Willi Daube

Willi Daube (born May 1, 1883 in Hann. Münden ; † August 20, 1941 near Jarzewo ( Soviet Union )) was a German officer , most recently Major General of the Army of the Wehrmacht in World War II .

Life

Daube joined the infantry regiment "von Grolmann" (1. Posensches) No. 18 of the Prussian Army in Osterode on September 4, 1902 as a flagjunker . After his promotion to lieutenant on August 18, 1904, he was adjutant of the 1st battalion and, after being promoted to first lieutenant , rose to regimental adjutant in early 1914.

When the First World War broke out , Daube and his regiment were deployed in conjunction with the 41st Division, initially on the eastern front near Tannenberg and in the battle of the Masurian Lakes . At the end of the year the regiment moved to Romania . In January 1917 Daube and his regiment were withdrawn from there and transferred to the Western Front. In the further course of the war he became a captain , used as a company commander and until the end of the war he was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class, the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords and the Hanseatic Cross of the City of Hamburg. Due to multiple wounds, he also received the wound badge in silver.

After his regiment was demobilized , Daube was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr on October 1, 1919 and assigned to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 40 as a company commander. After a year he was transferred to the 3rd (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in the same function , in which he then led the 9th Company until January 31, 1928. Then Daube was in the Defense Ministry to Berlin displaced, where he worked until the end of February 1932 there Army personnel office in the army personnel department 1 (P 1). In March 1932 he was reassigned to the service, where he was a lieutenant colonel commander of the III. Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment in Bückeburg was appointed. Promoted to Colonel on April 1, 1934 , Daube transferred to the staff of Infantry Leader I in Königsberg on August 1, 1934 . On October 15, 1935, this name was renamed 11th Infantry Division . On September 1, 1936, Daube was transferred to the supplementary officers here and given for special use (e.g. V.) by the Commander- in -Chief of the Army .

On October 1, 1936, he was appointed Landwehr commander of Allenstein ; a function that Daube held until the end of August 1937. He then acted as commander of the military district command of Braunsberg in East Prussia until the end of August 1939 and, after the start of the Second World War, until November 1939 in the same function in the military district command of Allenstein.

On December 1, 1939 Daube was appointed commander of the 364 Infantry Regiment and subordinated to the 161st Infantry Division . Daube led this regiment in June 1940 as part of the 16th Army in the western campaign . On September 1, 1940, Daube was reappointed commander of the military district command of Alonestein. However, he left this post in mid-November of the same year and was appointed commander of the 371 Infantry Regiment on November 15, 1940. Here, too, the regiment was subordinate to the 161st Infantry Division, but did not take part in any combat operations until the beginning of Operation Barbarossa . In the run-up to the Eastern campaign , Daube was transferred to active troop officers on June 1, 1941. After the attack on the Soviet Union , Daube led the regiment as part of the 9th Army in the area of Army Group Center via Białystok to Smolensk . Daube fell there on August 20, 1941, 60 km northeast of it near Jarzewo . Posthumously was Daube August 1, 1941 Major General conveyed.

literature

• Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 3: Dahlmann – Fitzlaff. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1994, ISBN 3-7648-2443-3 , pp. 32-33.
• Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 , p. 65.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1924, p. 144.