Willy Langlichkeit

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Langkeit (2 from left) with tank crew (1944)
Brigadier General Willy Langkeit 1967

Willy Langkeit (born June 2, 1907 in Czukten in the Oletzko district , East Prussia ; † October 27, 1969 in Bad Bramstedt ) was a German officer , most recently a brigadier general in the Federal Border Guard .

Life

In 1924 Langkeit joined the Reichswehr . He served in the Kraftfahrabteilung 1 in Königsberg until 1934 when he switched to the armored force . From April 1934 to October 1935, Langkeit led Unterführer courses for the anti-tank troops in Military District Command I (East Prussia).

From 1935 he started as company commander of the "Allenstein" tank destroyer division and in 1938 moved to Schweinfurt as chief of the 8th company in Panzer Regiment 36 of the 4th Panzer Division . In 1941, the 36th Panzer Regiment was transferred to the 14th Panzer Division . With the Panzer Regiment 36, Langkeit took part in the Polish campaign (1939), the western campaign (1940) and the Russian campaign (from 1941). In 1943 he was flown out of the Stalingrad pocket.

On March 1, 1944, Colonel Langkeit became the commander of the "Greater Germany" tank regiment. He led the tank regiment of the Großdeutschland division during the fighting in Romania, Courland and East Prussia until October 1944. After recovering from his severe wound on October 15, 1944 during the fighting near Schaulen , he became commander of the replacement brigade "Großdeutschland" at the end of 1944. This association acted as a combat group in eastern Brandenburg between Warthe and Oder, in the Sternberg and Frankfurt (Oder) area. The combat group was refilled to a full-fledged Panzergrenadierdivision in 1945, but suffered from the then widespread shortage of fuel, ammunition, food, means of transport, spare parts and much more.

As the commander of the newly established "Kurmark" Panzer Grenadier Division , he and his troops fought between Küstrin and Frankfurt (Oder) in early 1945 . In the course of the heavy fighting in the Battle of Berlin , the Panzer Grenadier Division was pushed south into the Halbe and Märkisch-Buchholz area . There the bandage got into Halbe's cauldron . However, it was able to break out and reached the Elbe in May 1945 . Here Langkeit went as a major general with the remnants of the Panzergrenadier division into the US prisoner of war .

After his release from captivity, Langkeit worked as a car salesman and from 1951 for the Federal Border Police (BGS). At the BGS he rose to Brigadier General (1965). He lived in Schleswig-Holstein and died in Bad Bramstedt in 1969.

Promotions

Only Reichswehr and Wehrmacht

  • Sergeant June 1, 1930
  • Sergeant April 1, 1933
  • Lieutenant 1934
  • First Lieutenant 1934
  • Captain January 1, 1938
  • Major January 1, 1942
  • Lieutenant Colonel December 1, 1942
  • Colonel December 1, 1943
  • Major General April 20, 1945

Awards

Bibliography

  • Ludger Tewes : The Panzergrenadierdivision Grossdeutschland in the campaign against the Soviet Union 1942 to 1945 , Klartext Verlag Essen 2020, ISNB 978-3-8375-2089-7. P. 473 CV.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tewes, Die Panzergrenadierdivision Grossdeutschland, pp. 473 to 563, note 323.
  2. ^ Federal border police request march in . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1953 ( online - Sept. 9, 1953 ).
  3. ↑ Biography of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche and Camminetz: Des Teufels General.
  4. ↑ a b 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. 494 .
  5. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Longevity, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Brigadier General in the Federal Border Guard
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Czukten , Oletzko district
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1969
Place of death Bad Bramstedt