Carl Britt

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Carl Britt
Carl Britt I.jpg
Obituary (Veterans Association)
Birth name Carl Friedrich August Britt[1]
Birth date 26 March 1876
Place of birth Elberfeld, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 20 November 1963 (aged 87)
Place of death Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Rank Captain of the Reserves
Battles/wars World War I
Awards Iron Cross
House Order of Hohenzollern
Relations ∞ Henny Morgenroth
Other work Insurance general director

Carl Friedrich August Britt (26 March 1876 – 20 November 1963) was a German reserve officer, WWI veteran and an internationally active insurance manager.

Life

After his Abitur, Carl Britt started his studies at university. He completed his mandatory military service as a one-year volunteer (Einjährig-Freiwilliger) from 1897 to 1898 in the 1. Westfälisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 7. He was dismissed into the reserves and was promoted to 2nd, then 1st Lieutenant.

WWI

Reactivated for WWI, he served with the Düsseldorf Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 39 (28th Reserve Infantry Brigade/13th Reserve Division/VII Reserve Corps/2nd Army) under Lieutenant Colonel Otto Eben[2] at the Western Front as of 25 August 1914. He was appointed battalion adjutant and later company commander. After his promotion to Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of the Reserves), he was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion, which he led during the storming of Verdun in February 1916.

He then served as regimental adjutant and was appointed to commander of the 3rd Battalion in 1917 with which he remained particularly connected until his death. In 1918, he led the battle for the Kemmel in Flanders. He personally led the first wave of the attacking battalion and remained with the troops after a shrapnel bullet hit him.

Post-WWI

After the war, he returned to the insurance business. He joined the German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei; DVP) and was member of the of the umbrella organization for war veterans' and reservists' associations "Kyffhäuserbund" (English: Kyffhäuser League). He was general director of the Vaterländische und Rhenania Vereinigte insurance companies (General-Direktor der „Vaterländische“ und „Rhenania“ Vereinigte Versicherungsgesellschaften, Aktien-Gesellschaft) in Elberfeld and board member (Vorstand) of Unitas Rückversicherungs-AG and Vaterländische Kreditversicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin. In September 1928, he belonged to the guests of honour of the Negotiations of the VIIth General German Bankers' Day in Cologne on the Rhine.[3]

He was often abroad for work, especially in England. During the Third Reich, he was member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) as well as the NS-Reichskriegerbund, but never a member of the NSDAP. He traveled abroad on behalf of his insurance company until 1944, as his denazification file shows. After WWII, he was an independent reinsurer (Carl Britt GmbH).

Family

Carl Britt was married to Henriette "Henny" Morgenroth (1 June 1878 – 8 October 1964), also from Elberfeld, their daughter Ellen was born on 26 April 1906. Ellen married lord of the manor (Poppelvitz, Rügen) Paul Holst (1900–1972) on 3 June 1929, with whom she would have three children. Paul was imprisoned after the Second World War for employing foreign workers, most recently in Bautzen, and finally released to Wuppertal, where his wife and family was waiting. Since 1954, after additionla schooling, he has been an expert for insurance claims in agriculture.

Gallery

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Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ (8411) Entnazifizierung Carl Britt , geb. 26.03.1876 (Versicherungsdirektor)
  2. ↑ Otto Ferdinand Eben was later promoted to Colonel and appointed commander of the 6. Infanterie-Brigade in 1918, the regiment was taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Theodor Wilhelm Schniewindt (1868–1938). Colonel Eben fell severly ill at the Eastern Front and died on 23 July 1918 in military hospital. His son Hubert Eben (1895–1967), later Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserves of the Wehrmacht in WWII, became lord of the manor and married Ilse Freiin von Hammerstein-Equord, daughter of Lieutenant General Günther Edmund Wilhelm Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord and niece of Generaloberst Kurt Gebhard Adolf Philipp Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord.
  3. ↑ Verhandlungen des VII. Allgemeinen Deutschen Bankiertages zu Köln am Rhein, published by the Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry, p. 382
  4. ↑ Rangliste der Königlich Preußischen Armee, 1914, p. 776
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