Wolfgang Glaesemer

Wolfgang Glaesemer (born March 14, 1899 in Riemberg , † April 10, 1999 in Lenggries ) was a German colonel in World War II .

Military career

On July 20, 1944 , Colonel Wolfgang Glaesemer, at the time the commander of Panzer Troop School II in Krampnitz , received an order from the insurgents to move into the city of Berlin with his tanks . He should report himself to Bendlerstrasse to receive further instructions. After Friedrich Olbricht had tried in vain to get him to participate in the putsch, he had him arrested. Glaesemer instructed his orderly officer , who was not under arrest, to inform the General Inspection of Armored Forces in Berlin that only orders from the General Inspection should be obeyed.

Although several tanks were already standing at the victory column , the insurgents had no access to them. Glaesemer escaped by pretending to obey the orders of Friedrich Olbricht and to take command of his armored forces.

On August 16, 1943 Glaesemer received the command of the 7th Panzer Division from Hans Freiherr von Funck , until Major General Hasso von Manteuffel arrived on August 20, 1943. The second time he was in command of the 7th Panzer Division from 28 to 30 January 1944. In 1943 he was commander of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Regiment . In this position Glaesemer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on February 12, 1943 . He had already received the German Cross in Gold on February 21 .

literature

• William L. Shirer: Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Pp. 965-974. ( Excerpt )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Veit Scherzer : 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 , p. 336.