Viktor von Drabich-Waechter

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Viktor von Drabich-Waechter
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Birth date 18 August 1889(1889-08-18)
Place of birth Straßburg, Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Death date ⚔ 2 August 1944 (aged 54)
Place of death Near Le Mesnil-Robert, Normandy, French State
Resting place La Cambe German war cemetery (Plot 30, Row 4, Grave 156)
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
Rank Colonel
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
War Merit Cross (1939)
Relations ∞ 1921 Ilse von Rohrscheidt

Viktor Paul Konrad Gustav Louis [Ludwig] von Drabich-Waechter (18 August 1889 – 2 August 1944) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, finally Lieutenant General in World War II.

Military career (chronology)

  • 12 March 1910 Joined the 4th Company of the Grenadier-Regiment „König Wilhelm I.“ (2. Westpreußisches) Nr. 7 in Liegnitz
  • 21 March 1910 Sworn-in
  • 8 October 1910 bis 1 July 1911 Attended the Royal Prussian War School in Engers
  • 22 August 1914 Leader of the 12th Company/Grenadier-Regiment „König Wilhelm I.“ (2. Westpreußisches) Nr. 7
  • 18 October 1914 Wounded, military hospital
  • 19 November 1914 Replacement Battalion/Grenadier-Regiment „König Wilhelm I.“ (2. Westpreußisches) Nr. 7
  • 22 December 1914 Return to the regiment in the field
  • 30 December 1914 Adjutant of the Grenadier-Regiment „König Wilhelm I.“ (2. Westpreußisches) Nr. 7
  • 19 December 1916 Adjutant of the 18. Infanterie-Brigade
  • 31 August 1918 Leader of the 1st Company/Grenadier-Regiment „König Wilhelm I.“ (2. Westpreußisches) Nr. 7
    • After the armistice of Compiègne, the regiment returned to the garrison in Liegnitz, where the unit was demobilized on 19 December 1918. Parts of the regiment were used to form the 7th Volunteer Grenadier Regiment ("Blücher") with two battalions and a machine gun and machine gun company. The Freikorps belonged to the "Silesia" Volunteer Corps and was initially deployed near Oels, and from March 1919 in the Neisse border protection sector. With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr, the troops were incorporated into the 57th Reichswehr Rifle Regiment.
  • 15 June 1919 Commanded to the Army Department of the Prussian War Ministry
  • 20 September 1919 Commander of the 1st Company/57th Reichswehr Rifle Regiment
  • 20 February 1920 Commander of the 1st Company/12th Reichswehr Rifle Regiment
  • 1 June 1920 Adjutant of the 12th Reichswehr Rifle Regiment
  • 1 January 1921 In the staff of the training battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment (Schweidnitz)
  • 1 October 1921 In the staff of the 7th Infantry Regiment (Schweidnitz)
  • 13 January 1922 Adjutant of the 7th Infantry Regiment (Schweidnitz)
  • 1 February 1925 Commander of the 7th Company/8th Infantry Regiment (Liegnitz)
  • 1 February 1930 Adjutant of the Infantry Commander II (Schwerin)
  • 1 February 1933 Commander of the 1st Eskadron/Cavalry Regiment 12 (Grimma)
  • 1 April 1933 Referent in the Army Personnel Department 1 of the Army Personnel Office (Berlin)
  • 1 April 1939 Head of the Army Personnel Department 1 of the Army Personnel Office HPA (Berlin)
  • 1 October 1940 Head of Office Group P1 of the Army Personnel Office
  • 1 October 1942 Führerreserve OKH (HPA)
  • 18 January to 12 February 1943 Commanded to the 1st Division Commander Course
  • 15 March 1943 Commanded to the 7th Army in the west on the Atlantic coast for the purpose of training as a division commander
  • 1 June 1943 Appointed commander of the 326th Infantry Division with headquarters in Narbonne

Death

Family

Viktor was the grandson of Colonel Viktor Ludwig Paul Drabich, as of 4 August 1860 von Drabich-Waechter, as well as son of Lieutenant General Paul Friedrich Wilhelm von Drabich-Waechter, Knight of Honour Johanniter-Orden since 27 February 1911, and his wife (∞ 6 October 1888) Martha Luise, née von Studt (1869–1926), daughter of Real Privy Councilor and Exzellenz Dr. h. c. mult. Konrad Heinrich Gustav von Studt (1838–1921), veteran of the wars of 1864 (Dano-German War), of 1866 and of 1870/71 as reserve officer. Viktor had two younger brothers:[2]

  • Günther Paul Konrad Hans Rudolf (1892–1966), Colonel of the Wehrmacht
  • Adolf Friedrich Paul Konrad (b. 27 September 1907 in Neustrelitz), Colonel in General Staff (i. G.) of the Wehrmacht, Chief of the General Staff of the XXXXII Army Corps, German Cross in Gold (awarded on 31 January 1944), missing in action on January 1945, actually POW, murdered by the Russians (another source states died of wounds) at the Sandomierz-Baranów bridgehead on the western bank of the Vistula on 29 January or 23 February 1945. Another source, however, reports that he was KIA in close combat on 18 January 1945,[3] still another reports, he was shot together with General of the Infantry Hermann Adolf Wilhelm Philipp Recknagel by partisans between Petrikau and Tomaszów Mazowiecki on 23 January 1945.
    • ∞ Schmerwitz 29 December 1933 Christfriede Brandt von Lindau; son Hubertus (b. 15 May 1936)

Marriage

On 4 August 1921 in Brieg near Breslau, Captain von Drabich-Waechter married his fiancée Ilse Sophie Luise Eva Alice von Rohrscheidt (1896–1928), daughter of lord of the manor (Estate Deutsch Steine near Ohlau) and Rittmeister of the Landwehr Max Friedrich Wilhelm von Rohrscheidt (1854–1919). Her oldest brother Werner Friedrich Wilhelm von Rohrscheidt was a Rittmeister in WWI and a Major of the Reserves of the Luftwaffe in WWII. Major von Rohrscheidt became a POW in the Soviet hunger and torture camp Breslau-Hundsfeld where he died under unknown conditions on 30 August 1945. Ilse died young on 19 January 1928 in Goerbersdorf only eight and a half months after the birth of her daughter.

Children

Promotions

  • 12 March 1910 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
  • 6 June 1910 Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter (Officer Candidate with Lance Corporal rank)
  • 7 July 1910 Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (Officer Candidate with Corporal/NCO/Junior Sergeant rank)
  • 20 December 1910 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 18 August 1911 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) with Patent from 20 August 1909
  • 18 August 1915 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 20 September 1918 Hauptmann (Captain)
    • 1 February 1922 received new Rank Seniority (RDA) from 20 September 1918
  • 1 February 1932 Major
  • 1 October 1934 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 1 April 1937 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 1 August 1940 Generalmajor (Major General)
  • 1 August 1942 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General)

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Viktor attended the Gymnasiums in Hannover, Liegnitz, Charlottenburg and finally Neustrelitz.
  2. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser, 1913, p. 182
  3. ↑ Hans von Ahlfen: Der Kampf um Schlesien 1944/1945, Stuttgart 1977, p. 57
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Teil B, 1939, p. 122
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