Military district IX (Kassel)

The military districts of the German Empire after the "Anschluss" of Austria

Map of the military district IX

The Military District IX (Kassel) was a territorial administrative unit of the Wehrmacht in the Nazi Reich and was from 1935 to 1945. He was in charge of military security in the area of Hesse and Thuringia as well as the recruitment and training of staff for the army . The military district comprised the three replacement districts of Kassel, Frankfurt am Main and Weimar . The headquarters were in Kassel .

Commander

The commanders of Wehrkreis IX were:

• Friedrich Dollmann 1935–1939
• Rudolf Schniewindt 1939–1942
• Paul Otto 1942–1943
• Otto Schellert 1943–1944
• Philipp Kleffel 1944
• Otto Schellert 1944
• Theodor Petsch 1944–1945
• Maximilian Fretter-Pico 1945

headquarters

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  The former headquarters in Kassel (1958)

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  The former headquarters in Kassel, today the seat of the Federal Social Court (2007)

literature

• 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.