Albrecht Schubert

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Albrecht Schubert
Albrecht Ernst Eduard Max Otto Hermann Schubert.jpg
Birth name Albrecht Ernst Eduard Max Otto Hermann Schubert
Birth date 23 June 1886(1886-06-23)
Place of birth Glatz, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 26 November 1966 (aged 80)
Place of death Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, 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 Reichswehr
Balkenkreuz.jpg Heer
Years of service 1904–1945
Rank General of the Infantry
Commands held 44th Infantry Division
XXIII Army Corps
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
House Order of Hohenzollern
German Cross in Gold
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Relations ∞ 1913 Käthe Zimmer

Albrecht Ernst Eduard Max Otto Hermann Schubert (23 June 1886 – 26 November 1966) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Freikorps, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, finally General der Panzertruppe and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in World War II.

Life

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General Albrecht Schubert II.jpg

After attending pre-school and Gymnasiums in Straßburg as well as Frankfurt an der Oder, Albrecht Schubert attended the Royal Prussian Cadet School in Potsdam from Easter 1899 to Easter 1900 and the Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute (Hauptkadettenanstalt in Groß-Lichterfelde) near Berlin until February 1904 and achieved his Abitur. On 27 February 1904, he was transferred to the Infanterie-Regiment „Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen“ (2. Magdeburgisches) Nr. 27. On 21 March 1904, he was sworn-in. Afterwards, he was commanded to the war school in Potsdam. He was commissioned in January 1905.

  • 19 December 1907 Transferred to the 6th Company/Grenadier-Regiment "König Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1. Schlesisches) Nr. 10 in Schweidnitz
    • 29 November to 18 December 1909 Commanded to the rifle factory in Danzig
    • 8 June to 5 July 1911 Commanded to the Schlesisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 6 in Neiße
  • 1 December 1911 to 16 September 1913 Adjutant of the III. (Fusilier) Battalion/Grenadier-Regiment "König Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1. Schlesisches) Nr. 10
  • 17 September 1913 to 8 August 1914 Adjutant of the District Command Glatz
  • 1914 to 1918 World War I
    • Adjutant of the mixed 21st Reserve Brigade, as orderly officer of the 4th Landwehr Division, as leader of the I. Battalion/Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 11, as staff officer in the General Command of the Landwehr Corps and as company leader again in the 4th Landwehr Division.
    • 4 August to 3 September 1917 Commanded to the General Staff Course in Sedan.
    • 7 September 1917 Transferred to the General Staff of the V. Armee-Korps
    • 6 to 10 November 1917 Commanded to the Army Signals School
    • 20 November 1917 Transferred to the 111th Infantry Division
    • 19 February 1918 Transferred to the 202nd Infantry Division
    • 7 November 1918 Transferred back to the Grenadier-Regiment "König Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1. Schlesisches) Nr. 10 and placed at disposal of the 28th Reserve Division as a battalion commander
  • 25 December 1918 Transferred to the General Staff of the Army and placed at disposal of the XVI. Armee-Korps
  • 27 September 1919 General Staff Officer at Military District Command II
  • 13 October 1919 to 1 April 1920 Commanded to the Border Guard West Prussia (Freikorps)
  • 1 October 1920 General Staff Officer in the Staff of the 2nd Division of the Reichswehr
  • 1 October 1921 Assigned as a general staff officer at the staff of Group Command 2 in Kassel.
  • 20 December 1922 with effect from 1 January 1923 Transferred to the 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment
    • There he was assigned to the staff of the III. Battalion in Görlitz.
  • 29 April 1924 Appointed commander of the 10th Company/8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Görlitz
  • 14 September with effect from 1 October 1926 Transferred to the staff of the 2nd Division of the Reichswehr in Stettin
    • There he served for four years as an instructor in the training of commander's assistants but was also commanded to several courses (artillery as well as heavy infantry weapons in Jüterbog, air defense, gas protection in Berlin, physical exercises in Wünsdorf and so on) and military district training trips.
  • 12 September with effect from 1 October 1930 Transferred to the 12th Infantry Regiment in Dessau but still serving with the 2nd Division
  • 19 March with effect from 1 April 1931 Appointed commander of the 1st Battalion of the 12th Infantry Regiment in Dessau
  • 1 October 1932 Transferred to the 12. (Sächsisches) Reiter-Regiment in Dresden and again assigned to the staff of Group Command 2 in Kassel
  • 4 November with effect from 1 December 1932 Transferred to the staff of Group Command 2 in Kassel
  • 30 January with effect from 1 February 1934 Appointed commander of the 12. Infanterie-Regiment in Halberstadt until 30 September 1936
    • 1 October 1934 renamed Infanterie-Regiment Halberstadt
    • 15 October 1935 renamed Infanterie-Regiment 12
  • 6 October 1936 Appointed commander of the 12th Infantry Division in Schwerin
  • 25 March with effect from 1 April 1938 Appointed commander of the 44th Infantry Division in Vienna

