Encircled Armeearzt and Korpsärzte of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.

 


I was able to get in contact with the family of 

Armeearzt of 6. Armee (Army doctor 6th Army)
 Generalstabarzt Dr. Otto Karl Renoldi.

and with the families of all 5 encircled Korpsärzte
(Army Korps Doctors) (all General Officers) of the 5 encircled Armeekorps at Stalingrad.2

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Korpsarzt XI Armeekorps

Generalarzt Dr. Hans Emil Paul Spiegelberg

2

Korpsarzt XIV. Panzerkorps

Generalarzt Dr. Heinrich Smend

2

Korpsarzt IV Armeekorps

Generalarzt Dr. Julius Paul Hermann Kayser

2

Korpsarzt LI. Armeekorps

Generalarzt Dr. Karl Ludwig Siegfried Arndt

2

Korpsarzt VIII. Armeekorps

Generalarzt Dr. Siegfried Johannes Oskar Müller
 
For the first time you will see pictures of all 5 Korpsärzte
trapped at Stalingrad. I think this is very unique!
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No one saw
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Generalarzt Dr. Hans Emil Paul Spiegelberg

Generalarzt Dr. Heinrich Smend

Generalarzt Dr. Julius Paul Hermann Kayser

Generalarzt Dr. Karl Ludwig Siegfried Arndt

Generalarzt Dr. Siegfried Johannes Oskar Müller


on picture before.

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Generalstabarzt Dr. Otto Karl Renoldi

 

Born : 9 October 1886 - Essen - Germany

Died : 1 April 1967 – Münich - Germany

Buried : Münich – Germany

 

Mother : Elisabeth Piekenbrock

Father : Dr. med. Wilhelm Renoldi

Married :  10 August 1939

Wife : Franziska Margarete Steber

Children : none

Military Career 

Compulsory military service : 1 October 1908

Unterarzt : 2 August 1914

Released from active duty : 12 December 1918

 

 

German Army

Oberstarzt : 1 October 1936

Generalarzt : 1 November 1940

Generalstabsarzt : 1 November 1942

Second World War

Div.Arzt 36. Infanterie-Division : 1 October 1939

Korpsarzt XXII. Armeekorps : 27 October 1939

Armeearzt 6. Armee : 20 September 1942

 

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II

KVK I

 

Fieldpost number : AOK. 6 u. Sich. Kp. bei AOK. 6 : 11333

Surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad on 24 January 1943

 

Generalarzt Dr. Hans Emil Paul Spiegelberg

 

Born : 9 November 1889 - Elbing - Germany

Died : 5 January 1975 - Lütjensee - Germany

Burried : Speyer – Germany

 

Mother : Therese Straube

Father : Gottfried Spiegelberg

Married :  27 April 1918

Wife : Charlotte Ahrens

Children : one daughter and one son

 

Military service as one year volunteer on 1 April 1909

 
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Military Career

Assistenzarzt : 18 August 1914

Oberarzt : 25 October 1916

2

German Army

Stabsarzt : 1934

Oberstabsarzt : 1935

Oberfeldarzt : 1 October 1937

Oberstarzt : 1 October 1940

Generalarzt : 1 September 1944

2

Second World War

Div. Arzt 267. Inf. Division : 26 September 1939

Korpsarzt XI Armeekorps : 17 January 1942

 

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II

KVK I

2

Surrendered to the Russians at

Stalingrad on 2 Februari 1943

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Fieldpost number Gen Kdo XI. A.K. : 10119   


On 14 October 1916 Dr. Spiegelberg became Regimentarzt with the Ulanen

Regiment von Schmidt (Pommerisches) Nr.4. 

This regiment was formed on 7 March 1815 and was garrisoned in Thorn.

Picture : Ulanen on the traininground in Fürstenwalde

 

Generalarzt Dr. Heinrich Smend

Born : 8 December 1889 – Barmen - Germany

Died as a Russian POW probably late November/

early December 1945 in POW Camp Mühlberg a.d. Elbe.

Declared death in 1965.

Buried : unknown

 

Mother : Gesine Hoon

Father :  Oswald Smend

Married : 22 April 1931

Wife : Anni Schümann

Children : one daughter and two sons

 

Entered military service voluntary on 1 April 1910

 

At the end of his military service Dr. Heinrich Smend was again assigned to the Führerreserve (Officers Replacement Pool) of VIII. Armeekorps on 16 December 1942. He left XIV. Panzerkorps and the encirclement of Stalingrad on 18 December 1942. Dr. Heinrich Smend was replaced as Korpsarzt by Oberstarzt Dr. Karl Kindermann, Divionsarzt of the 14. Panzer Division, several parts of this division, including Oberstarzt Dr. Karl Kindermann, were also trapped in the Stalingrad pocket.

Oberstarzt Dr. Karl Kindermann

In early 1945 Dr. Heinrich Smend, his wife and their three children went from Oppeln, Schlesien to Leipzig, Sachsen. In May 1945, when the war was over Dr. Heinrich Smend became a doctor in Gaschwitz near Leipzig. On 28 November 1945 he was arrested by the Soviet secret service and taken away to a Russian concentration camp in Mülhberg an der Elbe, Germany. He died there in early December 1945 and was buried in a massgrave. Dr. Heinrich Smend was officially declared dead in 1965.

The monument for the victims of the Russian concentration camp in Mülhberg an der Elbe and the

victims of the Camp when it was in German hands during World War 2.

