Military district II (Stettin)
The military districts of the German Empire after the "Anschluss" of Austria
The military district II (Stettin) was a military administrative unit during the time of the Weimar Republic and later the National Socialist German Reich and consisted He was in charge of military security of the territories of the provinces until 1945. Mecklenburg and Pomerania and the recruitment and training of parts of the army of the Reichswehr or the Wehrmacht in this area. The military district comprised three replacement districts ( Schwerin , Köslin and Stettin). The headquarters were in Szczecin in Pomerania.
Commander
The commanders of Wehrkreis II were:
- Erich Weber (1920–1921)
- Hans von Hammerstein-Gesmold (1921–1923)
- Erich von Tschischwitz (1923–1927)
- Joachim von Amsberg (1927–1929)
- Rudolf Schniewindt (1929–1931)
- Fedor von Bock (1931-1935)
- Johannes Blaskowitz (1935–1938)
- Adolf Strauss (1938–1939)
- Hans Feige (1939–1940)
- Max Föhrenbach (1940-1942)
- Werner Kienitz (1942–1945)
- Walter Braemer (1945)
- Walter Hörnlein (1945)
literature
- German Order of Battle 1944: The regiments, formations and units of the German ground forces. Arms and Armor Press, London, 1975.
- The German Remplacement Army. Military Intelligence Division, War Department, April 1944.
- The German Remplacement Army, Supplement May 1945. Military Intelligence Division, War Department, May 1945.
- Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich. Harald Boldt, Boppard.
- Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand : The Army 1933-1945. Mittler & Sohn, Frankfurt am Main.
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf.
- Georg Tessin: German associations and troops 1919–1939. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück.