Feldt, Kurt Friesdrich Konrad, born 22-11-1887 in Schmentau,
the son of district councilor Konrad Feldt and his wife Johanna, born von Kries. joined the Army Service with the German Cavalry on 22-09-1908, being enlisted as a Fahnenjunker in the 1 st Kavallerie Division
at the beginning of World War I. Kurt was promoted to Leutnant on 22-03-1910 and was in the fields with his division and ended the war as a Adjutant of a Cavalry Brigade. Feldt was one of the 100.000 men Reichswehr
, 8 infantry and 2 cavalry divisions, had the rank of Rittmeister with the 29th Cavalry Regiment. He became commander of the 3rd Horse Regiment and promoted to Oberst on 01-04-1936. On 10-11-1938 he lost his command to the later famous but now still Oberstleutnant der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur General XIV Panzer Korps, Fridolin Senger von Etterlin.
Feldt was now appointed as the new commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade where he succeeded Generalmajor Eberhard Mackensen


















In June 1940, under his command, the division took the French town of Saumur, where the head of the French cavalry was located, as well as the famous dressage team Cadre Noir
.

Feldt received the clasps of the Iron Cross for his leading. He then was transferred to the Eastern front in central Russia, Operation Barbarossa, battle of Kiev and received the Knight Cross of the Iron Cross
. He became a Generalleutnant on 01-02-1941, lost his command mid April 1942 and landed in the infamous Führer Reserve
(see Adolf). Assigned to the Staff of the Military Office Area B in France in the summer of 1942 and mid July 1942 as Chief of the Military Office Area B in Anger the South West of occupied France. Then appointed as commander of Region South West France on 11-01-1943 and promoted to General of the Cavalry.


Death and burial ground of Feldt, Kurt Friedrich Konrad.
Begin September 1944 he becomes the Commanding General of General Command “Feldt” until the end of December and again in the Reserve. In February 1945 he is transferred to Denmark as the General in the Staff of the Wehrmacht Commander over there, Generaloberst der Infanterie, Kommandeur Heeresgruppe Norwegen, Nikolaus Falkenhorst.
Feldt also landed in captivity in Mai 1945, captured by the British forces and released in 1947. Living in Berlin, Stahnsdorf, he at the old age of 83 died on 11-03-1970 and is buried with his wife Erna, born Baehr, on the cemetery Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, Berlin. Close by the graves of the General der Infanterie, Commanding General of the LXXXII Army Corps, Alfred Boehm-Tettelbach,







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