Bodecker, Karl-Adolf, born on 27-08-1896 in Peine,
entered the Army as a Fahnenjunker in the 5th Dragon Regiment, on 24-04-1914, age 17. He participated in World War I and he was fighting in the famous region of Ieper
and later sent a letter to Belgium friends. He was very surprised, he wrote, by the kindness of the people in Ieper, who had no objections to accept the German money from the occupying warriors. He ended the war in the 11th Cavalry Regiment, as a Oberleutenant. He retired from the Army Service on 30-09-1920 but reactivated in the new Reichswehr
on 01-06-1923. He climbed up the ranks to Oberst on 01-08-1939 with the command of the 59th Motorized Pioneer Battalion at the beginning of World War II. He hold this command until 10-03-1941 and as an Adjutant and Chief Personnel Officer IIa in the General Staff of the XXXXVII Panzer Corps, under General der Panzertruppe, Heinrich Eberbach









After the war he lived in Bad Pyrmont, the same town as fellow Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Kommandeur 25th Heeresgruppe, Georg Bertram.



Death and burial ground of Bodecker, Karl-Adolf.


