Wolf von Zawadzky

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Carl Wolf-Dietrich von Zawadzky (born November 3, 1907 in Krotoschin , † October 27, 2000 in Bonn ) was a German Brigadier General in the Bundeswehr and President of Johanniter Accident Aid .

Life

Wolf von Zawadzky was the son of the marriage of Harry-Eberhard von Zawadzky and his wife Edith. The half-orphan, his father died in 1914 as a captain in the First World War, joined the Reichswehr in 1926 after graduating from high school and started a career as an officer. From 1936 to 1938 he was at the then highest military educational institution Military Academy operates in Berlin, then as a captain in the general staff . In 1939 he took part in the 46th Infantry Division in the Poland campaign from September 1939 to May 1940. From 1941 to 1943 he was a major in the General Staff in the Army High Command (OKH) , in particular for the Department of the Commander in Chief of the Replacement Army (BdE) . In 1943 he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the 170th Infantry Division and in 1944 he was appointed colonel in the General Staff in the General Army Office of the OKH.

After the end of the war he was initially a commercial clerk in Schleswig-Holstein and Cologne. He later entered the civil service, in the so-called Amt Blank , and was a sub-department head in the Ministry of Defense (1954–1956) and military advisor to the German NATO ambassador in Paris (1957–1961). He then held the rank of brigadier general until his retirement in 1966 as Chief of Staff at the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT) .

From 1966 to 1976 Wolf von Zawadzky took over the general management of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe. From 1976 to 1980 he was president of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe. He was the initiator of "Meals on Wheels" and "Emergency Pastoral Care".

From Zawadzky was recorded in 1967 as an honorary knight in the Order of St. John and 1972. Legal Knight of the Order of St. John defeated. In 1966 he was awarded the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Wolf von Zawadzky was married to Ingeborg-Yvonne; there are two daughters from the marriage.

Fonts

  • with Gerhard von Jordan: Help the weak. 35 years of service to others. Burg Verlag, Stuttgart / Bonn 1989, ISBN 978-3-922-80118-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d "Carl Wolf-Dietrich von Zawadzky: Restless Retirees for Social Services" , Order of St. John , accessed on September 22, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Leszek Moczulski , Zbigniew Szumowski, Jerzy Wadowski: "Remilitaryzacja Niemieckiej Republiki Federalnej: 1945-1962", Zachodnia Agencja Prasowa, 1965, p. 505
  3. ↑ a b "Light gray like the air raid" , Spiegel dated July 6, 1955, accessed on September 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Zawadzky, Wolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zawadzky, Carl Wolf-Dietrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr and President of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Krotoschin
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2000
Place of death Bonn