Biegeleben, Arnold Christiaan Rüdiger Joseph Maria Freiherr von, born on 16-04-1883 in Hanover
the son of the Prussian Generalmajor Ludwig Maximilian von Biegeleben (1849-1921) and his wife Therese, born Freiin von Esebeck (* 1854), was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II, who commanded the 6th Infantry-Division. He was also a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross.
Biegeleben entered the Army service as a Fahnenjunker in the 1st Großherzoglich Hessischen 25th Feld-Artillerie-Regiment, the Großherzoglichen Artillerie-Korps. Arnold was promoted to lieutenant in mid-August 1902 and graduated from the Jüterbog field artillery shooting school in the spring of 1905. From 1906 to 1908 Biegeleben was adjutant in the 2nd Department, then rose to regimental adjutant and was promoted to first lieutenant in this position on 18-08-1910. Biegeleben during World War I, at the age 31, is fighting at the Western Front, near the river Maas in Reims, at Verdun, Cambrai and at the Somme, all the big battles.
At the end of the war he is an Adjutant in the Generalkommando of the VI. Reserve-Korps under command of General der Infantry Kurt von dem Borne
. Von dem Borne died age 86 on 22-11-1933. Von Biegeleben also remained in the new 100.000 men Reichswehr
. Biegeleben as commander of the 6th Infantry Division
, succeeded General der Pioniere, Walter Kuntze,












Death and burial ground of Biegeleben, Arnold Christiaan Rüdiger Joseph Maria Freiherr von.



Shortly after this battle, von Biegeleben died of heart failure in Jullouville, in France, on 11-10-1940, at the age of 57. Freiherr von Biegeleben is buried, between his soldiers, on the War Cemetery of La Cambe. Near his grave are also buried the man responsibly for the massacre of Oradour sur Glane,









The massacre was an act of revenge. The reason given is an action by the French Resistance on 08-06-1944. A railway bridge was blown up in Saint-Junien, a town near Oradour. Two German soldiers were said to have been killed, including SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe,
who was a personal friend of SS-Sturmbannführer Diekmann. Another reading is that Kämpfe was kidnapped by the resistance. After his official vehicle was found empty, the SS division started a massive search for him and his driver.


Also buried there is the Panzer Ace SS Hauptsturmführer, Zugführer 13 SS Panzer Regiment 1 “LSSAH”, Michael Wittmann
and his crew. Also the Generalmajor der Infanterie, Chef der ST Panzergruppe West, Sigismund Edler von Dawans




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