Willi Wagenknecht

Willi Wagenknecht (born January 22, 1912 in the area of ​​what would later become the Wuppertal , † 1998 ) was a German officer , most recently major general in the Bundeswehr , and a pilot. He was u. a. Commander of the Air Force Officer's School and Commander of Military Area Commands III and VI.

Career

Reichswehr

After graduating from high school, Wagenknecht joined an artillery regiment of the Reichswehr in September 1931 and was trained as an army officer.

Wehrmacht

He was accepted into the Wehrmacht Air Force and promoted to lieutenant in April 1935 . This was followed by training as a combat observer and pilot. Then he was a squadron officer in a combat squadron. He then served as a supervisory officer and adjutant at an air war school . This was followed by the employment as adjutant of the inspector of the education and training system of the air force. He was then a squadron officer and leader in a combat squadron. He was then a consultant, group leader and department head in the personnel office at the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) in Berlin. In July 1944 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Eventually he became a prisoner of war .

After the Second World War, his name appeared in the GDR Brown Book .

post war period

In the post-war period he worked in the civil service as a senior government councilor.

armed forces

In 1956 he joined the Bundeswehr . He was a department head in a military area command. As a colonel , he was the commander of a MAD group around 1960 . After that, Colonel i. G. Adviser to the headquarters of the armed forces . Wagenknecht was an adjutant to the Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (CSU) and Kai-Uwe von Hassel (CDU) from 1962 to 1964 .

From 1963 to 1967 he was the commander of the Air Force Officer's School (OSLw) in Neubiberg . In 1967 the Brigadier General became head of sub-division P IV (Army) in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn. In 1969, as major general, he was in command of the Military District Command (WBK) III in Düsseldorf and from 1969 to 1972 Commander of the Military District Command (WBK) VI in Munich. In 1972 he retired.

family

Wagenknecht, a Protestant, was married and the father of two children.

Awards

• War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords (1945)
• Bavarian Order of Merit

literature

• Federal Ministry of Defense (Ed.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr . Wehr & Wissen, Bonn u. a. 1972, no p.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert Podewin (Ed.): Brown book: War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic . 3rd edition, Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968, p. 308.
2. ↑ Professional: Willi Wagenknecht . In: Der Spiegel , 39/1963, September 25, 1963, p. 108.
3. ↑ Military District Command III, Introduction, BArch BH 28-3.
4. ↑ Military District Command VI, Introduction, BArch BH 28-6.