Wolfgang Pickert

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Wolfgang Pickert (born February 3, 1897 in Posen , † July 19, 1984 in Weinheim ) was an officer , most recently a general of the flak cartillery of the German Air Force in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Pickert was the son of a Protestant pastor. With the outbreak of the First World War on August 2, 1914, he joined the 1st Masurian Field Artillery Regiment No. 73 as a volunteer , where he initially remained until January 3, 1916. On January 4, 1916, he was transferred as a non-commissioned officer to Field Artillery Regiment No. 93 , where he served as a reserve officer candidate until December 17, 1916. From March to April 20, 1916 he attended the Jüterbog field artillery school and then returned to his regiment, where he was an observation officer with the staff of the II. Department from December 18, 1916 to the end of August 1917 and from May 27 to June 19 1917 served as an orderly officer in the regimental staff. On September 1, 1917, he became Adjutant of Division II, and on June 22, 1918, he returned to Field Artillery Regiment No. 73 as a battery officer. Here he stayed after the end of the war , returned to the garrison in Allenstein and, after the demobilization and dissolution of his regiment, was taken over into the provisional Reichswehr .

In July 1919 initially assigned to the Reichswehr Field Artillery Regiment 1, Pickert came to the Artillery Regiment 1 on November 15, 1920 , where he served as a battery officer and department adjutant . In October 1924 Pickert began training as a leader's assistant with the staff of the 1st Division , which he completed at the end of September 1926. Then he returned to the 1st (Prussian) Artillery Regiment and was appointed to the regimental staff there. On February 1, 1931, he became battery boss and remained so until the end of September 1934. He then worked as a teacher at the anti-aircraft gun school in Döberitz and later in Wustrow / Rerik .

On October 1, 1935, Pickert joined the Air Force , where he was initially employed until the end of September 1937 as a consultant for the inspection of the anti-aircraft cartillery in the Reich Ministry of Aviation (RLM). On October 1, 1937, he was appointed department commander in Flak Regiment 49. On July 1, 1938, he was Chief of Staff of Luftgau Command XIII in Nuremberg . From there he moved to the staff of Air Defense Command 4 in Düsseldorf on October 25, 1939 . From May 15, 1940, Pickert served as Chief of the General Staff of the I. Flak Corps until September 30, 1940 . On October 1, 1940, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force Commander-in-Chief. He then became commander of the 9th Flak Division on June 25, 1942 . This was smashed in the Battle of Stalingrad , where it was used, among other things, at the Pitomnik airfield . On January 15, 1943, Pickert was flown out of Stalingrad to present a situation report, but was unable to return to his division the following day due to the geological situation.

After his division was broken up, Pickert was given the task of setting up a new 9th Flak Division, which he then led from the Kuban bridgehead across the Crimea to Romania . On May 27, 1944 he handed over the division command to Adolf Pirmann and on May 28, 1944 he became the commanding general of the III. Flak Corps , which he led on the Western Front until March 19, 1945. On March 20, 1945 Pickert was appointed General of the Flakwaffe at the Commander in Chief of the Air Force in the OKL . On May 8, 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US and was released in early January 1948.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945. The military careers of the aviator, anti-aircraft cartillery, paratrooper, air intelligence and engineer officers, including doctors, judges, intendants and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 3: Odebrecht-Zoch. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 . Pp. 34-35.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Stumpf: The Wehrmacht Elite. Rank and origin structure of the German generals and admirals 1933–1945. Harald Boldt Verlag. Boppard am Rhein 1982. ISBN 3-7646-1815-9 . P. 264.
  2. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1930. p. 184.
  3. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 594.
personal data
SURNAME Pickert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently General of the Air Force anti-aircraft cartillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1984
Place of death Weinheim