Lendle, Hubert.

Lendle, Hubert, born 28-02-1892 in Schöntal, son of the Oberförster Konrad Lendle (1852-1902) and his wife Maria (birth name Walser) (1852) born in Schöntal. He had three brothers and two sisters. From 1898 to 1910 he attended the Volksschule in Schöntal. After this he went to the gymnasium in Heilbronn, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Munich (final diploma). In 1911, Lendle entered the University of Munich. Hubert entered the Army Service age 19, on 24-07-1911, as a Fahnnjunker in the 126^th Infantry Regiment and served during the first war in this Regiment. He remained in the new Reichswehr  and retired from the Army , age 40, on 31-05-1932. He went to the USSR for a Panzer training and reactivated in the growing Wehrmacht on 01-08-1933. With the outbreak of World War II he as an Oberst was the commander of the 26^th Infantry Replacement Regiment to 01-12-1939 and appointed to commander of the 345 Infantry Regiment and landed in the Führer Reserve for the first time to 25-10-1940. Appointed to Commander of Troop Exercise Grounds Veldahorn to 15-12-1940, Commander of the 578^th Infantry Regiment until 31-03-1942, meanwhile a Generalmajor and landed again in the infamous Führer Reserve to 25-04-1942. He then was with the Staff of Army Group Centre,under command of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge

commander of the 221^st Security Division and landed for the third time in the Reserve to 18-11-1944, assigned as commander of the Division Staff 607 to 22-11-1944 and of the Division Staff 610 until his captivity on 08-05-1945.

Death and burial ground of Lendle, Hubert.

Lemke was released in June 1947 and retired in Stuttgart where he at the age of 78 died, on 13-10-1970. Lemke is buried on the Prager cemetery in Stuttgart next to famous WWII personalities as, Generalmajor der Infanterie, Hans Speidel,  General Field Marshal der Panzertruppe, Erwin Rommel’s

  adjutant, Generalleutnant der Pioniere, Kommandeur des Ersatzheeres, Hans von Donat, Generalleutnant der Pioniere, Kommandeur Heeresgruppe Süd, Gustav Boehringer and the airship builder Graf Ferdinand Zeppelin. Alas for me, Lendle’s gravestone is removed.

The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on 06-03-1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei). It was named after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who was president of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. Filled with hydrogen, it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.

The disaster was the subject of newsreel coverage, photographs and Herbert Morrison’s recorded radio eyewitness reports from the landing field, which were broadcast the next day.[2] A variety of theories have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The publicity shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era.[3]