Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

Discussions on the personalities of the Wehrmacht and of the organizations not covered in the other sections. Hosted by askropp and Frech.
User avatar
Csaba Becze
Member
Posts: 656
Joined: 27 May 2002, 11:44
Location: Hungary
Contact:

Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

#1

Post by Csaba Becze » 10 Jun 2004, 12:49

I am seeking the details of his career in eastern front (especially, when he was the commander of the 17th army)

TIA,

Csaba

User avatar
Dieter Zinke
In memoriam
Posts: 9841
Joined: 02 Dec 2003, 10:12
Location: Koblenz / germany

#2

Post by Dieter Zinke » 10 Jun 2004, 14:44

Hallo Csaba,
sorry for posting the original order in german language

Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel

20.12.1940 - 05.10.1941 OB AOK 17

Hat in Armeebefehlen die antisemitische Sprachregelung des OKW noch übertroffen. Hat die Judenvernichtung aktiv unterstützt, indem er ein Verbindungskommando beim I c / AO zu den EK 6 und SK 4 b der Einsatzgruppe C errichtete.

30.07.1941 erweitert in seiner Anordnung den Gerichtsbarkeitserlass Barbarossa:

“Kollektive Maßnahmen nicht wahllos treffen! Soweit die auslösende Tat der ukrainischen Ortseinwohnerschaft nicht nachgewiesen werden kann, sind die Ortsvorsteher anzuweisen, in erster Linie jüdische und kommunistische Einwohner zu nennen. Durch solchen Druck soll die Bevölkerung zur Anzeigepflicht gezwungen werden .... Zahlreicher zurückgeblieben sind die Angehörigen der russ (ischen) Staatsjugend (Komsomolzen). Auf sie kann bei Notwendigkeit raschen Zugriffs notfalls zurückgegriffen werden. Besonders die jüdischen Komsomolzen sind als Träger der Sabotage und Bandenbildung Jugendlicher anzusehen.“
Stülpnagel forderte von der Abt. Wehrmachtpropaganda im OKW “vermehrter Kampf gegen Judentum .... nachdrücklichste Aufklärung über Judentum.“

05.10.1941 Führerreserve; erkrankt

Oberstab


User avatar
Csaba Becze
Member
Posts: 656
Joined: 27 May 2002, 11:44
Location: Hungary
Contact:

#3

Post by Csaba Becze » 10 Jun 2004, 19:19

Thanks for the interesting details, Oberstab. His rank was still General der Infanterie, when he was sent to the Führerreserve in October, 1941?

User avatar
USAF1986
Member
Posts: 3442
Joined: 21 Mar 2002, 02:50
Location: Louisiana, USA

#4

Post by USAF1986 » 11 Jun 2004, 00:16

His date of rank to General der Infanterie was 1 April 1939 (5). This was the highest rank he achieved. Here's a portrait photo with an "air brushed" Knight's Cross added after the fact. Also, here are his decorations that I am aware of.

• Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross: 21 August 1941, General der Infanterie, Commander-in-Chief of the 17th Army.
• German Cross in Silver: 14 February 1944, General der Infanterie, Military Commander of France.
• Prussian Royal Hohenzollern House Order, Knight’s Cross with Swords
• Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
• Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
• War Merit Cross, 1st Class with Swords
• War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords
• Hesse General Honor Decoration, “for Bravery”
• Hamburg Hanseatic Cross
• Brunswick Ducal Order of Henry the Lion, 4th Class
• Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
• Armed Forces Long Service Award, 1st Class (25-year Service Cross)
• Armed Forces Long Service Award, 3rd Class (12-year Service Medal)
• Austrian Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with War Decoration
• Bulgarian Bravery Order, 4th Class (2nd Grade)
• Wound Badge in Black – World War I award

Best regards,
Shawn
Attachments
Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel.jpg
Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel.jpg (48.37 KiB) Viewed 4169 times

User avatar
Dieter Zinke
In memoriam
Posts: 9841
Joined: 02 Dec 2003, 10:12
Location: Koblenz / germany

#5

Post by Dieter Zinke » 11 Jun 2004, 10:52

Here is Erwin Rommel with Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel (May 1944)

Oberstab
Attachments
Rommel, Stülpnagel.jpg
Rommel, Stülpnagel.jpg (38.89 KiB) Viewed 4132 times

User avatar
VJK
Member
Posts: 4900
Joined: 07 Apr 2002, 16:50
Location: Riga, Latvia

#6

Post by VJK » 11 Jun 2004, 12:10

Hi Oberstab!

That's a nice pic of the 2 - pics of Stülpnagel are surprisingly few and hard to find! With yours, Shawn's and the attached, that's all I've seen! Thank you for posting it. :)

Regards,

VJK
Attachments
Stuelpnagel KH2.jpg
Stuelpnagel KH2.jpg (6.58 KiB) Viewed 4124 times
Stuelpnagel KH.jpg
Stuelpnagel KH.jpg (36.27 KiB) Viewed 4124 times

User avatar
Csaba Becze
Member
Posts: 656
Joined: 27 May 2002, 11:44
Location: Hungary
Contact:

#7

Post by Csaba Becze » 11 Jun 2004, 13:39

Thanks for the posts, guys

User avatar
Dieter Zinke
In memoriam
Posts: 9841
Joined: 02 Dec 2003, 10:12
Location: Koblenz / germany

#8

Post by Dieter Zinke » 11 Jun 2004, 15:26

Stülpnagel in Paris 1942.

Oberstab
Attachments
Stülpnagel.jpg
Stülpnagel.jpg (46.38 KiB) Viewed 4098 times

Roderick
Member
Posts: 704
Joined: 19 May 2003, 14:48
Location: Brazil

#9

Post by Roderick » 11 Jun 2004, 22:06

Just one curiosity about this man.

