Date of birth:

March 30th, 1904 (Nikolaiken, Mikołajki, Poland)

Date of death:

1975 (Pretoria, South Africa)

Nationality:

German

Promotions:
01.12.1926: Leutnant
01.02.1930: Oberleutnant
01.04.1935: Hauptmann
01.08.1940: Major i.G. (46) - 01.01.1940 (70b)
Oberstleutnant i.G.
01.02.1943: Oberst i.G. (81)

Career:
00.11.1923-30.09.1934: Reiter-Regiment 5 in Stolp, Słupsk, Poland
01.10.1934-15.10.1935: Schwadron-Chef - Schützen-Rgt. 1 (Gera)
15.10.1935-31.07.1937: Kriegsakademie Berlin
01.08.1937-15.10.1939: Ic - 8. Armee-Korps
15.10.1939-06.05.1940: Ia - 86. Infanterie-Division
06.05.1940-20.01.1941: Abteilung „Heerwesen" / Amtsgruppe Ersatz- u. Heerwesen (Ag EH) / OKH
20.01.1941-22.11.1942: Ia - 3. Infanterie-Division (mot), replaced by Major i.G. Hans-Helmut von KIRCHBACH auf LAUTERBACH (08.11.1911 Freiberg - 17.02.1943 Krasnoarmyeysk), the division's Ib
11.1942: flown in the Stalingrad's "Cauldron" and sent to the XIV. Panzer-Korps' HQ, where he was attached to the Ia Abteilung
13.01.1943-19.01.1943: possibly the corps' last Ia after Oberstleutnant i.G. Walther MÜLLER was appointed its last Chef des Generalstabes
19.01.1943: flown out of the Stalingrad pocket by order on 19.01.1943
20.01.1943: landed in Novotchierkassk
21.01.1943-28.02.1943: Ia/F Heeresgruppe „Don"
01.03.1943-12.02.1944: Lehrer - Kriegsakademie Berlin
12.02.1944- 06.03.1945: Chef des Stabes - LVIII. Pz.Korps
07.03.1945-10.03.1945: mit der stellvertretenden Führung der 9. Panzer-Division
1949: acted as defense witness during the trial of Erich von MANSTEIN in Hamburg
Worked for the Organisation Gehlen. Then in the BND.
He got into a serious conflict with Reinhard GEHLEN and was posted abroad, as the BND station chief in South Africa. Remained there after retirement.

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