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'''Lothar Rendulic''' ({{lang-hr|Rendulić}}; 23 October 1887 – 17 January 1971)<ref>Lothar Rendulić (1965): ''Soldat in stürzenden Reichen''. Munich: Damm, p. 73 and 292. His birth date is sometimes erroneously mentioned as 23 November 1887.</ref><ref name="Pr">Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.) (1980): ''Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, 1918–1938, Abteilung VIII, 20. Mai 1932 bis 25. Juli 1934''. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, p. 649.</ref> was an army group commander in the [[Wehrmacht]] during [[World War II]]. Rendulic was one of three [[Austrians]] who rose to the rank of ''Generaloberst'' (colonel general) in the German armed forces. The other two were [[Alexander Löhr]] and [[Erhard Raus]].
'''Lothar Rendulic''' ({{langx|hr|Rendulić}}; 23 October 1887 – 17 January 1971)<ref>Lothar Rendulić (1965): ''Soldat in stürzenden Reichen''. Munich: Damm, p. 73 and 292. His birth date is sometimes erroneously mentioned as 23 November 1887.</ref><ref name="Pr">Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.) (1980): ''Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, 1918–1938, Abteilung VIII, 20. Mai 1932 bis 25. Juli 1934''. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, p. 649.</ref> was an Austrian army group commander in the [[Wehrmacht]] during [[World War II]]. Rendulic was one of three [[Austrians]] who rose to the rank of ''Generaloberst'' (colonel general) in the German armed forces. The other two were [[Romania]]n-born [[Alexander Löhr]] and [[Erhard Raus]] from [[Moravia]].


Rendulic was tried at the [[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials]] in 1948. Though acquitted of deliberate [[scorched earth]] tactics during the [[Lapland war]], he was convicted of killing hostages in Yugoslavia at the [[Hostages Trial]] and imprisoned. After his release in 1951 he took up writing.
Rendulic was tried at the [[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials]] in 1948. Though acquitted of deliberate [[scorched earth]] tactics in Finland during the [[Lapland War]], he was convicted of killing hostages in Yugoslavia at the [[Hostages Trial]] and imprisoned. After his release in 1951 he took up writing.


==Early life and career==
==Early life and career==
Rendulic was born in 1887 in [[Austria]] into a military family of Croatian origin (Rendulić).<ref name="Lituchy2006">{{cite book|author=Barry M. Lituchy|title=Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: analyses and survivor testimonies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvAhAQAAIAAJ|date=6 July 2006|publisher=Jasenovac Research Institute|isbn=978-0-9753432-0-3|p=29}}</ref> He studied law and political science at universities in [[Vienna]] and [[Lausanne]]; in 1907, he was admitted to the [[Theresian Military Academy]] and commissioned as an officer into the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] in 1910. He served during [[World War I]] from 1914 to 1918. Returning to the [[University of Vienna]], Rendulic obtained his doctorate in law in 1920. He joined the newly formed Austrian Armed Forces and in 1932 joined the banned [[Austrian Nazi Party]]. From 1934, Rendulic served as a [[military attaché]] to France and United Kingdom. In 1936 he was put on the "temporary inactive list" because of his early membership in the Nazi Party.
Rendulic was born in 1887 in Austria into a military family of Croatian origin (Rendulić).<ref name="Lituchy2006">{{cite book|author=Barry M. Lituchy|title=Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: analyses and survivor testimonies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvAhAQAAIAAJ|date=6 July 2006|publisher=Jasenovac Research Institute|isbn=978-0-9753432-0-3|page=29}}</ref> He studied law and political science at universities in [[Vienna]] and [[Lausanne]]; in 1907, he was admitted to the [[Theresian Military Academy]] and commissioned as an officer into the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] in 1910. He served during [[World War I]] from 1914 to 1918. Returning to the [[University of Vienna]], Rendulic obtained his doctorate in law in 1920. He joined the newly formed [[Austrian Armed Forces]] and in 1932 joined the banned [[Austrian Nazi Party]]. From 1934, Rendulic served as a [[military attaché]] to France and United Kingdom. In 1936 he was put on the "temporary inactive list" because of his early membership in the Nazi Party.