WWII

  • He led the 44th Infantry Division into the Polish campaign in the summer of 1939.[1]
  • 26 October with effect from 20 October 1939 Appointed Commanding General of the XXIII. Armee-Korps
    • At that time, the unit was in secure positions on the Western Front. In the spring of 1940, he led this general command in the Western Campaign. After the Battle of France, he and his corps were deployed as occupation troops in northern France and the Netherlands. At the end of spring 1941, he and his staff moved to East Prussia. At the beginning of summer 1941, he led his XXIII Army Corps in the Eastern Campaign during the attack on northern Russia. In the summer of 1941, after the breakthrough of the Stalin Line, he and his corps transferred to Army Group Center. Apparently, for one week (25 May to 2 June 1942), he was also entrusted with the deputy command of the 9th Army in place of the wounded Generaloberst Walter Model (Otto Schellert took over Schubert's corps for this time). This leadership then passed to General of the Infantry Heinrich Gottfried Otto Richard von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel.
  • 12 August with effect from 25 July 1942 Führerreserve OKH
  • 20 April with effect from 1 March 1943 Appointed Commanding General of the Deputy General Command XI Army Corps and Commander in Military District XI in Hannover (succeeding Wolfgang Muff)
  • 21 August 1943 Führerreserve OKH and commanded to the staff of the Deputy General Command XVII Army Corps
  • 1 September 1943 Appointed Commanding General of the Deputy General Command XVII Army Corps and Commander in Military District XVII in Vienna
  • 9 May to 1 June 1945 According to his own statement, after the capitulation on 8 May 1945 in the Mauerkirchen discharge camp, he was given command of the 6th Army. On 30 May and 1 June 1945, Schubert awarded five Knight's Crosses based on earlier nominations and announced promotions to members of the 1st Mountain Division: Eisgruber, Göller, Groth, Starl, and Vögtle.
    • The discharge camp in Mauerkirchen in 1945: Towards the end of the Second World War, in April 1945, the fully motorized (re-established) 6th German Army was stationed in Styria and Upper Austria. Its commander, General Hermann Balck, led over 30,000 men into American captivity. Immediately after the collapse of the German resistance, a large part of the 6th German Army was concentrated in the Mauerkirchen-Uttendorf area to form a huge discharge camp. The demolition of the two bridges over the Inn in Braunau (1 and 2 May 1945) severely detrimental to the surrounding area. The Allies had originally planned to establish a discharge camp in Regensburg and Rosenheim, respectively. However, due to transport difficulties, Mauerkirchen was chosen for this purpose. Members of the SS were forced to march on foot to a separate camp in Altheim. On 10 May 1945, the commander of the troops in the American occupation zone, General Harry John Collins, arrived in Mauerkirchen. In a speech broadcast over the camp's loudspeaker, he assured the camp inmates that they would be released as soon as enough paper could be found to print the release certificates. However, he had to admit that the administration was unable to provide food for the thousands of prisoners. The Germans were starving.

Family

Descent

Albrecht was the son of Major (ret.) Paul Schubert (d. 6 November 1920 in Schweidnitz), once Platzmajor in Strasbourg à la suite of the 1. Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 132, and his wife (∞ 1883) Olga Thekla, née Freiin von Reißwitz und Kadersin (b. 20 May 1860 in Troppau), half-orphan and adopted daughter (since 1870) of her maternal great-uncle Eduard Benjamin Wilhelm Maximilian Freiherr von Reißwitz und Kadersin (1809–1898).[2]

Marriage

On 21 June 1913 in Schweidnitz, 1st Lieutenant Schubert married his fiancée Käthe Zimmer (b. 12 January 1892), daughter of Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Artur Zimmer, a member of the German Officers' Association (DOB). They would have three children:

  • Klaus (b. 6 June 1914 in in Glatz; d. 1994), officer candidate of the Reichswehr and officer of the Wehrmacht, commissioned of 1 April 1936, adjutant of the Artillerie-Regiment 14, promoted to Major i. G. on 1 August 1943, 15 December 1944 to May 1945 Chief of Operations (Ia) in the General Staff of the XXI. Gebirgs-Armeekorps
    • after the war, officer of the Bundeswehr, finally Major General (two-star general); 1 April 1963 to 30 September 1966 commander of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 5, 1 October 1966 to 31 March 1970 commander of the 1. Panzergrenadierdivision (succeeded by Generalmajor Horst Hildebrandt) and 1 April 1970 to 30 September 1974 commander in the Hanoverian Defense District II.
  • Renate (b. 5 March 1917 in in Glatz)
  • Barbara (b. 17 April 1919 in in Glatz)

Promotions

  • 27 February 1904 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 27 January 1905 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) with Patent from 23 June 1903
  • 19 June 1912 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 28 November 1914 Hauptmann (Captain)
  • 1 February 1926 Major
  • 1 February 1931 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 1 April 1933 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 20 April 1936 Generalmajor (Major General) with effect and RDA (Rank Seniority) from 1 April 1936
  • 28 February 1938 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General) with effect and RDA (Rank Seniority) from 1 March 1938
  • 17 May 1940 General der Infanterie (General of the Infantry) with effect and RDA (Rank Seniority) from 1 June 1940

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Schubert, Albrecht
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1902, p. 586
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