Oskar von Niedermayer

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Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer (8 November 1885 – 25 September 1948) was a

Berlin
.

Early life and career

Oskar Niedermayer came from a Regensburg official and merchant family. On 15 July 1905 he joined the 10th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment (Erlangen) as an Officer Cadet. After being promoted to

Bushire. In February 1914 he was debriefed by Wilhelm Wassmuss who was so impressed by him that he recommended him, in August 1914, to Max von Oppenheim
as the man to lead the German Afghan mission.

Shortly before the outbreak of

Colmar von der Goltz
, that he was to commence similar work to that which he had attempted in Afghanistan amongst the Arabic tribes within Ottoman Imperial territory aimed at targeting the British Imperial authority in the Middle East. In early 1918 he was recalled to Germany, arriving in Berlin at General Headquarters on 28 March. Niedermayer was awarded for his work in the Orient the Militär-Max-Joseph-Orden and subsequently posted with the rank of Captain to the Western Front, where he took part in fighting in the Champagne and Flanders before the war ended in November 1918.

Between wars

At the end of World War I, Niedermayer was on leave and had an opportunity to recommence his academic life at the

OKW
).

World War II

On the outbreak of the War the Nazi leadership sought to utilize Niedermayer's knowledge of Slavic culture to assist with the management of occupation of Poland, however, he used personal contacts amongst the Army general staff to agitate for a more active role in the war for himself. Nevertheless, he again rejected the High Command of the Army's request on 20 February 1941. Thus Niedermayer turned down on 25 May 1941 again personally to

162nd Turkoman Division instructed. This was not a regular Division, but simply a bar, which was scheduled, in the hinterland of the Army Group in the South of Ukraine, from (Caucasian, Turkestani, Georgian, Armenian) POWs troops formed against the Soviet Union's advance in Ukraine. This task was transferred to him, because he was known in the previous years, due to many articles and memoirs as a connoisseur of the geography and peoples of the profiled regions. The division was first installed in the Ukraine, where they and Niedermayer were responsible for the training of the so-called "Ostlegionen", until February 1943, and from then to autumn of 1943 they were reinstalled in Neuhammer German Reich. There the Legion was reclassified as a Division, but it was still made of Caucasian, Georgian and Turkotartari soldiers. As commander of this division in Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, he fought against Slovene Partisans in the Battle of Kočevje, rescuing the besieged garrison in Kočevje
.

In March 1944, the

court martial sentenced him to 25 years in prison, which he was sentenced to serve in the prison of Vladimir
(German: Wladimir), where he died on 25 September 1948 in the prison's hospital.

Works

  • My return from Afghanistan, Munich 1918.
  • The inland basins of the Iranian high country,' Munich 1918.
  • Afghanistan, Leipzig 1924.
  • Under the scorching sun: Iran war experiences of the German expedition to Persia and Afghanistan, Dachau 1925.
  • Brigade Geographical consideration of the Soviet Union, Berlin 1933.
  • Soviet Russia - A geopolitical problem, Berlin 1934.
  • Brigade Policy -- An introduction and definition, Leipzig 1939.
  • Geographic Atlas of France, Berlin 1939.
  • Soldiering and Science, Hamburg 1940.
  • Brigade Geographic Atlas of Great Britain, Berlin 1940.
  • War and Science, in: The Kingdom 21 / 1941.
  • Brigade Geographic Atlas of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Berlin 1941.
  • Geography Department, Berlin 1942.

References

  1. ^ Sean McMeekin, The Berlin-Baghdad Express, p.213
  2. ^ McMeekin, p.214
  3. ^ McMeekin, p.215
  4. ^ Sean McMeekin, The Berlin-Baghdad Express, p.364
  • Seidt, Hans-Ulrich (2001), "From Palestine to the Caucasus-Oskar Niedermayer and Germany's Middle Eastern Strategy in 1918.German Studies Review, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Feb., 2001), pp. 1-18", German Studies Review, German Studies Association,
    JSTOR 1433153
    .
  • Hughes, Thomas L (2002), "The German Mission to Afghanistan, 1915-1916.German Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Oct., 2002), pp. 447-476.", German Studies Review, German Studies Association,
    ISSN 0149-7952
  • Peter March:The first World War, Germany between the long 19th century and the short 20th century, Ernst birds, Munich, 2004,
    ISBN 3-8004-1438-4 In the Band "event horizon" ( 2003) of the poet Henning Heske
    there is a cycle of poems about the turbulent life of this recent German knight.
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