Wilhelm Meyer-Detring
Wilhelm Meyer-Detring (born May 9, 1906 in Breslau ; † April 5, 2002 ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1925, Meyer-Detring joined the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr , to which he belonged until 1936, most recently as captain and company commander . From 1936 to 1938 he completed general staff training. In the Wehrmacht he was employed as a general staff officer in the IX. Army corps in Kassel . In the western campaign he took part as the first general staff officer of the 299th Infantry Division , then he served in the same position in the 137th Infantry Division until mid-1942 . From 1942 to 1944 Meyer-Detring was Third General Staff Officer (Ic / AO) on the staff of Commander-in-Chief West . From September 1944 until the end of the war he was a General Staff Officer of the Army (Op H) in the Wehrmacht command staff . In May 1945 he brought the news of the German surrender to Ferdinand Schörner in Bad Welchau in Bohemia on behalf of Karl Dönitz . His last rank was colonel .
After the end of the war Meyer-Detring was in American and British captivity until 1946 . He then worked as a manager in a factory in Württemberg until he joined the newly founded Bundeswehr as a colonel in 1956. Here he was initially head of the German liaison staff at the United States Army Europe (USAREUR), later he worked for NATO as brigadier general and department head at the COMLANDCENT in Fontainebleau . From 1959 he was deputy commander of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division and from 1961 to 1963 commander of the 1st Panzer Division with the rank of major general . After that he was commanding general of the 1st Corps in Munster until his departure on September 30, 1966 .
Awards
- German cross in gold on February 28, 1942
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star 1966
Fonts
- As a German with NATO. Guide to working with allies. Bernard and Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
literature
- Helmut R. Hammerich, Michael Poppe: The Army 1950 to 1970: conception, organization, installation. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-486-57974-1 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Meyer-Detring in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ^ Clemens Range: The tolerated army: 50 years of the Bundeswehr . Translimes Media publishing house, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015382-9 , p. 281.
Curt Siewert (1956–1957) | Gerhard Matzky (1957–1960) | Heinz Trettner (1960–1963) | Wilhelm Meyer-Detring (1963–1966) | Jürgen Bennecke (1966–1968) | Otto Uechtritz (1968–1970) | Hans Hinrichs (1970–1974) | Hans-Heinrich Klein (1974–1978) | Ferdinand von Senger and Etterlin (1978–1979) | Kurt von der Osten (1979–1982) | Gerhard Wachter (1982–1986) | Dieter Clauss (1986–1988) | Jörn Söder (1988–1991) | Klaus Naumann (1991) | Hannsjörn Boës (1991–1995)
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Willi Mantey (1956–1957) | Paul Reichelt (1957–1959) | Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand (1959–1961) | Wilhelm Meyer-Detring (1961–1963) | Anton Detlev von Plato (1963–1966) | Klaus Schubert (1966–1970) | Horst Hildebrandt (1970–1972) | Hans-Joachim Löser (1972–1974) | Wilhelm Garken (1974–1977) | Christian Schünemann (1977–1979) | Heinz Kasch (1979–1983) | Henning von Ondarza (1983–1985) | Helge Hansen (1985–1987) | Hartmut Behrendt (1987–1991) | Ernst Lissinna (1991–1994) | Hartmut Behrendt (1994) | Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (1994–1996) | Christian Hellwig (1996-2000) | Horst Förster (2000–2002) | Karl Ackermann (2002–2005) | Wolf-Dieter Langheld (2005–2008) | Markus Kneip (2008–2012) | Carsten Jacobson (2012–2014) | Johann Langenegger (2014–2017) | Markus Laubenthal (2017–2018) | Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart (since 2018)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer-Detring, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 2002 |