As he was involved until the neck on plot against Hitler on July 1944, he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head but failed. That bullet only blinded him. He was revived at a hospital and later senteced to death by hanging.
So bizarre end.
Had this individual survived after war I assure the allies would have hanged him too, due to his Governor for Occupied France.

Roderick

User avatar
Dieter Zinke
In memoriam
Posts: 9841
Joined: 02 Dec 2003, 10:12
Location: Koblenz / germany

#10

Post by Dieter Zinke » 12 Jun 2004, 19:06

Hallo Roderick

Please do not mistake Carl Heinrich for Otto von Stülpnagel.
Both were “Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich” !!!

CARL HEINRICH VON STÜLPNAGEL:
He tried to soften the severities of the german occupation forces, so he conflicted with the Higher and Police Leader (HSSPF) Carl-Albrecht Oberg, who has been installed in 1942. Then von Stülpnagel was not responsible for the intensify at all events but the French government and people imputed him. Often of course he was not able to enlighten on the employments.
Committed to the Kriegslazarett in Verdun (medical superintendent KC-holder Oberstabsarzt Dr. med. Rolf Jäger) after his gunshot wounds (he voided fully one orbit and shredded the contralateral optic nerve) Oberg visited him promising to protect his family from “Sippenhaft”.
His confidant contacting the “Widerstand” in Berlin was Oberstleutnant der Reserve Cäsar von Hofacker, the cousin of Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Hofacker was “Referent Eisen und Stahl” in his administration department and Hauptmann z.V. Ernst Jünger (pour le mérite, later also pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste) was Ic (Intelligence) in the same department.


His predecessor as “Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich” in the hotel “Majestic“ in the Avenue Kléber in Paris was his cousin
OTTO VON STÜLPNAGEL:
In August 1941 Hitler's Field Headquarters (the Führerhauptquartier, FHQ) ordered the death penalty for comunistic intrigues (“Todesstrafe für kommunistische Umtriebe“) and Otto von Stülpnagel reacted upon issueing a warrent for the apprehension of 4.000 jews committing them to camp Drancy.
Hitler demanded a 1:100 quotient for hostages after the shot (20.10.1941) of the Feldkommandant of Nantes. The following execution of 98 persons raised up to national and international rebellion and hatred of the French people.
He successfully offered resistance against the institution of an HSSPF by Heydrich. He even beared the “Beauftragter der Sipo und des SD“ (Dr. Max Thomas).


Oberstab

User avatar
Georges M. Croisier
Member
Posts: 205
Joined: 07 May 2002, 23:21
Location: SWITZERLAND

17. Army - von Stülpnagel

#11

Post by Georges M. Croisier » 12 Jun 2004, 22:57

I have the following commanders of 17th army:

Kommandeure:

15. Februar 1941 General der Infanterie Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

25. November 1941 Generaloberst Hermann Hoth

20. April 1942 Generaloberst Hans von Salmuth

1. Juni 1942 Generaloberst Richard Ruoff

24. Juni 1943 Generaloberst Erwin Jänecke

2. März 1944 Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner

31. März 1944 Generaloberst Erwin Jänecke

1. Mai 1944 General der Infanterie Karl Allmendinger

25. Juli 1944 General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz

30. März 1945 General der Infanterie Wilhelm Haase



Apparently, Stülpnagel took command in 1941 and not 1940 and was replaced by Hoth 25/11/1941.

If the date 05/10/41 is correct, who was in charge between Stülpnagel and Hoth ???

User avatar
Dieter Zinke
In memoriam
Posts: 9841
Joined: 02 Dec 2003, 10:12
Location: Koblenz / germany

#12

Post by Dieter Zinke » 12 Jun 2004, 23:40

Hallo Georges:

17. Armee
Gen. d.Inf. Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel 20.12.40 - 04.10.41
GO Hermann Hoth 05.10.41 - 20.04.42
Gen. d.Inf. Hans von Salmuth 20.4.42 - 1.6.42 m.st.F.b.
GO Richard Ruoff 01.06.42 - 00.06.43
Gen. d.Pi. Erwin Jaenecke m.F.b. 03.06.43
Gen. d.Pi./GO Erwin Jaenecke 08.10.43 - 01.05.44
Gen. d.Geb.Tr. Ferdinand Schörner 02.03.44 - 14.03.44 m.st.F.b.
Gen. d.Inf. Karl Allmendinger 27.04.44 (m.W. 01.05.1944) - 25.07.44 m.d.F.b.
Gen. d.Inf. Friedrich Schulz 25.07.44 - 25.03.45
Gen. d.Inf. Wilhelm Hasse 30.03.45 - 08.05.45

Oberstab

User avatar
Georges M. Croisier
Member
Posts: 205
Joined: 07 May 2002, 23:21
Location: SWITZERLAND

Stülpnagel

#13

Post by Georges M. Croisier » 13 Jun 2004, 11:39

Thanks for the reply.

A mistake from Keilig.

User avatar
Georges M. Croisier
Member
Posts: 205
Joined: 07 May 2002, 23:21
Location: SWITZERLAND

Stülpnagel

#14

Post by Georges M. Croisier » 13 Jun 2004, 11:41

Thanks for the reply.

A mistake from Keilig.

Columbo
Member
Posts: 16
Joined: 12 Aug 2004, 07:18
Location: Deutschland/ Bayern

#15

Post by Columbo » 12 Aug 2004, 18:43

Hello!

Does someone have pics of "Otto von Stülpnagel"?

Post Reply

Return to “The Dieter Zinke Axis Biographical Research Section”