Reichert, Rudolf.

Reichert, Rudolf, born 24-01-1893 in Nebra. . Reichert’s parents were the medical officer Carl Reichert and his wife Margareta, born Averdieck. He joined the Army Service, age 19, as a Fahnenjunker in the 152^nd Infantry Regiment and promoted to Leutnant he was in the fields of the first war. Reichert was not allowed to join the new Reichswehr but reactivated on 01-05-1931 in the Army, as a Chief of the 16^th Company, 8^th Infantry Regiment. With the outbreak of World War II he was the commander of the 59^th Machine Gun Battalion until 01-02-1940, as an Oberstleutnant. Commander of the 67^th Infantry Regiment as an Oberst, to 01-03-1942 and commander of the 218^th Replacement Regiment until 01-10-1942. To 01-03-1943 he was commander of the 218^th Field Recruit Regiment and commander of the East Groups in Ukraine, until 01-09-1943. Commander of Field Command 619 to 01-03-1944 and his last command, now a Generalmajor, of the 292^nd Infantry Division  to 08-05-1945 where he succeeded Generalmajor der Infanterie, Johannes Gittner

Death and burial ground of Reichert, Rudolf

Retiring as a Generalleutnant in Bremen, Reichert died at the age of 73, on 10-03-1967 and is buried with his wife Charlotte, who died age 69, on 19-05-1967, on the cemetery Riensberg in Bremen. The youngest General leutnant in WWII, with 36, was Theodor Tolsdorff. On this cemetery the graves of Generalarzt, Wehrmacht Generalarzt 10^st  Heereskorps, Dr Rudolf Attig, U boat 521 capitän, Klaus Bargsten,  the Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur 562^th Volks Grenadier Division, Johannes Brauer,

Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur von Hamburg, Kurt Heyser, and Generalleutnant der Flakartillerie, Kommandeur Kommando XVIII Vienna, Kurt Wagner.

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