Werner Buxa

Werner Max Arthur Buxa ( born October 16, 1916 in Memel, † 20 May 1998 in Oelbronn - Duerrn ) was a German officer and author.

Life

Werner Buxa was born during the First World War, the son of a Prussian lieutenant. He was then active participant in the Second World War, in which he has won several awards.

In 1943 he married; the couple had five children: three sons, the eldest died on the day of birth, and two daughters.

The Bundeswehr was Werner Buxa last as lieutenant colonel of the reserve. From 1970 to 1973 Lieutenant Colonel R. d Buxa was commander of Battalion 752 of the Bundeswehr, the 52 was under the VBK in Karlsruhe. Buxa last lived in Baden- Württemberg and died on 20 May 1998 in Oelbronn - Duerrn.

Awards

  • Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938 with clasp Prague Castle
  • Iron Cross (1939 ) II and I. Class
  • Wound Badge (1939 ) in Black
  • Infantry Assault Badge in Silver
  • Close Combat Clasp
  • Medal winter battle in the East 1941/42,
  • German Cross in Gold on August 19, 1944
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 23, 1945
  • Ärmelband Kurland
  • 1991 Cross of Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg
  • In 1991 he received the Prussian shield, the highest award of the country team Prussia

Publications

  • " Path and fate of the 11th Infantry Division. ", 1952 [ reprint 2004, ISBN 3-89555 X -183, ISBN 978-3-89555-183-3 ]
  • " The German Infantry 1939-1945 " (with Erich von Manstein and Lieutenant General Harry Hoppe), Bad Nauheim ( Podzun -Verlag ) 1967
  • " Jackboots and steel helmet. Infantry told. ", 1971
  • "We Prussia zuhaus. That was the life between Memel and the Vistula ", together with Hans -Ulrich strain 1972 [ reprint 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0004-4 ]
  • "The fight on the Volkhov and Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. " Dorheim ( Podzun -Verlag) in 1975
  • "Pictures from East Prussia ', Augsburg ( Weltbild Verlag) 1990 ISBN 978-3-89350-098-7 [ reprint 2000, ISBN 3-89555-303-4 ]

Papers

  • " The trail led by Tawe ", in: Heimatbrief the Kreisgemeinschaft Elchniederung eV, No. 21 (1989 ), page 64
  • ( several? ) article in " The Knight's Cross ", the Association of Organ of the Order of the Knight's Cross
May 20 Sudetenland Medal
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