==World War II==
==World War II==
Rendulic was called to the German Army, the [[Wehrmacht]], in 1938, after the [[Anschluss|annexation of Austria to Germany]]. He commanded the [[14th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|14th Infantry Division]] (23 June – 10 October 1940); the [[52nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|52nd Infantry Division]] (1940–1942); and the XXXV Corps (1942–1943), with which he participated in the [[Battle of Kursk]]. From 1943 to 1944, Rendulic commanded the [[2nd Panzer Army]] during [[World War II in Yugoslavia]]. Early in 1944, the German Chancellor [[Adolf Hitler]] ordered Rendulic to devise a plan to capture Yugoslav [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]] leader [[Josip Broz Tito]]. In the resultant [[raid on Drvar]] on 25 May 1944, German [[paratroopers]] stormed partisan headquarters in [[Drvar]] (western [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]]) looking for Tito but ultimately failed to capture him, suffering heavy casualties.
Rendulic was called to the [[German Army (1935–1945)|German Army]], as part of the [[Wehrmacht]], in 1938, after the [[Anschluss|annexation of Austria to Germany]]. He commanded the [[14th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|14th Infantry Division]] (23 June – 10 October 1940); the [[52nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|52nd Infantry Division]] (1940–1942); and the [[XXXV_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)|XXXV Corps]] (1942–1943), with which he participated in the [[Battle of Kursk]]. From 1943 to 1944, Rendulic commanded the [[2nd Panzer Army]] during [[World War II in Yugoslavia]]. Early in 1944, [[Adolf Hitler]] ordered Rendulic to devise a plan to capture [[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav partisan]] leader [[Josip Broz Tito]]. In the resultant [[Operation Rösselsprung (1944)|raid on Drvar]] on 25 May 1944, [[Fallschirmjäger|German paratroopers]] stormed partisan [[Supreme Headquarters (Yugoslav Partisans)|Supreme Headquarters]] in [[Drvar]] (western [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]]) looking for Tito but ultimately failed to capture him, suffering heavy casualties.

From June 1944, Rendulic commanded the [[20th Mountain Army (Wehrmacht)|20th Mountain Army]] and all German troops stationed in [[Finland]] and [[Norway]]. Following the war, Rendulic was accused of ordering the destruction of the Finnish town of [[Rovaniemi]] in October 1944, allegedly as revenge against the Finns for making a separate peace with the [[Soviet Union]]. In 1945, Rendulic served as the commander-in-chief of [[Army Group Courland]] cut off in the [[Courland Pocket]] on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]; [[Army Group North]] in Northern Germany; and [[Army Group Ostmark]], in Austria and Czechoslovakia.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} While commanding Army Group North and trying to prevent the loss of [[East Prussia]], he issued orders that any unwounded soldier found in a rear area outside his unit area was to be receive a [[court-martial]] on the spot and be shot.<ref name="Ziemke_Ch19">{{cite web |last1=Ziemke |first1=Earl F. |title=Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East (Chapter XIX The January Offensive) |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-EF-Defeat/USA-EF-Defeat-19.html |publisher=ibiblio |access-date=3 February 2024}}</ref> Also, a battalion commander was shot for retreating his unit.<ref name="Ziemke_Ch19"/>


From June 1944, Rendulic commanded the [[20th Mountain Army (Wehrmacht)|20th Mountain Army]] and all German troops stationed in [[Finland]] and [[Norway]]. Following the war, Rendulic was accused of ordering the destruction of the Finnish town of [[Rovaniemi]] in October 1944, allegedly as revenge against the Finns for making a separate peace with the [[Soviet Union]]. In 1945, Rendulic served as the commander-in-chief of [[Army Group Courland]] cut off in the [[Courland Pocket]] on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]; [[Army Group North]] in Northern Germany; and [[Army Group Ostmark]], in Austria and Czechoslovakia.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} On 7 May 1945, following the Soviet [[Prague Offensive]], Lothar Rendulic surrendered Army Group Ostmark to the [[71st Infantry Division (United States)|71st Infantry Division]] of the [[U.S. Army]] in Austria.<ref>[http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-71st-divisions-cavalry-reconnaissance-troop-find-the-german-army-group-south.htm 71st Division Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop find the German Army Group South]</ref>
On 7 May 1945, following the Soviet [[Prague Offensive]], Lothar Rendulic surrendered Army Group Ostmark to the [[71st Infantry Division (United States)|71st Infantry Division]] of the [[U.S. Army]] in Austria.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-71st-divisions-cavalry-reconnaissance-troop-find-the-german-army-group-south/|title=World War II: 71st Division's Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop Find the German Army Group South|date=12 June 2006|website=www.historynet.com|accessdate=5 February 2023}}</ref>


