Karl von Oven

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Karl von Oven
Adolf Karl von Oven.jpg
Birth date 29 November 1888
Place of birth Charlottenburg near Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 20 January 1974 (aged 85)
Place of death Singen am Hohentwiel, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Freikorps Flag.jpg Freikorps
War Ensign of Germany (1921–1933).png Preliminary Reichswehr
Polizei in der Weimarer Republik.jpg Police
Balkenkreuz.jpg Heer
Years of service 1908–1945
Rank General of the Infantry
Commands held 393th Infantry Division
56th Infantry Division
XXXXIII Army Corps
Military Police Command II
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
  • Poland Campaign
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • Battle of Kiev (1941)
  • Battle of Moscow
  • Battle of Kursk
  • Battle of Narva (1944)
    • Battle for Narva Bridgehead
    • Narva Offensive (15–28 February 1944)
    • Narva Offensive (1–4 March 1944)
    • Narva Offensive (18–24 March 1944)
Awards Iron Cross
Wound Badge
Johanniter Knight
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Relations ∞ 1921 Marie Elisabeth Freiin von Lüttwitz

Adolf Karl von Oven (29 November 1888 – 20 January 1974) was a German officer, finally General of the Infantry and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in World War II.

Life

Father Karl Adolf von Oven (1855-1937)
Adolf Karl von Oven II.jpg
PERS 6 294 Karl von Oven I.jpg
PERS 6 294 Karl von Oven II.jpg

Karl was privately tutored in his first years, he then attended civic school (Bürgerschule) in Karlsruhe and Gymnasium in Berlin, Koblenz and Frankfurt an der Oder. From Easter 1903, he attended the Royal Prussian Cadet Institute in Potsdam and then, from 1904 to 1908, the Main Cadet Institute (Hauptkadettenanstalt in Groß-Lichterfelde) near Berlin where he achieved his Abitur. On 27 February 1908, he joined the 3. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß of the Garde-Korps in Berlin of the Prussian Army as an officer cadet. After attending war school, he was commissioned on 27 January 1909. For the first few years, he served as a company officer in the 10th Company of his regiment in Berlin. In 1911/12, he was transferred to the 7th Company of the regiment at the same location, maintaining the same position. A year later, he was a company officer in the 8th Company of the regiment. On 1 October 1913, he was appointed adjutant of the (III.) Fusilier Battalion/3rd Guards Regiment of Foot, succeeding 1st Lieutenant Erich von Manstein.

At the outbreak of WWI, he arrived at the front with his regiment on 10 August 1914. On 29 August 1914, he was wounded near St. Quentin. He was hit by infantry fire in the shoulder, legs, and left arm. He then spent the period from 30 August to 18 October 1914 in field and military hospitals in Wiege, Beaumont, Cologne, and Metz. He returned to his regiment on 23 October 1914.

