z. D. (military language)

Officers were in the German armed forces of the empire to the Wehrmacht for grabs , abbreviated z. D. as an addition to the rank . They retired from active service and received a pension . According to today's parlance, this corresponded to a transfer to “ temporary retirement ”. They were under the control of the Landwehr authorities and could be used again immediately in the event of mobilization , for example .

This happened particularly during the First World War . In this case the officer received his normal pay again .

A well-known example of this is the later Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg .

See also

• off-duty
• à la suite

literature

• Ulrich Herr, Jens Nguyen: The German generals as well as war ministries and general staffs from 1871 to 1914 (= catalogs of the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt. Vol. 10). Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902526-60-1 , pp. 114–118.
• Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1888