooting of Jews in the Crimea . Officers involved reported about his behavior in post-war proceedings before the Düsseldorf Regional Court : he had always emphasized his own “ master humanity ” or the “sub-humanity of the Russian population” and asked subordinates to take pictures of the victims beforehand during executions in order to “their To prove wretchedness ”, and under“ Waving his pistol boasted of its use ”.

family

In 1917 he married Edit von Coler , née Manzel - Heinemann . Three years after the birth of their only daughter Jutta, the couple separated in 1922.

Publications

  • Ungdomen framåt! Schildt Verlag, 1921, p. 191, in Finnish
  • Suomalaisten jääkärien parissa: muistelmia yhteistyön ajoilta 1915-1918. with Jalmari Kara, Verlag Kustannusoy, Kirja, 1919, p. 82, in Finnish

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Aristocratic Archives : Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Verlag Ostsee, CA Starke., 1985, p. 206
  2. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility . First volume, Berlin 1892, p. 89
  3. ↑ Peter Lieb : Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg ?: Warfare and Fight against Partisans in France 1943/44. Volume 69 of sources and representations on contemporary history / Sources and representations on contemporary history Wehrmacht in the Nazi dictatorship. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, ISBN 3-486-57992-4 , p. 631, here p. 59
  4. ↑ Manfred Oldenburg: Ideology and military calculation: the occupation policy of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union in 1942. Böhlau Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-412-14503-3 , p. 365, here 212ff.
  5. ↑ Dieter Pohl: Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht: German military occupation and native population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944 (=  sources and representations on contemporary history; vol. 71), Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-486-59174-6 , p. 399 , here p. 54.
  6. ↑ Oliver von Wrochem: Erich von Manstein: Annihilation War and History Policy. Volume 27 of War in History, Schöningh Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-506-76599-X , p. 431, here p. 367 and 374.
  7. ^ Wolf Kaiser (ed.): Perpetrators in the war of extermination. The attack on the Soviet Union and the genocide of the Jews. Propylaen Verlag, 2002 ISBN 3-549-07161-2 , p. 224, here p. 67 ff.
  8. ↑ Marcel Stein: Eleventh Army and the "Final Solution" 1941/42. Biblio Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-764-82586-3 , p. 360, here p. 37.
  9. ^ Jacques Picard: Edit by Coler. Schiller Verlag, Hermannstadt / Bonn, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941271-31-9 , p. 230.
personal data
SURNAME Coler, Ulrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel in the white Finnish army, later in the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1953
Place of death Timmendorfer beach