  • 3 February 1915 Appointed adjutant of the 3rd Guards Regiment of Foot
  • 13 January 1916 Appointed leader of the 7th Company/3rd Guards Regiment of Foot
  • 19 June to 25 June 1916 Commanded to the Field Aviation Detachment 61 in Flary-le-Martel
    • 13 August to 21 August 1916 treated for enteritis in the military hospitals of Lyreu and St. Quentin
  • 22 August 1916 return to his regiment
  • 25 September to 15 October 1916 Granted leave to recuperate in Germany
  • 16 December 1916 Transferred to the "Officers of the Army" (Reserve) while retaining his uniform and assigned to the General Command of the III Army Corps for use in the General Staff service.
  • 17 May 1917 Assigned to the High Command of the 1st Army as an officer for special duties (z. b. V.)
  • 8 June 1917 Transferred to the General Staff Office of the 34th Infantry Division
  • 21 October 1917 Administratively transferred to the General Staff of the 9th Army but still serving with the 34th Infantry Division
  • 15 September 1918 Transferred to the "Officers of the Army" (Reserve) while retaining his uniform and assigned to the Army Special Purpose Department C
  • 13 and 14 November 1918 Commanded to the 3rd Guards Regiment of Foot to represent the regimental adjutant
  • 14 November 1918 Transferred to the XXXI. Army Corps
  • 28 November 1918 By order of the Minister of War transferred back to the 3rd Guards Regiment of Foot and directly assigned to the VI Army Corps.
  • 10 January 1919 Hirschberg Border Brigade (Freikorps); border control in Silesia
  • 25 February 1919 Transferred to the 9th Infantry Division
    • service with the Reichswehr Rifle Battalion 15
  • 2 November with effect from 1 November 1919 Employed with the Sicherheitspolizei in Berlin
    • appointed leader of the 2nd Company in Friedrichshain
  • June 1921 to January 1922 Appointed Chief of Operations (Ia) with the Commando "Count Poninski" (Border Guard of Upper Silesia)
    • The command ordered 36 companies to seal off the Upper Silesian plebiscite area and to protect against Polish terror.
  • 1922 Commander of the Schutzpolizei (Protection Police) in Grunewald
  • January 1923 Appointed Chief of Operations (Ia) with the Berlin Protection Police Command
  • 1 October 1924 Teacher / instructor at the Eiche police academy near Potsdam
  • August 1929 to 1 October 1932 Administrative assistant at the Bochum Grunewald Police Command, then Inspection Leader and finally Commander of the Bochum Police Inspectorate
  • 1 October 1932 Assigned to the Higher Police Commander in the West in Recklinghausen for cooperation
    • He was assigned as Chief of Operations (Ia) to this office responsible for leading the Prussian police in the demilitarized zone.
  • February 1933 Appointed Chief of Staff of the Higher Police Leader in the West
  • May 1933 Appointed Chief of Staff to the Chief of the State Police (Landespolizei) in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. He was now subordinate to Kurt Daluege.
  • 14 March with effect from 15 March 1935 Transferred to the Reichswehr for service with the Infanterie-Regiment Potsdam (Infanterie-Regiment 9)
  • 3 April with effect from 15 April 1935 Appointed commander of the II. Battalion/Infanterie-Regiment Paderborn (Infanterie-Regiment 18)
  • 23 November 1935 Newly sworn-in
  • 6 October 1936 Appointed commander of the Army Field Ordnance Administration XI
  • 18 January with effect from 1 February 1937 Appointed commander of the Infanterie-Regiment 59 in Hannover; this order was recanted.
  • 30 January with effect from 1 February 1937 Commanded to the Infanterie-Regiment 82 in Göttingen for the purpose of training as regimental commander
  • 20 April with effect from 1 May 1937 Appointed commander of the new Infanterie-Regiment 73 in Hannover
  • 12 October 1937 Appointed commander of the Infanterie-Regiment 59 in Hildesheim
  • 11 November 1939 Appointed Inspector of the Allenstein Military Replacement Inspection
  • 20 May 1940 Appointed commander of the 393. Infanterie-Division
  • 1 August 1940 Commandant of the High Field Command 393 (OFK 393) in Warsaw
  • 15 October 1940 Führerreserve (OKH)/Army High Command Leader Reserve
  • 16 November 1940 Commanded to the 56. Infanterie-Division
  • 22 November with effect from 25 November 1940 Appointed commander of the 56. Infanterie-Division as successor to Generalleutnant Paul von Hase
  • 28 January 1943 Delegated with the leadership of the XXXXIII. Army Corps
  • 1 April 1943 Appointed Commanding General of the XXXXIII. Army Corps
  • 25 March 1944 Führerreserve (OKH)/Army High Command Leader Reserve
  • 22 April 1944 Appointed commander of the Military Police Command II (Befehlshaber des Feldjäger-Kommando II); arrived at headquarters on 15 or 17 May 1944 as he still needed a three-week peat bath treatment.
    • Although it was a position on the home front (due to his health condition), he nevertheless held the position and powers of an army commander-in-chief, including disciplinary authority. He could therefore dismiss commanders up to the rank of Army Leader of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and initiate court-martial proceedings.
  • 5 February 1945 Fallen ill; Führerreserve (OKH)/Army High Command Leader Reserve; his Feldjäger-Kommando (mot.) II successor was General der Artillerie Willi Moser
    • On 25 February 1945, a medical examination determined that General von Oven, residing in Hildesheim near Hanover (Lower Saxony), could not be returned to active duty before the end of March 1945. It is assumed that he was not deployed again during the war.

