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Hans Röttiger | |
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.jpg) Röttiger in 1945 | |
| Inspector of the Army | |
| In office 21 September 1957 – 15 April 1960 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Zerbel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1896-04-16)16 April 1896 Hamburg,German Empire |
| Died | 15 April 1960(1960-04-15) (aged 63) Bonn,North Rhine-Westphalia,West Germany |
| Resting place | Friedhof Ohlsdorf |
| Relations | Major of the Reserves Professor Dr. phil. Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Gustav Röttiger (father) Anna Boyer (mother) Ilse Boldt (wife) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany (to 1945) West Germany |
| Branch/service | Prussian Army German Army (Bundeswehr) |
| Years of service | 1914–1945 1956–1960 |
| Rank |  General der Panzertruppe (Wehrmacht)Generalleutnant (Bundeswehr) |
| Commands | Army Group A Army Group C |
| Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
| Awards | Iron Cross Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg) Wehrmacht Long Service Award German Cross in Gold |
Hans Röttiger (16 April 1896 – 15 April 1960) was a German career military officer who served in the militaries of four German states: theImperial Army of theGerman Empire, theReichswehr of theWeimar Republic, theWehrmacht ofNazi Germany where he served as aPanzerGeneral during theSecond World War, andBundeswehr ofWest Germany where he served as the firstInspector of the Army.
Röttiger joined thePrussian Army in 1914 and served from 1915 as aLeutnant in the 20th Artillery Regiment. After theFirst World War he served in theReichswehr as a battery officer, adjutant, and battery chief. He then served as an officer on theGeneral Staff of theWehrmacht.
At the beginning of the Second World War Röttiger was anOberstleutnant and he served from 1939 to 1940 as the Chief of Operations for VI Corps. From 1940 to 1942 he was Chief of Staff of XXXXI Corps and was then appointed the Chief of Staff of the4th Panzer Army on theEastern Front, serving atStalingrad. From 1943 to 1944 he was Chief of Staff of the4th Army and then ofArmy Group A from 1944 to 1945 underGeneraloberstJosef Harpe. He then became the Chief of Staff of Army Group C in Italy underGeneralfeldmarschallAlbert Kesselring. On 30 January 1945 he was promoted toGeneral der Panzertruppe.
Röttiger was a prisoner of war of the British and Americans from the end of the war until 1948. In 1950 he was a participant at the meeting to discuss the establishment of a new German defence force; the result of the meeting was theHimmerod memorandum.
Röttiger was accepted into theBundeswehr in 1956 at the rank ofGeneralleutnant. On 21 September 1957 he became the firstInspector of the Army and was instrumental in its early development.
Röttiger was diagnosed withcancer in the late 1950s and spent his last years undergoing treatment. In the morning of 15 April 1960 he died in office, one day before his 64th birthday.[1]
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| New title | Inspector of the Army 21 September 1957 – 15 April 1960 | Succeeded by GeneralleutnantAlfred Zerbel |
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