Wolf Graf von Luckner

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Wolf Alexander Wilhelm Hermann Graf von Luckner (born January 9, 1896 in Friedeberg , † November 13, 1971 in Höxter ) was a German artillery officer, most recently Major General of the Wehrmacht .

career

Graf Luckner joined on 10 August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War , as a lieutenant in the Westphalian Foot Artillery Regiment. 7 a, in which he served throughout the course of the war, most recently in 1917 as regimental adjutant. On October 1, 1919, he was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr , first in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 7, then employed in the formation of the Reichswehr in the 6th (Prussian) Artillery Regiment, where he was promoted to captain on April 1, 1929 was appointed chief of the 5th battery. On April 1, 1934 he became chief of the 11th (mounted) battery of the 5th Artillery Regiment stationed in Fritzlar . With this battery he came to the newly established Fulda Artillery Regiment on October 1, 1934, which was renamed Artillery Regiment 9 on October 15, 1935. Luckner, promoted to major on August 1, 1935 , was appointed commander of the 1st Division of Artillery Regiment 48 on October 1, 1936, which in 1939 was subordinated to Artillery Regiment 12 as a heavy division. On April 1, 1938 Luckner was promoted to lieutenant colonel .

In the course of mobilization for the Second World War , Luckner became commander of the 175th Artillery Regiment on August 26, 1939, which was part of the 75th Infantry Division and the 1st Army in Saarland and the Palatinate, and only on June 14, 1940 did the Maginot- Line between Saarbrücken and Saint-Avold attacked. His regiment was transferred to Poland with the entire 75th Infantry Division in mid-July 1940 and took part in the attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 . A few months earlier, on April 1, 1941, Luckner had been promoted to colonel .

On January 12, 1942, Luckner was transferred to the staff of Army Group South as “staff officer of the artillery” ; in their division and renamed in July 1942, he remained in the same service position in the Army Group B . On May 6, 1943 he became artillery commander (Arko 189) at the LXXXIX. Army Corps in Belgium . On January 10, 1944, he was transferred to the Führerreserve . Luckner was promoted to major general on April 1, 1944, and on August 1, 1944, he was appointed commander of the “School III for flag junior artillery” in Suippes - Mourmelon (France).

From January to mid-February 1945 he was Higher Artillery Commander (HArko) of the Army Coast Army Command North, then until the end of the war HArko in the 20th Mountain Army in Norway . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British in Oslo , from which he was released on May 17, 1948.

Since 1922 he was married to Carola von Neumann (1900–1981), with whom he had the two children Achim (1923–2000) and Karola (1928–2006).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Occupation of positions in the new army from May 16, 1920 valid for the peace relationship. Book II. Reichsdruckerei . Berlin 1920. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1929. p. 75.
  3. ↑ The Artillery School III, previously stationed in Thorn , was relocated to the Suippes-Mourmelon military training area near Mourmelon-le-Grand on March 11, 1943 and renamed School III for Artillery Squadrons on April 28, 1943.
  4. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1925. p. 175.
personal data
SURNAME Luckner, Wolf Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckner, Wolf Alexander Wilhelm Hermann Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artillery officer, major general of the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedeberg (Neumark)
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1971
Place of death Höxter