Family

Karl was the son of highly decorated General Karl Adolf von Oven (1855–1937) and his wife (∞ Swinemünde 21 October 1887) Alice Karoline Ulrike, née Edle von Oetinger (1866–1942).[1] He had two siblings:

  • Gertrud (b. 17 October 1890 in Straßburg; d. 19 July 1905 in Missen)
  • Helmut (b. 27 March 1896 in Karlsruhe), 2nd Lieutenant in the First World War, later businessman in Argentina (Head of the Argentina branch of the Export Association of German Automobile Factories AG)
    • ∞ Wiesbaden 12 June 1918 Margarete "Grete" Rose Amelia Freiin Schertel von Burtenbach (b. 9 May 1899 in Hohenberg); o¦o Wiesbaden 11 June 1921 (date of the divorce decree issued by the Regional Court III in Berlin)
      • Udo Adolf Henry (b. 28 August 1919 in Wiesbaden; d. 2000 in Munich), he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Académie Rue Chaumière in Paris from 1939 to 1941. From 1941 to 1948, he served as a medical orderly in the Wehrmacht and was a prisoner of war in France and Russia. From 1948 onward, he worked as a freelance sculptor, and for the last five years of his professional life, he also worked for the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
    • ∞ Starnberg 5 September 1938 Carmen Magdalena Peuser (b. 10 December 1899 or 1901 in Buenos Aires)
      • Carmen was previously married to Kurt Wilhelm Friedrich Sebastian Schertel von Burtenbach (b. 4 November 1900 in Hohenburg) from 16 July 1924 until they divorced on 31 July 1930; they had one son: Kurt Sebastian Schertel von Burtenbach (b. 14 April 1925 in Geneva)

Marriage

in Schweidnitz, von Oven married his fiancée Marie Elisabeth Charlotte Therese Stephanie Katharina Freiin von Lüttwitz (b. 17 December 1890 in Spandau), eldest daughter of the infantry officer Lieutenant General (Ret.) Karl August Diepold Georg Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1851–1922). They would have two children:[2]

  • Ingeborg Helene Alice Gertrud (b. 15 December 1922 in Berlin)
  • Karl-Günter Adolf Georg (b. 12 February 1925 in Berlin)

Promotions

  • 27 February 1908 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 27 January 1909 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) with Patent from 14 June 1907 (112)
  • 24 December 1914 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 5 October 1916 Hauptmann (Captain)

Police

  • 2 November 1919 Hauptmann der Sicherheitspolizei with effect from 1 November 1919
  • 29 September 1923 Polizeimajor (Major of the Police)
  • 21 March 1933 Polizeioberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel of the Police) with effect from 1 April 1933
  • 14 September 1933 Oberst der Landespolizei (Colonel of the State Police) with effect from 1 September 1933

Wehrmacht

  • 15 March 1935 Oberstleutnant with Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 January 1934 (3a)
  • 1 October 1935 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 31 May 1939 Generalmajor (Major General) with effect and RDA from 1 June 1939 (11)
  • 14 June 1941 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General) with effect and RDA from 1 July 1941 (2)
  • 10 March 1943 General der Infanterie (General of the Infantry) with effect and RDA from 1 April 1943 (1)

Awards and decorations

Sources

  • German Federal Archives: BArch PERS 6/294 and PERS 6/300324

External links

References

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser, 1917, pp. 648 f.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Teil B, 1940, p. 460
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