==War crimes trial==
==War crimes trial==
[[File:Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808.jpg|thumb|right|Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808]]After his surrender, Lothar Rendulic was interned and tried in the [[Hostages Trial]] at [[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg]], because of his involvement in the Wehrmacht's [[occupation of Yugoslavia|reprisals against civilians in Yugoslavia]] and the scorched earth policy in Lapland. On 19 February 1948 he was found guilty of [[war crimes]] and sentenced to twenty years in prison, although he was cleared of charges concerning the scorching of Lapland. Based upon the recommendations of the "[[Peck Panel]]", this sentence was later reduced to ten years, and on 1 February 1951 Rendulic was released from the military prison in [[Landsberg am Lech]] in [[Bavaria]].
[[File:Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808.jpg|thumb|right|Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808]]
After his surrender, Lothar Rendulic was interned and tried in the [[Hostages Trial]] at [[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg]], because of his involvement in the Wehrmacht's [[occupation of Yugoslavia|reprisals against civilians in Yugoslavia]] and the scorched earth policy in Lapland. On 19 February 1948 he was found guilty of [[war crimes]] and sentenced to twenty years in prison, although he was cleared of charges concerning the scorching of Lapland. Based upon the recommendations of the "[[Peck Panel]]", this sentence was later reduced to ten years, and on 1 February 1951 Rendulic was released from the military prison in [[Landsberg am Lech]] in [[Bavaria]].


==Later life==
After his release, he worked as an author and was involved in local politics in [[Seewalchen am Attersee]], in the [[Salzkammergut]] region of Austria. He died at [[Fraham]] near [[Eferding]], Austria, on 17 January 1971.
After his release, he worked as an author and was involved in local politics in [[Seewalchen am Attersee]], in the [[Salzkammergut]] region of Austria. He died at [[Fraham]] near [[Eferding]], Austria, on 17 January 1971.


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Lothar Rendulic
Born(1887-10-23)23 October 1887
Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary
Died17 January 1971(1971-01-17) (aged 83)
Fraham near Eferding, Austria
Allegiance Austria-Hungary
 Austria
 Nazi Germany
Service / branchAustro-Hungarian Army
Austrian Armed Forces
German Army
RankOberst (Austria)
Generaloberst (Germany)
Commands2nd Panzer Army
20th Mountain Army
Army Group Courland
Army Group North
Army Group Ostmark
Battles / warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Signature

Lothar Rendulic (Croatian: Rendulić; 23 October 1887 – 17 January 1971)[1][2] was an Austrian army group commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Rendulic was one of three Austrians who rose to the rank of Generaloberst (colonel general) in the German armed forces. The other two were Romanian-born Alexander Löhr and Erhard Raus from Moravia.

Rendulic was tried at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in 1948. Though acquitted of deliberate scorched earth tactics in Finland during the Lapland War, he was convicted of killing hostages in Yugoslavia at the Hostages Trial and imprisoned. After his release in 1951 he took up writing.

Early life and career

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Rendulic was born in 1887 in Austria into a military family of Croatian origin (Rendulić).[3] He studied law and political science at universities in Vienna and Lausanne; in 1907, he was admitted to the Theresian Military Academy and commissioned as an officer into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1910. He served during World War I from 1914 to 1918. Returning to the University of Vienna, Rendulic obtained his doctorate in law in 1920. He joined the newly formed Austrian Armed Forces and in 1932 joined the banned Austrian Nazi Party. From 1934, Rendulic served as a military attaché to France and United Kingdom. In 1936 he was put on the "temporary inactive list" because of his early membership in the Nazi Party.

World War II

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Rendulic was called to the German Army, as part of the Wehrmacht, in 1938, after the annexation of Austria to Germany. He commanded the 14th Infantry Division (23 June – 10 October 1940); the 52nd Infantry Division (1940–1942); and the XXXV Corps (1942–1943), with which he participated in the Battle of Kursk. From 1943 to 1944, Rendulic commanded the 2nd Panzer Army during World War II in Yugoslavia. Early in 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered Rendulic to devise a plan to capture Yugoslav partisan leader Josip Broz Tito. In the resultant raid on Drvar on 25 May 1944, German paratroopers stormed partisan Supreme Headquarters in Drvar (western Bosnia) looking for Tito but ultimately failed to capture him, suffering heavy casualties.

From June 1944, Rendulic commanded the 20th Mountain Army and all German troops stationed in Finland and Norway. Following the war, Rendulic was accused of ordering the destruction of the Finnish town of Rovaniemi in October 1944, allegedly as revenge against the Finns for making a separate peace with the Soviet Union. In 1945, Rendulic served as the commander-in-chief of Army Group Courland cut off in the Courland Pocket on the Eastern Front; Army Group North in Northern Germany; and Army Group Ostmark, in Austria and Czechoslovakia.[citation needed] While commanding Army Group North and trying to prevent the loss of East Prussia, he issued orders that any unwounded soldier found in a rear area outside his unit area was to be receive a court-martial on the spot and be shot.[4] Also, a battalion commander was shot for retreating his unit.[4]

On 7 May 1945, following the Soviet Prague Offensive, Lothar Rendulic surrendered Army Group Ostmark to the 71st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Austria.[5]

War crimes trial

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Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808

After his surrender, Lothar Rendulic was interned and tried in the Hostages Trial at Nuremberg, because of his involvement in the Wehrmacht's reprisals against civilians in Yugoslavia and the scorched earth policy in Lapland. On 19 February 1948 he was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to twenty years in prison, although he was cleared of charges concerning the scorching of Lapland. Based upon the recommendations of the "Peck Panel", this sentence was later reduced to ten years, and on 1 February 1951 Rendulic was released from the military prison in Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria.