 

  

Military career

One year volunteer : 1 April 1910

Feldhilfsarzt : 12 April 1916

Assistenzarzt : 9 January 1917

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German Army

Stabsarzt : 1 November 1919

Oberstabsarzt : 1 October 1935

Oberfeldarzt : 1 April 1936

Oberstarzt : 1 February 1939

Generalarzt : 1 October 1942

 

Second World War

Div.Arzt 5. Panzer Division : 1 September 1939

Korpsartz LI. Armeekorps : 15 December 1940

FR. OKH : 14 July 1942

Korpsarzt XIV. Panzerkorps : 5 September 1942

FR. OKH : 18 December 1942

Released from active duty : 31 July 1944

Arrested by the Russian secret service on

28 November 1945

 

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II

 

Fieldpost number :

Gen. Kdo. XIV Pz. Korps : 01876
Flew out of the Stalingrad pocket on 18 December 1942

 

 

Generalarzt Dr. Julius Paul Hermann Kayser

 

Born : 19 March 1895 – Hagen/Westfalen - Germany

Died as POW : 5 December 1948 – Oranki – Russia (camp nr 74)

Burried : Oranki - Russia

 

Mother : Caroline Selma Grave

Father : Professor Dr. Wilhelm Hermann Kayser

Married :  28 June 1930

Wife : Maria Barbara Katharina Hufnagel

Children : one daughter and two sons

 

Entered military service on 1 April 1913 as Assistenzarzt

 

  

Military career

Assistenzarzt : 1 October 1920

Stabsarzt : 1 December 1925

 2

German Army

Oberfeldarzt : 1 January 1937

Oberstarzt : 1 January 1940

Generalarzt : 1 December 1943

 

 

Second World War

Div. Arzt 206. Inf. Division : 1 September 1939

Korpsarzt IV Armeekorps : 10 January 1941

 

Awards won during World War 2 :

KVK I

KVK II

 

Fieldpost number : Gen. Kdo. IV. A.K. : 08163

Surrendered to the Russians at

Stalingrad on 22 January 1943

The Oranki Monastery where Dr Hermann
Kayser died as a POW. By that time the
monastery was not in function.


Rembrance stones for the POW's of different
nationalities who died in Oranki, camp nr 74 during their captivity.

 



Generalarzt Dr. Karl Ludwig Siegfried Arndt

 

Born : 1 April 1889 – Fürstenberg/Guben - Germany

Missing in action at Stalingrad since 23 January 1943

Burried : On the battlefield of Stalingrad

 

Mother : Margaretha Hamberg

Father :  Ludwig Arndt

Married : 17 August 1918

Wife : Rotraud von Michalkowski

Children : 2 daughters

 

Entered military service (compulsory service) : 1 April 1909

 

  

Military career

Unterarzt : 1 September 1913

Assistenzarzt : 19 Augustus 1914

Oberarzt : 25 October 1916

Stabsarzt : 1920

 

German Army

Oberstabsarzt : 1 April 1935

Oberfeldarzt : 1 January 1938

Oberstarzt : 1 November 1940

Generalarzt : 1 October 1944

Second World War

Div. Arzt 62. Inf. Division : 1 September 1939

Korpsarzt LI. Armeekorps : 14 July 1942

 2

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II

KVK I

2

Missing in action at Stalingrad since

23 January 1943. Probably he died in an attempt

to break out of the stalingrad pocket.

Karl Arndt went to the school in his village and later attended
lessons in a private school. He left the privat school to go to the
Kaiser Friedrich Realgymnasium in Neukölln. He remained at the
Gymnasium in Neukölln until 1908. 		 

 

Generalarzt Dr. Siegfried Johannes Oskar Müller

 

Born : 16 June 1897 – Zergendeh near Teheran – Persia (Iran)

Died :  6 June 1971 – Magdeburg - Germany

Burried : Stadtfriedhof - Halberstadt - Germany

 

Mother : Margareta Johanna Fabricus

Father :  Dr. Oskar Müller

Married : 21 May 1922

Wife : Hertha Johanna Helene Bischoff

Children : one daughter and two sons

 

Entered military service voluntarily on 16 January 1915

A nanny is holding Siegfried Müller on her knee. Left from her the parents

of Siegfried Müller. The picture was taken in Zergendeh, Persia during 1898.

Dr. Siegfried Müller his father served as a doctor in the Imperial German

Embassy in Persia. He also was the personal doctor of the Persian Sjah. 

  

Military career

Volunteer : 16 January 1915

Leutnant : 1918

Assistenzarzt : 1 July 1922

Oberarzt : 1 April 1925

Stabsarzt : 1 June 1927

 

German Army 

Oberstabsarzt : 1 October 1934

Oberfeldarzt : 1 April 1937

Oberstarzt : 1 June 1940

Generalarzt : 1 March 1944

Second World War

Div. Arzt 25. Inf. Division : 26 August 1939

Korpsarzt III. A.K (mot.)  : 19 September 1941

FR. OKH : 21 November 1941

Zentralarchiv für Wehrmachtmedizin : 1 January 1942

Korpsarzt VIII. Armeekorps : 8 January 1942

 

Awards won during World War 2 :

Spange E.K. II  : 4 October 1941

E.K. I : 4 October 1941

2I A.K. : 27244

Surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad on 1 February 1943

Fieldpost number Gen. Kdo. VIII A.K. : 27244

 

12 January 2012 - Research - Geert Rottiers