Gerhard Schacht

Gerhard Schacht ( born April 6, 1916 in Berlin Steglitz b, . † February 7, 1972 in Dortmund) was a German military attaché, Colonel and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Life

In the summer of 1935, Schacht took up the study of engineering at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. There he became in 1935 a member of the fraternity Franconia Berlin ( 1950, Berlin fraternity of Märker ). His studies he broke off to pursue a military career in the Air Force. In November 1939, he was a paratrooper Special Forces in Hildesheim, to attend the 10 May 1940 at the storming of the Belgian Fort Eben -Emael as a lieutenant in the paratroopers assault group "Concrete". For this performance he received on May 12, 1940, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with his promotion to lieutenant. Later in the war, he took part in the Airborne Battle of Crete, command Things to Do in North Africa, the Battle of Monte Cassino and in the liberation of Mussolini. In early 1945, he was promoted to Major and placed in the General Staff. End of the war he was assigned as commander of a paratroop regiment on the Eastern Front.

After the war, he was first a clerk in Munich, to enter after the founding of the Bundeswehr in June 1956 in this case a paratrooper unit in Bavaria. In 1962, he was commanded to build the airborne troops in Koblenz and was from September 1968 military attaché at the German embassy in Tehran ( Iran). In the fall of 1970 was dismissed from this post, promoted to colonel and used as deputy commander of the 1st Parachute Division in Bruchsal. On 1 January 1972, he left the military. Shaft was buried with military honors.

Family

He married Rolande shaft, the two had no children.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1939 ) II and I. Class
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on May 12, 1940
• German Cross in Gold on December 21, 1944