Later life

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After his release, he worked as an author and was involved in local politics in Seewalchen am Attersee, in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. He died at Fraham near Eferding, Austria, on 17 January 1971.

Awards

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Works

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  • Gekämpft, gesiegt, geschlagen. (Fought, victorious, vanquished) Welsermühl Verlag, Wels and Heidelberg, 1952. 384 p.
  • Glasenbach - Nürnberg - Landsberg. Ein Soldatenschicksal nach dem Krieg (A soldier's fate after the war), Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz, 1953. 222 p.
  • Die unheimlichen Waffen : Atomraketen über uns. Lenkwaffen, Raketengeschosse, Atombomben (Monstrous weapons: atomic rockets over us. Guided weapons, rockets, atom bombs) 1957
  • Weder Krieg noch Frieden. Eine Frage an die Macht. (Neither war nor peace. A question to the powers) Welsermühl Verlag, Munich and Wels, 1961. 250 p.
  • Soldat in stürzenden Reichen. (Soldier in falling empires) Damm Verlag, Munich 1965. 483 p.
  • Grundlagen militärischer Führung, 1967
  • Aus dem Abgrund in die Gegenwart. (From the abyss to the present) Verlag Ernst Ploetz, Wolfsberg, 1969. 259 p.

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Lothar Rendulić (1965): Soldat in stürzenden Reichen. Munich: Damm, p. 73 and 292. His birth date is sometimes erroneously mentioned as 23 November 1887.
  2. ^ Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.) (1980): Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, 1918–1938, Abteilung VIII, 20. Mai 1932 bis 25. Juli 1934. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, p. 649.
  3. ^ Barry M. Lituchy (6 July 2006). Jasenovac and the Holocaust in Yugoslavia: analyses and survivor testimonies. Jasenovac Research Institute. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-9753432-0-3.
  4. ^ a b Ziemke, Earl F. "Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East (Chapter XIX The January Offensive)". ibiblio. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  5. ^ "World War II: 71st Division's Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop Find the German Army Group South". www.historynet.com. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  6. ^ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 374.
  7. ^ a b c Scherzer 2007, p. 623.
  8. ^ Patzwall 2004, p. 13.

Bibliography

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  • Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8.
  • Patzwall, Klaus D. (2004). Das Goldene Parteiabzeichen und seine Verleihungen ehrenhalber 1934–1944—Studien der Geschichte der Auszeichnungen. Band 4 [The Golden Party Badge and its Honorary Presentations 1934–1944—Studies of the History of the Awards Volume 4] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-50-2.
  • Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.
  • Thomas, Franz (1998). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2: L–Z [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2: L–Z] (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2300-9.
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Military offices
Preceded by
Generalleutnant Peter Weyer
 Commander of 14th Infantry Division
15 June 1940 – 6 October 1940 		Succeeded by
Generalleutnant Friedrich Fürst
Preceded by Commander of 52nd Infantry Division
10 October 1940 – 1 November 1942 		Succeeded by
Generalleutnant Rudolf Peschel
Preceded by
General der Artillerie Rudolf Kämpfe
 Commander of XXXV Army Corps
1 November 1942 – 5 August 1943 		Succeeded by
General der Infanterie Friedrich Wiese
Preceded by
Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model
 Commander of 2nd Panzer Army
14 August 1943 – 24 June 1944 		Succeeded by
General der Infanterie Franz Böhme
Preceded by
Generaloberst Eduard Dietl
 Commander of 20th Mountain Army
25 June 1944 – 15 January 1945 		Succeeded by
General der Gebirgstruppen Franz Böhme
Preceded by
none
 Commander of Army Group Courland
15 January 1945 – 27 January 1945 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner
 Commander of Army Group North
27 January 1945 – 12 March 1945 		Succeeded by
Generaloberst Walter Weiß
Preceded by Commander of Army Group Courland
12 March 1945 – 5 April 1945 		Succeeded by
General Carl Hilpert
Preceded by
General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler
 Commander of Army Group South
6 April 1945 – 30 April 1945 		Succeeded by
Command renamed Army Group Ostmark 30 April 1945
Preceded by
none
 Commander of Army Group Ostmark
30 April 1945 – 7 May 1945 		Succeeded by
dissolved on 8 May 1945
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