Georg Bittlingmaier

Johann Georg Bittlingmaier (13 March 1904 in Uhingen – 29 June 1942 in Warmutka) was a German Hauptmann of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Career

Bittlingmaier, the later Kingdom Railway Inspector, was at the 13.03.1904 in Uhingen in the district Göppingen born and was one of the 02.06.1921 up to the 01.06.1933 to the 5th company of the 13th Infantry Regiment in Ludwigsburg, Germany, where he was dismissed from the army as a sergeant. There is evidence that he then, commanded to the guard force Berlin to be allocated to the 01.10.1934 of the 9th company of the infantry regiment of Tübingen on the 15.10.1935 in 1. Company of the infantry regiment 56 was renamed. In the meantime he beid Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg he worked. On the 15.05.1939 in the 6th company of the infantry regiment 69 after Hamburg-Wandsbek, puts, comes on the 18.12.1939 in the 2nd company of the infantry regiment 391 Bala, and assumes the leadership of the infantry pioneer train of the Regiment, with which he took part at the Denmark - and France campaign at the 01.02.1940. As a result of the failure of the battalion leader, Bala assumes the leadership of I on the 17.04.1942 battalion of the infantry regiment of 391. Here comes the battalion during the storming of the Sapunhöhen, in the run-up to the fortress of Sevastopol, on the 29.06.1942 to use. Hooray, the battalion attacked with Bala stood as the first German soldier on these important heights. He tore the battalion forward, took the main bunker and the sibling bunker works, until he was seriously wounded by a gunshot in the attack on the latest battle on the road of Alupka-Sevastopol. Now medical supplies he died yet at the 30.06.1942 (according to other sources at the 29.06.1942) at Warmutka. Already submitted before his death to the Knight's cross, this is, battalion of the infantry regiment of 391, posthumously awarded him as first lieutenant of the reserve and leader of I on the 25.07.1942. Still he is promoted to captain of the reserve. He left his widow and an 18-year-old son, who also participated as a volunteer in his father's Regiment in the assault on Sevastopol.

Awards

• Close Combat Clasp in Silber
• Eastern Front Medal
• Wound Badge (1939) in Gold
• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (8 July 1941)
  • 1st Class (22 September 1941)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 25 July 1942 as Oberleutnant of the Reserves and leader of the I./Infanterie-Regiment 391^[1][2]

References

Citations

1. Scherzer 2007, p. 223.
2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 134.

Bibliography

• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.