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Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and NATO.He joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1944. He was then appointed acting Chief of the General Staff for two weeks ...
Apr 5, 2024 · What's True. Gen. Adolf Heusinger was chief of army operations in the Nazi army and briefly filled in for Gen. Kurt Zeitzler, the chief of the German army's High Command.
Nov 10, 2021 · In 1955 former Wehrmacht lieutenant generals Heusinger, left, and Speidel joined the Bundeswehr and West Germany’s nascent Ministry of Defense.
Adolf Heusinger, um 1960. Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (* 4.August 1897 in Holzminden; † 30. November 1982 in Köln) war ein deutscher General und von 1957 bis 1961 der erste Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr.Heusinger diente in vier deutschen Armeen: Von 1915 bis 1918 im Heer des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, von 1920 bis 1935 in der Reichswehr, von 1935 bis 1945 in der Wehrmacht, in der er von 1937 bis 1944 die Operationsabteilung des Generalstabes im Oberkommando des Heeres führte ...
Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and NATO. He joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1944. He was then appointed acting Chief of the General Staff for two weeks in 1944 following Kurt Zeitzler's ...
Heusinger remained in the army and soon after the outbreak of the Second World War was promoted to colonel and appointed chief of operations at the OKH. When General Kurt Zeitzler became sick in June 1944, Heusinger became temporary army chief of staff and was standing next to Adolf Hitler when the bomb planted by Claus von Stauffenberg exploded on July 20, 1944.
SECRI 3 6. By the fall of 1951, Heusinger. was officially established in the office of Theodor Blank as top military advisor.In the summer of 1952 he was designated coordinator of German military defense planning. In this position he was a deft mediator between the Adenauer Government, the Socialist Party, former German officers groups, and
Dec 1, 1982 · BONN, W. Germany -- Gen. Adolf Heusinger, a veteran of both World Wars and West Germany's first armed forces chief of staff, died Tuesday, the government defense committee said. He was 85. The ...
In 446 Heusinger worked with the Eucoa Historical Division as a consultant on the organizatiou of the German Army High . Later, he served as deputy director in charge of post-war studies on German military operations of World War II.
Promotions: 1916: Leutnant 31 July 1925: Oberleutnant 1 October 1932: Hauptmann 16 March 1936: Major 20 March 1939: Oberstleutnant 1 August 1940: Oberst
