Tittel, Hermann Karl Richard Eugen, born 12-11-1888 in Wallendorf,
entered the Army Service, age 19, on 27-02-1908 as a Fahnenjunker. The son of a glass factory owner came to the Brandenburgisches Fußartillerie-Regiment „General-Feldzeugmeister“ Nr. 3
. After finishing the war school in Anklam, he on 19-08-1909 was promoted to Leutnant. He married Liesel Kranfser in the spring of 1911 and from 01-10-1912 he was ordered to the Militärtechnischen Akademie
. On 01-10-1913 assigned as Regiment Adjutant of his Brandenburgisches Fußartillerie-Regiment „General-Feldzeugmeister“ Nr. 3
. He was in the fields of the first war with his Regiment and received the Iron Cross second class end October 1914. From 27-01-1915 promoted to the Staff with the General der Fußartillerie 4. He received the Iron Cross first class
in the spring of 1916 and promoted now to Hauptmann. He ended the war in the Staff of the VII Army Corps and accepted as a Hauptmann in the new 100.000 men Reichswehr
. With the outbreak of World War II he as an Oberst was the commander of the 69th Infantry Division and on the Western front. In July 1944 the 69th Infantry Division
was transferred south to Army Group Centre, under Field Marshal Walter Model















Tittel was appointed as commander of this division on 11-10-1941 and transferred to Russia for the battles in the North of Russia.
He lost this command again in the summer of 1943 and immediately assigned as commander of the LXX Army Corps. His headquarters was in Lillestrom east of Oslo and he became a General der Infanterie on 01-09-1943 at the same time commanding General of the LXX Army Corps. His Army Corps was put into action in the south of Norway. As his first wife Liesel Kranfser died he remarried and received the German Cross in Gold on 09-03-1945. He led his Army Corps till the end of the war and surrendered.


Death and burial ground of Tittel, Hermann Karl Richard Eugen.



He was released from captivity in the spring of 1948 and retiring in Münster he at the age of 70 died on 22-08-1959. Hermann Tittel is buried on the Waldfriedhof of Lauheide but his gravestone is alas removed and the spot neglected seriously. His neighbour there is the General of the Artillerie, Commanding General of Panzer Corps “Grossdeutschland”
, Georg Jauer


