گوتهارد هاينريتشي

Gotthard Heinrici
Gotthard Heinrici.jpg
Heinrici as Colonel General, 1943
الكنيةUnser Giftzwerg (Our Poison Dwarf/Our tough Little bastard)
ولد(1886-12-25)25 ديسمبر 1886
Gumbinnen, Kreis Gumbinnen, مقاطعة پروسيا الشرقية، مملكة پروسيا, الامبراطورية الألمانية
(present-day Gusev, Gusevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, روسيا)
توفي10 ديسمبر 1971(1971-12-10) (aged 84)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, ألمانيا الغربية
دُفـِنBergäcker Cemetery
الولاء الإمبراطورية الألمانية
 جمهورية ڤايمار (1918–1933)
 ألمانيا النازية (1933–1945)
الخدمة/الفرع Imperial German Army
Reichsheer
الجيش الألماني
سنين الخدمة1905–1945
الرتبةGeneraloberst (Wehrmacht) 8.svg Generaloberst
قيادات مناطة16th Infantry Division
14th Company, 13th Württembergish Infantry Regiment
III Battalion, 3rd Prussian Infantry Regiment
XII Army Corps
XXXXIII Army Corps
4th Army
1st Panzer Army
Army Group Vistula
المعارك/الحروب
انظر المعارك

الحرب العالمية الأولى

الحرب العالمية الثانية

الأوسمةKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
الأقاربGeorg Heinrici (uncle)
Gerd von Rundstedt (cousin)
التوقيعGotthard Heinrici signature.svg

گوتهارد فدور أوگوست هاينريتشي Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici ‏(25 ديسمبر 1886 – 10 ديسمبر 1971)[1] كان جنرال ألمان أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية. ويُعتبر هاينريتشي الخبير الدفاعي الأول في الڤيرماخت. وكان القائد الأعلى لـ مجموعة جيوش ڤيستولا، المشكلة من بقايا مجموعة الجيوش أ و مجموعة جيوش المركز للدفاع عن برلين أمام الجيوش السوڤيتية الزاحفة من نهر ڤيستولا.

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النشأة والعمل

Heinrici was born in 1886 in East Prussia, the son of a minister of the (Protestant) Evangelical Church in Germany. Following graduation from secondary school in 1905, he joined the army on 8 March 1905 as a cadet in an infantry division. From 1905 to 1906, Heinrici attended a war school. During World War I, Heinrici fought in the German invasion of Belgium and earned the Iron Cross 2nd Class in September 1914. Heinrici's division was then transferred to the Eastern Front. There, he fought in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes and the Battle of Łódź, receiving the Iron Cross 1st Class in July 1915.[2]

In May 1916, Heinrici took part in the Battle of Verdun. Beginning in September 1916, he served in General Staff positions with the XXIV Reserve Corps and the 115th Infantry Division.[3] In March 1917, Heinrici was posted to the German General Staff. In September, he attended a General Staffs officer training course, and later served as a staff officer with VII Corps and the VIII Corps. In February 1918, Heinrici was posted to an infantry division, serving as a staff officer responsible for operations. In this position, he was awarded the Prussian Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords in August 1918.[3]

Heinrici had two children, Hartmut and Gisela, with his wife Gertrude.[4] He was a devout Protestant who regularly visited the church. His religious faith and refusal to join the Nazi party made him unpopular with the Nazi hierarchy and led to clashes with Hitler and Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who scorned him.[5] Because Heinrici's wife Gertrude had a Jewish parent, their children were labeled Mischlinge (partly Jewish) under Nazi racial law. However, Heinrici received a "German Blood Certificate" from Hitler himself, which validated their supposed "Aryan" status and protected them from discrimination.


الحرب العالمية الثانية

During the Battle of France, Heinrici's command was part of General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's Army Group C. He commanded the XII Army Corps which was part of the 1st Army. Heinrici's forces succeeded in breaking through the Maginot Line south of Saarbrücken on 14 June 1940.

In 1941, during Operation Barbarossa, Heinrici served in the 4th Army under Günther von Kluge as the commanding general of the XXXXIII Army Corps during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk, the Battle of Kiev and the Battle of Moscow. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in 1941. Late in January 1942, Heinrici was given command of the 4th Army. On 24 November 1943 he was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross for his leadership during the Battle of Orsha, when the 4th Army taking defensive positions near the Orsha region in Belarus, temporarily halted the advance of the Western Front led by General Vasiliy Sokolovsky.[6] During the 4th Army's retreat, it inflicted heavy losses on the advancing Red Army. These successes contributed greatly to Heinrici's reputation as a defensive specialist.[7] Later in 1943 he refused to obey an order to destroy the city of Smolensk by fire before the German army's retreat, and he was temporarily dismissed from his post as commander.

