Date of birth:

May 7th, 1918 (Berlin-Charlottenburg/Brandenburg, Germany)

Date of death:

October 14th, 2001 (Frankfurt am Main/Hesse, Germany)

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Promotions:
?: Leutnant;
?: Oberleutnant;
?: Hauptmann;
January 1945: Major (as from November 9th, 1944, RDA: February 1st, 1944).

Career:
1937: Artillerie-Regiment 28;
February 6th, 1940: Artillerie-Regiment 298;
?: leichte Artillerie-Abteilung 28;
?: Führerreserve OKH;
?: Adjutant Wach-und Begleit-Bataillon Adolf Hitler;
?: Batteriechef, leichte Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 935;
July 28th, 1943: Führer, leichte Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 935.

On 1 August 1944 Fellgiebel was arrested by the Gestapo as a suspect in the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. He was released for lack of evidence, but re-arrested in February 1945. Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner personally interceded and restored Fellgiebel's rank to Major and assigned him as commander of Artillerie-Abteilung 935.
Was for a long time Präsidiumsmitglied und Vorsitzender der Ordenskommission der Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger des Eisernen Kreuzes e.V(OdR).

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• Photo 1: Norbert Beyerlein
• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
  - Kurowski, Franz: Deutsche Offiziere in Staat, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. 1967