Wilhelm Raithel

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Raithel (right) with Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven in 1942

Wilhelm "Willy" Raithel (born October 15, 1894 in Ingolstadt , † March 24, 1960 in Munich ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht .

Life

Wilhelm Raithel joined the 1st Foot Artillery Regiment at the beginning of August 1913 as a squire . In the First World War he was deployed on the Western Front. In September 1914 he was promoted to lieutenant . From November 1914 he served in the 1st foot artillery regiment as platoon leader in the 1st battery and then as a battery leader until he was wounded in March 1915 . In 1917 he worked as an orderly officer. This was followed by his deployment as a battery leader in the 3rd foot artillery regiment . At the end of 1918 he moved back to the 1st foot artillery regiment until mid-1919. He joined the Reichswehr . From October 1920 to October 1923 and with interruptions due to his recall to the 7th Driving Department in Munich from March 1928 to October 1932 he was in the 7th Artillery Regiment chief of the 2nd battery. Then he was on the staff of the 1st division of the regiment for two years.

Command posts in different departments followed from 1934 to 1939, including from April 1938 to October 1939 as a battalion commander in the artillery training regiment. In early 1937 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In October 1939 he was a staff officer in Army Group B until mid-May 1941, from the beginning of 1940 in the rank of colonel . To then be used for almost a year as artillery commander 109 (Arko109).

From April 1942, now as major general , he was in command of the 199th Infantry Division until August 1943 . From then on he served first as Higher Artillery Commander (Harko) 312 and then as commander of the newly established 312nd Artillery Division with use on the Eastern Front . In April 1944 he was briefly transferred to the Führerreserve .

This was followed by his assignment as commander of the Artillery School II in Gross-Born until the beginning of 1945 and then his command post in the newly established Bärwalde infantry division until his capture .

In March 1945 he was captured by the Polish 1st Army near Schivelbein and taken prisoner by the Soviets. In 1950 he was sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp and released in 1955.

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives IV ; z. B. Ranking 22332, image 56 at ancestry.com, accessed December 12, 2019
  2. ↑ GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 69. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (189th-218th), Part DC . In: The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration (Ed.): Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-9982 . Washington 1974, p. 37 .
  3. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 249 ( google.de [accessed on April 22, 2019]).
  4. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 358 ( google.de [accessed on April 22, 2019]).
  5. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 202 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Raithel, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raithel, Willy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1960
Place of death Munich