Military District XII (Wiesbaden)
The military districts of the German Empire after the "Anschluss" of Austria
The military district XII (Wiesbaden) was a territorial administrative unit of the Wehrmacht in the Nazi Reich and was from 1936 to 1945. He was in charge of military security of the territories southern Rhine Province , Hesse-Nassau , Saarland and after 1940 also Luxembourg and Lorraine and the Ersatzgestellung and training of personnel for the army in this area. The military district comprised several military substitute districts . The headquarters were in Wiesbaden .
Commander
The commanders of Wehrkreis XII were:
- Franz Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein 1936–1938
- Walter Schroth 1938–1939
- Albrecht Steppuhn 1939–1943
- Walter Schroth 1943–1944
- Paul Danhauser 1944–1944
- Herbert Osterkamp 1944–1945
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.