Wilhelm Schneckenburger

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Wilhelm "Willi" Schneckenburger (born March 30, 1891 in Tübingen , † October 14, 1944 in Belgrade ) was a German infantry general in World War II .

Life

Wilhelm Schneckenburger joined the Württemberg Army in 1909 as a flagjunker and was promoted to lieutenant in the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm I" (6th Württembergisches) No. 124 until 1911 . In addition to both classes of the Iron Cross , he was awarded the Golden Military Merit Medal on May 12, 1915, and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Military Merit on February 20, 1917 during the First World War .

After the end of the war he moved to the Reichswehr as a first lieutenant and served as an adjutant in the 13th Infantry Regiment . At the beginning of December 1922 he was promoted to captain and in 1929/30 took part in a course under Hans Reinhardt and Walter Model , which was attended by a large number of later generals , such as B. Alfred Jodl , Adolf Heusinger and Gustav Heisterman von Ziehlberg . In 1936 he served in the rank of colonel as chief of the 11th department in the general staff and in September 1939 became deputy chief of the general staff of the III. Army Corps .

During the Second World War from October 1940, major general since July 1940 , until the end of 1942 he was in command of the newly established 125th Infantry Division . In this position he was, since July 1942 Lieutenant General , awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for storming the city of Bataisk , after having received the German Cross in Gold on May 5, 1942 . Then he was German general in the 3rd Romanian Army . Later in the war, Schneckenburger worked from March to July 1943 as commanding general of the XVII. Army Corps . With this he took part in the Donets-Mius offensive . At the end of April 1943, Schneckenburger was promoted to general of the infantry.

Then he was head of the military mission in Bulgaria until the beginning of September 1944 and negotiated with the newly formed Bulgarian government Bagrianoff . At the end of September 1944, the improvised Schneckenburger Corps (or General Command Schneckenburger or Corps Belgrade ) was set up, which subsequently fought in Croatia , Montenegro and Serbia . In this position he died during the Belgrade operation of the Red Army and its allies, which Schneckenburger led as commander on the German side. The Schneckenburger Corps was then dissolved.

Schneckenburger was married to Johanna Ilse von Alvensleben (1897–1972), divorced von Gröling, from mid-1938 .

literature

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army . ES Mittler & Sohn., 1927, p. 149 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Hansgeorg Model: The German General Staff Officer: His selection and training in the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr . Bernard & Graefe, 1968, p. 42 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  7. ^ Georg Meyer: Adolf Heusinger: Service of a German Soldier, 1915 to 1964 . Mittler, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8132-0769-9 , pp. 106 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
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  10. ↑ Veit Scherzer : The knight's cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives . 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , pp. 675 .
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  12. ↑ Percy Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (Wehrmacht command staff), 1944–1945 . tape I . Bernard & Graefe, 1982, ISBN 978-3-88199-073-8 , pp. 809 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  13. ^ Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau: Journal for European Security . ES Mittler & Sohn, 1967, p. 36 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  14. ↑ General Command Schneckenburger (DE-1958 - DE-1958_96bac9da-d374-44a0-ae09-57312b2ed481) - Archives Portal Europe. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  15. ^ Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945: Bd. Register of name associations; Volkssturm; Hitler Youth ; Allies . Mittler, 1965, p. 228 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Schneckenburger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneckenburger, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the infantry
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1944
Place of death Belgrade