Walter Witting

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Walter Witting (born July 24, 1879 in Kolberg ); † February 19, 1947 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg was an officer , most recently lieutenant general of the German Air Force in World War II .

Early years and World War I

Witting joined the Danzig Infantry Regiment No. 128 on September 7, 1897 as a flagjunker , where he initially served until the end of March 1910. From here Witting was assigned to the Prussian War Academy in Berlin on October 1, 1906 , which he attended until July 20, 1909. He then worked in the General Staff from April 1, 1910 to the end of March 1914 . This was followed by Witting's transfer to the General Staff of the Inspector General of Military Transportation, where he remained until August 1, 1914.

During the first years of the First World War , Witting served in various general staffs until mid-March 1917: From August 2, 1914 to March 8, 1915 in the general staff of the IX. Reserve Corps , then until May 8, 1915 in the General Staff of the 7th Division and from May 9, 1915 to November 24, 1916 in the General Staff of the 5th Army . His last assignment took place from November 25, 1916 to March 19, 1917 in the General Staff of the German Crown Prince Army Group . After an illness, Witting was appointed on June 1, 1917 as the representative of the head of the field railways for Romania , whose quarters were in Bucharest . He held this position until April 11, 1918. After the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, Witting was used from April 12, 1918 to the end of November 1918 for special use with the head of the intelligence community. During the last weeks of the war, Witting returned as a major to his parent regiment, the 118 Infantry Regiment .

Weimar Republic

From there, however, only a few weeks later on December 4, 1918, he was transferred to the winding-up office of the Great General Staff, where he was deployed until January 6, 1919. He was then from January 7, 1919 to November 10, 1919 General Staff Officer at Group Command I and in the same position from November 11, 1919 to the end of March 1922 at Military District Command III. On March 31, 1922, Witting retired from active military service with the character of a lieutenant colonel.

In National Socialism

On May 4, 1934, Witting was reactivated and deployed as an E-Officer (supplementary officer ) for the Luftwaffe, which was under construction. Here he was initially employed as a group leader for defense economics at the Central Raw Materials Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM). He held this position until the end of September 1937. Subsequently, from October 1937, he was the representative of the inspector of the Defense Industry Inspection IV in Dresden . On November 1, 1937, he was appointed inspector of Defense Economy Inspection IV.

He held this position until the end of September 1940. From October 1, 1940 to the end of January 1941 he was inspector for raw materials in the RLM and then an officer z. b. V. of the RLM with simultaneous assignment to the High Command of the Wehrmacht in the Wehrwirtschafts- und Armaments Office . On May 31, 1943, Witting left there and retired.

From September 1940 Witting worked as a lobbyist for the Flick Group .

On November 6, 1945 he was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces and was interned in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg until his death in 1947 .

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945 . Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 376481701-1 , pp. 250-251.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schulz: Armaments production in the Dresden area 1933-1945 , Military historical writings of the working group Sächsische Militärgeschichte eV Issue 11, 2005, p. 13, ISBN 3980952037
  2. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD , Mühlberg / Elbe. Mühlberg / Elbe 2008, p. 204, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Ramge: Die Flicks: a German family story about money, power and politics . Campus Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37404-8 , pp. 121–122 (accessed February 20, 2012).
  4. ↑ Johannes Bähr, Axel Drecoll, Bernhard Gotto: The Flick Group in the Third Reich . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, June 1, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 277 (accessed February 20, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Witting, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1947
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg