Lancelle, Otto Quirin.

Lancelle, Otto Quirin, born 27-03-1885 in Xanten, Lower Rhine, the eleventh child of Hauptmann Emanuel Lancelle († 1908) and his wife Fanny, born Quirin. Otto entered the Imperial Navy as a Sea cadet on 01-05-1904, age 20, but was soon, on 11-12-1905, transferred to the Army Service. He became a Fahnenjunker with the Cleveschen 43^rd Field Artillery Regiment. He was in the fields of the first war as a leader of the 2^nd Battery Company of the 6^th Guards Field Artillery Regiment. He was wounded  on 21-07-1915 in the left shoulder and on 05-08-1915 in the left lower arm. Lancelle retired on 31-10-1920 and joined the Organization Stahlhelm, under SA leader, Ernst Röhm

 .  Already since 1923 he was a member of the NSDAP and participated in the same year in the Hitler Putsch. with victims Theodor von Pfordten and Andreas Bauriedl 

   and was as a SA Standartenführer in the Staff of the Supreme SA Leadership, in 1935.

He was reactivated in the Army Service again on 01-10-1935 as a Major in the Staff of the 7^th Artillery Regiment and with the beginning of World War II, Lancelle, meanwhile an Oberst, was Commandant of Frankfurt an der Oder, until 25-10-1939. He was appointed as commander of the 168^th Artillery Regiment to 25-11-1940, Artillery Commandant 138, to 06-05-1941 and commander of the 121^st Infantry Division  until 03-07-1941, where he succeeded General der Artillerie, Martin Wandel.

In this position Lancelle was killed in action, by a Russian sniper, on 03-07-1941, age 56, on the bridgehead of Kraslava on the Dvina, Latvia.

Death and burial ground of Lancelle, Otto Quirin.

  He is buried with his wife Elisabeth, born Hömberg-Board, who died age 56, on 07-09-1948, on the Stadtfriedhof of Garmisch. The marriage produced the children Ursel (* 1917), Kraft (* August 17, 1920) and Dagmar Alexandra (* 1924).  Also buried there are the WWII General der Artillerie, Kommandeur 16^th Armeekorps, Christain Hansen,  Generalleutnant der Panzertruppe,Kommandant Festung Pillau, Eduard Hauser, Generalmajor der Artillerie, Kommandeur Artillerie Regiment Fallschirmjäger, Iwan von Ilsemann, Oberst der Flieger,  Organisater of “Zahme Sau “ tatics, Victor von Lossberg,  Generalleutnant der Flieger, Inspector of the Military Replacement Inspection, in Schwerin, Theodor Triendl, Generalmajor der Flieger, Kommandeur des Flughafen-Bereichs 2/XVII, Wilhelm Voelk, General der Flieger, Kommandeur Luftregio Belgium-France, Wilhelm Wimmer   and Admiral, Reichs Commissioner at the Upper Prize Court in Berlin, Hermann Densch.

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