Wolf von Biedermann

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Franz Wolf Heinrich Hugo Freiherr von Biedermann (born July 11, 1890 in Herbesthal , † May 14, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) was a German major general in the Air Force during World War II .

Life

origin

Wolf was the son of the Prussian main tax office assistant Gotthard von Biedermann (1860-1900) and his wife Johanna, née Dumas de l´Espino (* 1863).

Military career

Biedermann came on 24 January 1911 as an ensign in the 13th Infantry Regiment. 178 of the Saxon army and was promoted by the end of March 1912 to lieutenant . After the beginning of the First World War , Biedermann acted as a company officer , platoon and company commander. At an unknown point in time, he switched to the air force , where he received training as a pilot . In this function, Biedermann, who was awarded swords in the course of the war with both classes of the Iron Cross and the Second Class Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Merit and the Order of Albrecht , worked until September 1919 until the end of the war.

On October 1, 1919, Biedermann was assigned as a company officer to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 23, in which he remained until the end of September 1920. Subsequently, on October 1, 1920, Biedermann was assigned to the staff of Group Command 2, where he received his leadership assistant training until the end of September 1921 . Then he was transferred to the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment on October 1, 1921 , where he initially served as a company officer and chief of the 2nd company until the end of September 1928 . Here Biedermann was promoted to captain on February 1, 1925 .

On September 30, 1928, Biedermann officially resigned from military service in order to then receive secret pilot training from October 1928 to May 1930, disguised as a civilian. On June 1, 1930, Biedermann was reactivated for the army and assigned to his old regular regiment, the 10th Infantry Regiment. There he served in the staff of the 1st Battalion until the end of September 1934 and most recently as a company commander. Here he was promoted to major on April 1, 1934 .

On October 1, 1934, Biedermann joined the Air Force , where he initially worked as a consultant in the Reich Aviation Ministry until the end of September 1935 . He was then appointed commander of the Stade Air Force Replacement Department and at the same time Air Base Commander of Stade , he commanded it until the end of March 1939. During this time, Biedermann was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1936 and on June 1, 1938 to colonel . He then acted from April 1939 until an unknown time in 1940 as the commander of the pilot training regiment and as the air base commander in Salzwedel .

Subsequently he was air base commander of Halberstadt until September 1942 , where Biedermann was promoted to major general on April 1, 1941 . In September 1942, Biedermann was appointed commander of the 7th Air Force Field Division, which he commanded as part of Army Group A , later Army Group Center and finally Army Group B on the Eastern Front . After the division was broken up in the spring of 1943, the division was disbanded and Biedermann joined the Führer Reserve from March to December 1943 . From January 1, 1944 to January 3, 1945 he served as the commander of the Weapons Technical School 2 in Merseburg . Then he was assigned to the head of the Wehrmacht motor vehicle department in the Wehrmacht High Command for the remainder of January 1945 . On February 1, 1945, Biedermann was kept available with Flieger Ersatz-Bataillons III, but was not given his own command until the end of the war. Biedermann was from May 8, 1945 to May 1948 in British captivity .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1926, p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Biedermann, Wolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biedermann, Franz Wolf Heinrich Hugo Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Herbesthal
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1964
Place of death Wiesbaden