Field Marshal Günther von Kluge (left) and Heinrici, mid 1943

In 1944, after the previous successes of the Red Army in Ukraine, Heinrici repeatedly argued for the retreat of Army Group Center and a concomitant shortening of the front line, Hitler rejected these plans at a staff meeting on 20 May 1944. On 4 June Heinrici was relieved of command of the 4th Army, which was later encircled east of Minsk and nearly destroyed during Operation Bagration.[8]

In the summer of 1944, after eight months of enforced retirement, Heinrici was sent to Hungary and placed in command of the 1st Panzer Army; as well as the Hungarian First Army which was attached to it. He was able to keep the 1st Panzer Army relatively intact as it retreated into Slovakia. Later in 1944 during the Battle of the Dukla Pass, the 1st Panzer Army prevented Soviet forces from linking up with Slovak rebel forces of the concurrent Slovak National Uprising. Heinrici was awarded the Swords to the Oak Leaves of his Knight's Cross on 3 March 1945.

الانسحاب من الأودر

On 20 March 1945, Adolf Hitler replaced Heinrich Himmler with Heinrici as Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Vistula on the Eastern Front. Indicating that he was ill, Himmler had abandoned his post on 13 March and retired to a sanatorium at Lychen.[9] At this time, Army Group Vistula's front was less than 50 miles from Berlin.

Army Group Vistula consisted of two armies: the 3rd Panzer Army led by General Hasso von Manteuffel and the 9th Army led by General Theodor Busse. Heinrici was tasked with preventing a Soviet attack across the Oder River amid shortages of manpower and materiel. Only the terrain itself favoured Heinrici; he dug the 9th Army into three defensive lines atop Seelow Heights, overlooking the sandy, swampy banks of the Oder. Manteuffel's 3rd Panzer Army, which had fewer panzers than the 9th, was similarly positioned in the north to delay a possible flanking strike by Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's 2nd Byelorussian Front.

On 16 April the Battle of the Oder-Neisse began. The Soviets attacked with about 1,500,000 men for what they called the "Berlin Offensive Operation".[10] During the Battle of Berlin, Heinrici withdrew his troops westward and made no attempt to defend the city. By late April, Heinrici ordered the retreat of his army group across the Oder River. Hitler only became aware of the retreat of Army Group Vistula around 21 April, after a puzzling request by Heinrici, who sought permission to move his headquarters to a new site, which was further west than Berlin.

تبرئته

On 28 April Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, was riding along the roads north of Berlin when he noticed that troops of the 7th Panzer Division and of the 25th Panzergrenadier Division were marching north, away from Berlin. These troops were part of General Hasso von Manteuffel's 3rd Panzer Army. As one of the two armies which made up Heinrici's Army Group Vistula, it was supposed to be on its way to Berlin. Instead, Heinrici was moving it northward in an attempt to halt the Soviet breakthrough at Neubrandenburg, contrary to orders of Keitel and his deputy, General Alfred Jodl. Keitel located Heinrici on a road near Neubrandenburg, accompanied by Manteuffel. The encounter resulted in a heated confrontation that led to Heinrici's dismissal by 29 April for disobeying orders.[11]

Heinrici was replaced by General Kurt Student.[12] General Kurt von Tippelskirch was named as Heinrici's interim replacement until Student could arrive and assume control of Army Group Vistula. Student was captured by the British before he could take command.[13] The rapidly deteriorating situation that the Germans faced meant that Army Group Vistula's coordination of the armies under its nominal command during the last few days of the war was of little significance.[14]

Heinrici was dismissed by Keitel for refusing to save Hitler. He was summoned to Berlin and would have complied had Captain Hellmuth Lang not persuaded him to "drive as slowly as you can" to Plön instead, informing him that he would be murdered in Berlin like Rommel (who had been Heinrici's adjutant, and later Lang's commander).[15][16] Heinrici then gave himself up to British forces on 28 May.

بعد الحرب

After his capture, Heinrici was held at Island Farm, a British prisoner of war camp at Bridgend, South Wales, where he remained, except for a three-week transfer to a camp in the United States in October 1947, until his release on 19 May 1948.[17] In the 1950s, he helped create the Operational History (German) Section of the United States Army Center of Military History, established in January 1946 to harness the operational knowledge and experience of German prisoners of war for the United States Army. He was also featured prominently in Cornelius Ryan's 1966 book, The Last Battle. Heinrici died in 1971 in Karlsruhe[1] and was buried with full military honours at the Bergäcker cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau.

