Ottenbacher, Otto Ernst

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Otto Ernst, Ottenbacher Otto-Ernst, Ottenbacher
In the photo on the right, the picture was taken in 1928
Date of Birth	November 18, 1888 ( 1888-11-18 )
Place of Birth	Esslingen am Neckar , Kingdom of Württemberg
Date of death	January 7, 1975 ( 1975-01-07 ) (86 years old)
Place of death	Stuttgart , Baden-Wurttemberg
Affiliation	German Empire Weimar Republic Third Reich
Type of army	German Ground Forces
Years of service	1907 - 1945
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commanded	36th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) Template: 36th Motorized Division (Third Reich) 41st Motorized Corps (Wehrmacht) 13th Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
Battles / wars	World War I The Second World War West European War Theater Operation Barbarossa Baltic strategic defensive operation The defense of Pskov (1941) Leningrad strategic defensive operation Kalinin defensive operation
Awards and prizes	Template: Badge For an injury of the III degree Template: Breastplate For the wounded in black 1918 Template: Order of Vyiskov Merit (Württemberg)

Otto Ernst, Ottenbacher ( German Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher ; November 18, 1888 - January 7, 1975 ) - German officer, participant in the First and Second World Wars, Lieutenant General, German commander of the Third Reich, Knight Knight cross.

Biography

Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher, the son of a banker, arrived in the 3rd Infantry Regiment Württemberg Alt-Württemberg No. 121 and enlisted on June 29, 1907 in the army of Württemberg with the rank of Fanen-junker , the rank traditionally assigned to students of the second and third courses of military schools , approximately similar in meaning to the Russian cadet. A few months later, on November 19, 1908, in the same 3rd Infantry Regiment of Württemberg Alt-Württemberg No. 121, he was promoted to lieutenant, where he served shortly before the First World War. Throughout his life he led a successful military career, by March 1941 he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General, in 1935 he married Ruth-Annelise de Keyser. In October 1941, during the second world war near Kalinin, the current city of Tver, General Ottenbacher’s communications aircraft was shot down by Soviet fighters and made an emergency landing, as a result of a fire aboard the aircraft, he received serious burns and was sent to Berlin. And from 1942 to 1944 he was responsible for the training of security forces in France, due to severe physical exhaustion he was allowed to go on vacation, later he was accused of crimes in France against civilians, but the Bordeaux Military Court in 1950 didn’t have enough evidence. set him free.

World War I

December 24, 1914 was awarded the title of Lieutenant. At that time he was appointed adjutant of the battalion in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of Württemberg Alt-Württemberg No. 121. Later, Otto Ernst became the leader and commander of the machine gun company MG, as a regimental adjutant and officer of the machine gun company, at the headquarters of the regiment, August 18, 1916 received the rank of captain. A little later, even in the General Staff he was appointed commander in chief of the XIII army corps and as an adjutant of 51 rifle brigades, he was wounded in the First World War. This was reflected in the awards, the badge “For wounding” 3 degrees (“black wound”), from one to two light wounds in total. In addition, he was awarded several other awards in addition to both Iron Crosses.

Between World Wars

After the war, some time later he was transferred to the Haas volunteer department as a captain with the preservation of the rank. Starting October 1, 1919, assigned to the 13th Reichswehr Brigade. In addition, in the spring of 1920 he participated in the reorganization and redeployment of an army of 200,000 people, after which he continued to serve in the headquarters of the 13 Reichswehr brigade as an officer in the formation of an army of 100,000 people. He was appointed head of the 1st company of the 13th (Württemberg) infantry regiment, on November 1, 1923, he was briefly transferred as an adjutant to the infantry school, and from April 1, 1924 he was the head of the 2nd and 4th for several years Infantry Regiment in Stargard. On October 1, 1928 he was transferred to the regiment of the 15th regiment for several years as captain in Paderborn, on May 1, 1929 he was promoted to major, on October 1, 1931 he was transferred to the regimental headquarters of the 17th Infantry Regiment in Braunschweig. In 1932, Otto Ernst was appointed commander of the 1st battalion of the 17th Infantry Regiment, and on October 1, 1933 he was appointed lieutenant colonel. And transferred to the commanders of the infantry regiment in the city of Glogau fortress, on October 1, 1934, the Reichswehr armies were expanded by Wehrmacht troops and Otto was awarded the rank of colonel on August 1, 1935. In October 1935 he was appointed commander of the 54th Infantry Regiment in Glogau. He retained command for several years; on December 21, 1935, he married Ruth-Annelise de Keyser. On April 1, 1938 he was appointed commander of the command of the defensive structures near Lötzen, continuing to wear the form of 54 infantry regiment. April 1, 1939 promoted to major general. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II he was appointed commander of the staff.

World War II

It was used at the beginning of World War II in the late summer of 1939 in the Polish campaign, under the 3rd Army. By the fall of 1939, its formation was dissolved, later Otto was appointed commander of the 346th infantry battalion, on June 1, 1940 he was appointed commander of division No. 177 in Vienna. He was responsible for the redistribution of troops from the military district XVII, from October 25, 1940 he was appointed commander of the 36th Infantry Division, and on March 1, 1941 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In the early summer of 1941, he led his division in the Eastern campaign to attack the north of Russia; on August 13, 1941, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. In early October 1941, he transferred command to the 36th Infantry Division, presumably during the battles near Kalinin, General Ottenbacher’s communications aircraft was shot down by Soviet fighters and made an emergency landing, as a result of a fire aboard the aircraft, he received serious burns, for several days led from the hospital of the main command of the XXXXI army corps, in mid-October 1941 he was sent for treatment to Germany, on January 14, 1942 he was under the leadership of the High Command of the XIII headquarters for about three months. At the end of April 1942 he resigned and was again transferred to the Führer reserve, on August 1, 1942 he was appointed commissar general of the military commander of France, now he was responsible for the training of security forces. In the summer of 1944, after the Allied invasion, the Ottenbacher Group led the “fight against gangs” in Dordogne and in the Central Massif. Along with the Bode combat group from the 11th Panzer Division, war crimes against civilians and the destruction of several villages occurred during the retreat. After that, he was allowed to go on vacation due to "physical exhaustion", and he did not find any sense until the end of the war. In 1950, he was brought to the Bordeaux court for war crimes, released by a military court for lack of evidence.