Wilhelm Ulex

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Wilhelm Ulex (born July 15, 1880 in Bremerhaven ; † June 26, 1959 ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the infantry in World War II .

Life

On September 2, 1899, Ulex joined the Holstein Field Artillery Regiment No. 24 as a flag junior , where he was promoted to lieutenant on February 16, 1901 . On October 18, 1909, he was promoted to lieutenant and on December 18, 1913 to captain . With his regiment Ulex was used on the Western Front during the First World War .

After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr . Ulex was deployed to the 2nd Division in Stettin in the staff of Artillery Leader II and promoted to major on October 1, 1922 . In 1926 he moved to Schwerin in the staff of the 2nd (Prussian) Artillery Regiment . In this position he became lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1928 .

He was on October 1, 1931 as Colonel in command of Artillery Regiment 2 and then from October 1933 as Major General Artillery Leader VI. In August 1935 he became Infantry Leader II and on October 1, 1935, when the units were exposed, he was Commander of the 12th Infantry Division as Lieutenant General . From October 6, 1936, as commanding general , he commanded the newly established XI. Army Corps in Hanover . He was considered politically unreliable and retired on March 31, 1939 as General of the Artillery .

During the attack on Poland he was drafted again due to a lack of army commanders and in September he was commanding general of the X. Army Corps , which was subordinate to the 8th Army in Army Group South . He was used from October 15, 1939 as a commander in the southern border section. In March 1940 he protested alongside Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz , the commander-in-chief of the German occupation army in Poland, against the acts of violence of the SS and the police forces in occupied Poland and categorically demanded their replacement: and moral feeling, so that one can actually speak of degeneration '”. Ulex was removed from his post a short time later.

On June 2, 1940, he was commander in Military District I and on December 31, 1941, at the age of 61, he retired.

Ulex was also critical of the National Socialist regime because of his Christian worldview (he was a sympathizer of the Confessing Church and was therefore classified by Heinrich Himmler as an "incorrigible representative of the Confessional Front").

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  1. ↑ a b Klaus-Jürgen Müller : On the history and content of Himmler's speech to the senior generals on March 13, 1940 in Koblenz . ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 18 (1970) Issue 1 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifz-muenchen.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ranking list of the German Imperial Army . Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1930, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Ulex, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the artillery during the Second World War
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1959