Geitner, Kurt Ritter von, born 03-05-1884 in Truppacher Hof, Contwig, 
the son of a landlord. He married Hedwig Kollmar in 1909, with whom he had four children. However, one of them died as a child. He entered the Army Service, on 19-07-1902, age 17, as a Fahnenjunker in the 5th Field Artillery Regiment “König Alfons XIII of Spain” 
in Landau in der Pfalz. After his appointment as ensign on 29-01-1903, he was assigned to the Munich War School from 01-03-1903 to 03-02-1904. After successful completion, he was promoted to lieutenant on 09-03-1904. Geitner spent the next two and a half years in troop service with his regiment in order to be assigned to the artillery and engineering school from 01-10-1906 to 31-07-1907. From 01-10-1909 Geitner was used initially as a department adjutant for one year and then as a regimental adjutant for two years. As a first lieutenant (since 07-03-1913) he was assigned to the Bavarian War Academy. However, he had to break off his training with the beginning of the First World War and the associated closure of the war academy. As a Company leader he is on the Western front and received the title of Ritter von Geitner. He survived the war and retired on 16-09-1919, age 35. He then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and worked for the following years as a businessman in Schneeberg / Saxony. He reactivated in the growing Reichswehr 
as a major in the 31st Infantry Regiment, in Plauen, on 01-10-1935, already age 51. He joined World War II as the commander of the 209th Infantry Replacement Regiment. Assigned to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps in Dresden, Paul von Hindenburg 
was once their commander. On 11-04-1940 he is in the Staff of the VIII Army Corps under Generaloberst, 
Walter Heitz 
in Breslau until 25-10-1940. General Heitz died of cancer in Soviet captivity, age 65, on 09-02-1944. As an Oberstleutnant he, from 18-06-1941, was Chief of the General Staff 
of the Army Group Central. Landed on 16-02-1942 in the Führer Reserve until 04-07-1942 and on 01-06-1942 promoted to Oberst and Chief of Staff of the Commanding Generals of Serbian, General Paul Bader, 
who died age 87 on 28-02-1971 in Emmendingen. Geitner as a Generalmajor now was with the Military Commander South East and on 01-11-1944 again in the Reserve, until 29-01-1945. Detached to the OKW Wehrmacht Operations Staff B in the South, until 16-04-1945. Representative of OKW 
for the OKW Operations Staff B, to 08-05-1945. He then lands in Allied captivity and accused of war crimes by Internationale Militär Tribunal in the Process against Generals in Südosteuropa, but got acquittal.
the son of a landlord. He married Hedwig Kollmar in 1909, with whom he had four children. However, one of them died as a child. He entered the Army Service, on 19-07-1902, age 17, as a Fahnenjunker in the 5th Field Artillery Regiment “König Alfons XIII of Spain” in Landau in der Pfalz. After his appointment as ensign on 29-01-1903, he was assigned to the Munich War School from 01-03-1903 to 03-02-1904. After successful completion, he was promoted to lieutenant on 09-03-1904. Geitner spent the next two and a half years in troop service with his regiment in order to be assigned to the artillery and engineering school from 01-10-1906 to 31-07-1907. From 01-10-1909 Geitner was used initially as a department adjutant for one year and then as a regimental adjutant for two years. As a first lieutenant (since 07-03-1913) he was assigned to the Bavarian War Academy. However, he had to break off his training with the beginning of the First World War and the associated closure of the war academy. As a Company leader he is on the Western front and received the title of Ritter von Geitner. He survived the war and retired on 16-09-1919, age 35. He then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and worked for the following years as a businessman in Schneeberg / Saxony. He reactivated in the growing Reichswehr as a major in the 31st Infantry Regiment, in Plauen, on 01-10-1935, already age 51. He joined World War II as the commander of the 209th Infantry Replacement Regiment. Assigned to the General Staff of the IV Army Corps in Dresden, Paul von Hindenburg was once their commander. On 11-04-1940 he is in the Staff of the VIII Army Corps under Generaloberst, Walter Heitz in Breslau until 25-10-1940. General Heitz died of cancer in Soviet captivity, age 65, on 09-02-1944. As an Oberstleutnant he, from 18-06-1941, was Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group Central. Landed on 16-02-1942 in the Führer Reserve until 04-07-1942 and on 01-06-1942 promoted to Oberst and Chief of Staff of the Commanding Generals of Serbian, General Paul Bader, who died age 87 on 28-02-1971 in Emmendingen. Geitner as a Generalmajor now was with the Military Commander South East and on 01-11-1944 again in the Reserve, until 29-01-1945. Detached to the OKW Wehrmacht Operations Staff B in the South, until 16-04-1945. Representative of OKW for the OKW Operations Staff B, to 08-05-1945. He then lands in Allied captivity and accused of war crimes by Internationale Militär Tribunal in the Process against Generals in Südosteuropa, but got acquittal.Death and burial ground of Geitner, Kurt Ritter von.
Released on 19-02-1948 he lived in Munich, where he at the old age of 84 died, on 06-09-1968. Ritter Kurt von Geitner is buried with his wife Hedwig, born Kollmar, who died age 63 on 20-05-1963, on the cemetery of Pasing in Munich, only steps from the grave of WWII General der Artillerie, Commander of Special Purpose Higher Command XXXIII, Erwin Engelbrecht.
