Wilhelm Adam (general)

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Wilhelm Adam
Wilhelm Adam
Born	15 September 1877 Ansbach
Died	8 April 1949 (1949-04-09) (aged 71) Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany (to 1943)
Service/branch	Heer
Years of service	1897–1943
Rank	Generaloberst
Battles/wars	World War I World War II

Wilhelm Adam (15 September 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German army officer (since 1939, a Colonel General) who served in the Bavarian Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht.

Adam was born in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907.

During World War I, Adam fought as a company leader of a Bavarian pioneer unit, but only for a short period. Towards the end of 1914, Adam became a General Staff Officer on the Staff of the Army High command. But right at the end of the war he was back to being a Bavarian engineer unit leader. With the end of the war, Adam served in various posts within the Reichswehr, from posts such as a liaison officer to the Bavarian Military Ministry and being an infantry battalion commander, in the 20th Infantry Regiment.

By Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Adam was Chief of the Troop Office and soon was commanding a division and was also at the same time commanding Military District VII. Adam retired on 31 December 1938, but he was recalled for service from 26 August 1939. After several years of being at the disposal of the army he retired in 1943 and died in 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Memoir

Adam's unpublished memoir was preserved for many years after the war in a Bavarian monastery. It is now in the Institut für Zeitgeschichte archives in Munich as file ED109/2.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and decorations

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Iron Cross of 1914
Prince Regent Luitpold Medal
Military Merit Order, 3rd class with swords (Bavaria)
Knight's Cross 2nd Class of the Albert Order with swords

References

Solomon, Robert (2002). 's+Who+in+Nazi+Germany&source=gbs_navlinks_s Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Retrieved 17 February 2006.

v t e Chief of the Troop Office (1919–1933)

Hans von Seeckt Wilhelm Heye Otto Hasse Georg Wetzell Werner von Blomberg Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord Wilhelm Adam

v t e German Colonel Generals and General Admirals of the Third Reich

Colonel General (Generaloberst) of the Army	Wilhelm Adam Hans-Jürgen von Arnim Ludwig Beck Johannes Blaskowitz Eduard Dietl Nikolaus von Falkenhorst Johannes Frießner Werner von Fritsch Friedrich Fromm Heinz Guderian Curt Haase Franz Halder Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord Josef Harpe Gotthard Heinrici Walter Heitz Carl Hilpert Erich Hoepner Karl-Adolf Hollidt Hermann Hoth Hans-Valentin Hube Erwin Jaenecke Alfred Jodl Georg Lindemann Eberhard von Mackensen Erhard Raus Georg-Hans Reinhardt Lothar Rendulic Richard Ruoff Hans von Salmuth Rudolf Schmidt Eugen Ritter von Schobert Adolf Strauß Karl Strecker Heinrich von Vietinghoff Walter Weiß Kurt Zeitzler

Colonel General (Generaloberst) of the Luftwaffe	Otto Deßloch Ulrich Grauert Hans Jeschonnek Alfred Keller Günther Korten Bruno Loerzer Alexander Löhr Günther Rüdel Kurt Student Hans-Jürgen Stumpff Ernst Udet Hubert Weise

General Admiral (Generaladmiral)	Conrad Albrecht Hermann Boehm Rolf Carls Hans-Georg von Friedeburg Oskar Kummetz Wilhelm Marschall Alfred Saalwächter Otto Schniewind Otto Schultze Walter Warzecha Karl Witzell

SS-Oberst- Gruppenführer	Kurt Daluege Josef Dietrich Paul Hausser Franz Xaver Schwarz

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 17962807 LCCN: no2009165998 ISNI: 0000 0000 7146 1016 GND: 11600679X

Persondata
Name	Adam, Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description	German general
Date of birth	15 September 1877
Place of birth	Ansbach
Date of death	8 April 1949
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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