ذكراه

Despite being married to a half-Jewish (Mischling) woman,[18] Heinrici supported many Nazi nationalistic and fascistic policies including the Lebensraum concept of territorial expansion,[19][20] but disagreed with many of their racial policies. He was shocked by the anti-Jewish pogroms of Kristallnacht, although this did not lead him to distance himself from the Nazi regime.[21]

On the eve of Operation Barbarossa, Heinrici, on receiving the Commissar Order, justified it as easing pressure on the front lines through the exercise of "preventive terror" in the rear.[22] Heinrici wrote home to his family that the Soviet soldier fought "very hard", he concluded that Soviet soldiers were "a much better soldier than the Frenchman. Extremely tough, devious and deceitful."[23] He repeatedly ignored "scorched-earth" orders, such as the order to destroy the historically significant city of Smolensk.[24]

As a military commander, historians have described him as the premier defensive expert of the Wehrmacht and a genius admired by his peers, although little-known today because he was, in the words of Samuel W. Mitcham, "as charismatic as a 20-pound sack of fertilizer".[25][26][27]

In 2014, Heinrici's private letters and diaries were published in the book A German General on the Eastern Front: The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942 edited by Johannes Hürter. In his writings, Heinrici revealed his growing doubts about Hitler's strategy and his mounting concern as the Wehrmacht was implicated in war crimes and the first actions of the Holocaust.[5]

الأوسمة

المراجع

الهامش

  1. ^ أ ب Hürter 2014, p. 10.
  2. ^ Stockert 1998, pp. 151, 152.
  3. ^ أ ب Stockert 1998, p. 152.
  4. ^ Rigg 2002, p. 433.
  5. ^ أ ب Hürter 2014.
  6. ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 206.
  7. ^ Das Inferno der Autobahnschlachten in Russland, welt.de, abgerufen am 13. Februar 2014
  8. ^ Ziemke 2002, pp. 323–325.
  9. ^ Duffy 1991, p. 241.
  10. ^ Beevor 2002, p. 287.
  11. ^ Dollinger 1967, p. 171.
  12. ^ Beevor 2002, p. 338.
  13. ^ Dollinger 1967, p. 228.
  14. ^ Ziemke 1969, p. 128.
  15. ^ Mitcham, Samuel (2012). Hitler's Commanders: Officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-4422-1154-4.
  16. ^ Ryan, Cornelius (1966). The last battle. Simon and Schuster. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-1-4736-2008-7.
  17. ^ www.specialcamp11.co.uk
  18. ^ Rigg, Bryan Mark (2002). Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. University Press of Kansas. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-7006-1178-2.
  19. ^ Hürter, Johannes (1 January 2007). Hitlers Heerführer: Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion 1941/42. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-3-486-70744-1.
  20. ^ Steber, Martina; Gotto, Bernhard (8 May 2014). Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social Engineering and Private Lives. OUP Oxford. pp. 261–262. ISBN 978-0-19-100373-8.
  21. ^ Hürter (2007). Hitlers Heerführer: Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion 1941/42. p. 512. ISBN 9783486707441.
  22. ^ Stargardt, Nicholas (2015). The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45. London: Random House. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4735-2373-9.
  23. ^ Stahel, David (2009). Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780521768474.
  24. ^ McCormack, David (2017). The Berlin 1945 Battlefield Guide:: Part 1: The Battle of the Oder-Neisse, Part 1. Stroud: Fonthill Media. ISBN 978-1781556078.
  25. ^ Mitcham 2012, pp. 66--67.
  26. ^ Papadopoulos, Randy; Zabecki, David T. (2015). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 338. ISBN 978-1-135-81242-3.
  27. ^ WWII: Time-Life History of the Second World War. Barnes & Noble Books. 1989. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-56619-984-1.
  28. ^ أ ب ت Scherzer 2007, p. 377.
  29. ^ أ ب Thomas 1997, p. 263.

ببليوگرافيا

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  • Duffy, Christopher (1991). Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March On Germany, 1945. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80505-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Evans, Richard J. (2008). The Third Reich at War. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-14-311671-4.
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  • Rigg, Bryan Mark (2002). Hitler's Jewish soldiers: the untold story of Nazi racial laws and men of Jewish descent in the German military. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1178-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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  • Thomas, Franz (1997). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 1: A–K [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 1: A–K] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2299-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Ziemke, Earl F. (1969). Battle for Berlin End of the Third Reich Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II (Battle Book #6). Ballantine Books. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington D.C.: Center of Military History, US Army. ISBN 978-1-78039-287-5.


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