Rudolf Max Wilhelm Flinzer
Date of Birth: 09.11.1889 - Stollberg-Chemnitz, Sachsen (German Empire)
Date of Death: 17.06.1976 - Opladen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (West Germany)
Promotions:
01.03.1909 Fähnrich
21.01.1910 Leutnant
00.00.1914 Oberleutnant
02.08.1917 Hauptmann
26.08.1939 Major der Reserve
01.06.1942 Oberstleutnant der Reserve
01.09.1943 Oberst der Reserve
Career:
01.03.1909 Fähnrich in Infanterie-Regiment 105
00.00.1914 - 00.00.1918 Zugführer, Kompanieführer und Regiment-Adjutant in World War I
00.00.1918 Stabsoffizier 45. Landwehr-Division
25.08.1919 Discharged from the military
00.00.192_ studied chemistry at the technischen Hochschule Dresden Chemie
00.00.1927 Graduated as Dr.Ing. and then went into the chemical industry
00.00.1936 Leiter Landwehr-Offiziersgemeinschaft Köln / Heeresdienststelle 9
00.08.1939 Renamed as 211. Infanterie-Division
00.08.1939 Kommandeur I.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 317
00.06.1942 Kommandeur Feldausbildungs-Bataillon 211
28.01.1943 Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 317
29.09.1944 Kommandant Seefestung Hoek van Holland
Awards and Decorations:
18.09.1914 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
04.12.1914 Ritterkreuz des königlichen Sächsen Militär St. Heinrichs-Orden
10.06.1915 Sachsen Landwehr-Dienstauszeichnung II.Klasse
15.08.1915 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
24.04.1917 Sachsen Landwehr-Dienstauszeichnung I.Klasse mit Schwertern
05.10.1935 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer 1914/1918
21.05.1940 1939 spange zum 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
00.00.1941 Allgemeines-Sturmabzeichen in Silber
06.06.1942 1939 spange zum 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
06.06.1942 Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber
27.08.1942 Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille)
06.04.1943 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes #1669, as Oberstleutnant der Reserve and Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 317 / 211.Infanterie-Division. During the fighting for the Orel salient in early 1943 Oberstleutnant Flinzer and his troops fought around Wydrowka, Pustynka, Buda-Monastyrskaja and Kommuna-Bolschewik. Here they distinguished themselves greatly in the defense. In particular, on the 22.02.1943, they withstood a major Soviet offensive in the so-called “Hell of Liwadija”. Flinzer would receive the Ritterkreuz for his outstanding leadership during this time.
27.01.1944 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
05.09.1944 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub #575, as Oberst der Reserve and Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 317 / 211.Infanterie-Division. During the first defensive battle of Vitebsk (10.-16.11.1943) Oberst Flinzer and his men carried out 10 of their own attacks, repelled 62 major enemy attacks and destroyed 29 tanks. Oberst Flinzer would continue to distinguish himself in the Regiment’s battles in the Pripet marshes, the retreat to the Bug and during the fighting in Eastern Poland (which began on the 22.07.1944). During this latter stage of fighting a new defensive line near Sycyna and Styrzyniec (south of the Miedzyrzec-Biala Podlaska road) was held by the Regiment for three days against all hostile attacks, even though the enemy had managed to bypass it to the north and south. Flinzer would receive the Eichenlaub for the sum of his achievements.
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Rudolf Flinzer joined the 105th Infantry Regiment on March 1, 1909 as an ensign, was promoted to lieutenant on January 21, 1910 and fought in World War I as a platoon commander, company commander and regimental adjutant. On August 2, 1917 he was promoted to captain and served on the staff of the 45th Landwehr Division at the end of the war. On August 25, 1919 he was discharged from the army and then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. Ing. and then went into the chemical industry. In 1936 he became head of the Landwehr officers' community in Cologne at Army Office 9, which developed into the 211th Infantry Division in August 1939. Promoted to major on August 26, 1939, he became commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment 317. In May 1940 he took part in the French campaign with his battalion and came to Russia in early 1942. On June 1, 1942, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the reserve, became commander of the 211th Field Training Battalion and took command of the 317th Grenadier Regiment on January 28, 1943. He distinguished himself in the heavy defensive fighting south of Orel in early 1943 The regiment was particularly distinguished, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross on April 6, 1943. Promoted to colonel in the reserve on September 1, 1943, he earned the German Cross in Gold during retreat fighting in autumn and winter 1943, which he was awarded on January 27, 1944. After the Russian summer offensive in 1944, he led his regiment during heavy defensive fighting, for which he was awarded the Oak Leaves on September 5, 1944. From September 29, 1944 he was commander of the sea fortress Hoek van Holland, where he was taken prisoner at the end of the war.
Source :
ECPAD Archive
https://alchetron.com/Rudolf-Flinzer
https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/F/FlinzerR.htm
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/4471/Flinzer-DrIng-Rudolf.htm
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