Adelbert Schulz
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Early Life
Adelbert Schulz graduated from high school in Berlin and worked in a bank. From 1923 to 1924 he went to college and became a police officer a year later. In 1934 he was joined the Army as a second lieutenant and in 1935 in the armed forces as a first lieutenant. He took part in the invasions to Austria and in the Sudetenland. He took part in the western campaign against France and in 1940 was made a captain. He then participated in the invasion of Belgium, attacks on French and British positions and assisted in the breakthrough to Cherbourg. He served under Erwin Rommel during this time. On the 29th of September, 1940 he received the Knight's Cross. In the segment of the army group Middle, in Klin, Schulz hit a Soviet force eight times larger than his own. Despite being that outnumbered he covered the retreat of German troops and the evacuation of a field hospital with more than 4000 wounded. For these actions he was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knights Cross on December 31, 1941. On August 6, 1943 he received the swords to the Knight's Cross and was promoted to colonel. On the 14th of December Schulz received a radio message that he would receive the diamonds to the Ritterkreuz, and was told to report to the Führer's headquarters. Schulz refused to go on the grounds that he was too busy fighting on the eastern front and had no time to go receive it. The honoring eventually awarded to him on January 9, 1944 and he was promoted to Major General and Division Commander. He was then placed in charge of Rommels former division. A short time later Adelbert Schulz was killed by an artillery shell.
Legacy
Today a German Army barracks in Munster (Örtze) is named after Schulz.
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Werner Mölders | Adolf Galland | Gordon Gollob | Hans-Joachim Marseille | Hermann Graf | Erwin Rommel | Wolfgang Lüth | Walter Nowotny | Adelbert Schulz | Hans-Ulrich Rudel | Hyazinth Graf von Strachwitz | Herbert Otto Gille | Hans-Valentin Hube | Albert Kesselring | Helmut Lent | Sepp Dietrich | Walter Model | Erich Hartmann | Hermann Balck | Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke | Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Albrecht Brandi | Ferdinand Schörner | Hasso von Manteuffel | Theodor Tolsdorff | Karl Mauss | Dietrich von Saucken | |
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