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Йоахим Лемелзен Йоахим Лемелзен (на немски: Joachim Lemelsen) е немски офицер служил през Първата и Втората световна война. Съдържание Биография[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Ранен живот и Първа световна война (1914-1918)[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Йоахим Лемелзен е роден на 28 септември 1888 г. в Берлин, Германска империя. Син е на военен офицер. Присъединява се към армията и през юни 1907 г. става офицерски кадет. По време на Първата световна война служи в артилерийски подразделения и до края ѝ се издига до звание капитан. Междувоенен период[редактиране | редактиране на кода] След примирението остава на служба в артилерията в Райхсвера. Между 1934 и 1935 г. служи като комендант в артилерийско-пехотното училище. От март 1938 г. е преместен в 29-та пехотна дивизия и в същото време е издигнат в звание лейтенант. Втора световна война (1939-1945)[редактиране | редактиране на кода] В началото на Втора световна война, достигнал звание генерал-лейтенант, командва 5-та танкова дивизия (29 май 1940 г.), а на 25 ноември поема командването на 47-ми моторизиран корпус. Следват назначения в редица подразделения: на 24 октомври 1943 г. поема 10-та армия, на 19 май 1944 г. - 1-ва армия, на 5 юни 1944 г. - 14-та армия. Пленяване и смърт[редактиране | редактиране на кода] През май 1945 г. попада в британски плен и е освободен през 1947 г.[1] Умира в Гьотинген, Германия на 30 март 1954 г. Военна декорация[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Използвана литература[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Библиография[редактиране | редактиране на кода] - (нем.) Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000 г.). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939—1945. Фридебург, Германия: Podzun-Pallas. Бележки[редактиране | редактиране на кода] Външни препратки[редактиране | редактиране на кода] - Каталогът на ГНБ съдържа литература от/за Йоахим Лемелзен - (нем.) Ген. Лемелзен в немския сайт - Lexikon der Wehrmacht
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Joachim Lemelsen Joachim Hermann August Lemelsen (28 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during the Second World War. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Early years[edit] Born in Berlin as the son of a German career military officer, Lemelsen entered the German army in 1907. During the First World War Lemelsen served as an artillery officer until 1916, when he was transferred to the staff of the 52nd infantry division. In 1917 he was transferred to the staff of the commanding officer of the German sea coast, Josias von Heeringen, commanded a battalion and was sent to the staff of the VI Reserve Corps. Lemelsen ended the war as a captain with the Iron Cross First and Second class and the House Order of Hohenzollern. Interbellum[edit] After the Armistice, Lemelsen returned to the artillery. He served as commandant of the Artillery School in 1934 and as commandant of the Infantry School in 1935. In March 1938, Lemelsen was given command of the 29th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), later motorized, with which he participated in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Second World War[edit] Lemelsen and the 29th served in the Polish campaign {the 29th was involved in the Massacre in Ciepielów of 8 September 1939} and the early stages of the Battle of France. On May 28, 1940 Lemelsen was given command of the 5th Panzer Division with which he participated in the Dunkirk campaign. On November 25, 1940, Lemelsen was given command of the new XLVII Motorized Corps, which he led in the capture of Smolensk and the battles of Kiev and Bryansk. The Corps was designated a Panzer Corps in June 1942 and participated as such in anti-partisan operations and in the Battle of Kursk. Lemelsen made a strong but futile protest to the Wehrmacht High Command against the shooting of unarmed Russian prisoners during the early phases of Operation Barbarossa. I am repeatedly finding out about the shooting of prisoners, defectors or deserters, carried out in an irresponsible, senseless and criminal manner. This is murder. Soon the Russians will get to hear about the countless corpses lying along the routes taken by our soldiers, without weapons and with hands raised, dispatched at close range by shots to the head. The result will be that the enemy will hide in the woods and fields and continue to fight--and we shall lose countless comrades.[1] After having commanded the XLVII Panzer Corps in Russia, Lemelsen was placed in the Army Leadership Reserve and temporarily commanded the Tenth Army in Italy for two months until the end of December 1943. Lemelsen was given command of the First Army, stationed near the Atlantic coast in France in May 1944. Only one month later, upon the Allies' capture of Rome and landing in Normandy on the same day, Lemelsen was transferred to Italy to take over command of the Fourteenth Army to replace Eberhard von Mackensen who the theatre commander Albert Kesselring had dismissed. Lemelsen commanded the army in the Italian Campaign from June 1944 until mid October when he was given command of Germany's other major formation in Italy 10th Army. In February 1945 he returned to the leadership of 14th Army until the end of hostilities in Italy in early May. Imprisoned by British forces after the war, Lemelsen in 1947 testified on behalf of his former commander,[2] Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring, during Kesselring’s war crimes trial before a British military court convened at Venice, Italy. Soon thereafter, Lemelsen was freed from captivity. Kesselring, however, received a death sentence, immediately commuted to life imprisonment. Lemelsen's former commander was nevertheless released from prison five years later on health grounds. For his service, Lemelsen was awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves. Released from captivity in 1947, General der Panzertruppen Joachim Lemelsen died in Göttingen in 1954. Awards[edit] - Iron Cross (1914) - Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg (14 April 1917) - Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (30 October 1918) - Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 - Sudetenland Medal with Prague Castle Bar - Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) - Wound Badge (1939) - in Black (14 June 1942) - Eastern Front Medal (1 August 1942) - Panzer Badge in Silver (13 January 1942) - German Cross in Gold (15 July 1942) - Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves - Knight's Cross on 27 July 1941 as General der Panzertruppe and commanding general of the XXXXVII. Panzerkorps[4][5] - 294th Oak Leaves on 7 September 1943 as General der Panzertruppe and commanding general of the XXXXVII. Panzerkorps[4][6] References[edit] - Citations - Bibliography - Alman, Karl (2008). Panzer vor - Die dramtische Geschichte der deutschen Panzerwaffe und ihre tapferen Soldaten. Würzburg, Germany: Flechsig Verlag. - Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 – Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtsteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. - Hastings, Max (2011). Inferno: the world at war, 1939-1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. - Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. - Schaulen, Fritjof (2004). Eichenlaubträger 1940 – 1945 Zeitgeschichte in Farbe II Ihlefeld - Primozic [Oak Leaves Bearers 1940 – 1945 Contemporary History in Color II Ihlefeld - Primozic] (in German). Selent, Germany: Pour le Mérite. - Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. - Thomas, Franz (1998). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. External links[edit] - Profile, General der Panzertruppe Joachim Hermann August Lemelsen based on a microfilm copy of Lemelsen’s service record housed at the United States National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. - Joachim Lemelsen @ Axis Biographical Research at the Wayback Machine (archived January 17, 2011) - Joachim Lemelsen @ Ritterkreuztraeger 1939-1945 - Joachim Lemelsen @ World War 2 Awards.com - Joachim Lemelsen @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht - 1888 births - 1954 deaths - People from Berlin - Wehrmacht generals - German military personnel of World War I - Prussian Army personnel - People from the Province of Brandenburg - Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg) - Knights of the House Order of Hohenzollern - Recipients of The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 - Recipients of the Gold German Cross - Recipients of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves - German prisoners of war - World War II prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom - Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class