Military District V (Stuttgart)
The military districts of the German Empire after the "Anschluss" of Austria
The Wehrkreis V (Stuttgart) was a military administrative unit during the time of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist German Reich and existed until 1945. It was responsible for the military security of the area of the provinces of Baden and Württemberg and the recruitment and training of parts of the army of the Reichswehr or . of the Wehrmacht in this area. After 1940, Alsace was also incorporated into the military district. The military district comprised three military substitute districts ( Stuttgart , Ulm and, from 1940, Strasbourg ). The headquarters were in Stuttgart.
Commander
The commanders of Wehrkreis V were:
- Walter von Bergmann (1919–1920)
- Walther Reinhardt (1920–1924)
- Ernst Hasse (1925–1927)
- Hermann Reinicke (1927–1929)
- Hans Seutter von Lötzen (1929–1931)
- Curt Liebmann (1931-1934)
- Hermann Geyer (1934)
- Richard Ruoff (1939-1939)
- Erwin Oßwald (1939–1943)
- Rudolf Veiel (1943–1944)
- Hans Schmidt (1944)
- Maximilian Felzmann (1945)
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.