Von Pannwitz Biography

In the year with the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to the Western Front from the Cadet Corps. In the year he received the title of lieutenant at the age of 16 and a half years.

He was awarded the 2nd B and 1 in the degrees with iron crosses. After the end of the war in the year, due to the reduction of the German armed forces under the Versailles Treaty, the chief lieutenant resigned with the rank of rank. He returned to the army in the year. He participated in the rank of Major, the commander of the division intelligence battalion in the invasion of Poland - he was awarded with planks to the iron crosses of both degrees of rewarding, in hostilities in France, from the year on the eastern front, a lieutenant colonel.

Successfully commanded the troops during the reflection of the Soviet offensive in the North Caucasus in winter - G., being a consistent of the revival of the Cossacks, in March in the town of Milau Mlava leads the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, formed from the Cossack units attached to the German military units of the Cossack regiment von Rentnnnet, von Yungshulz, von von von Belaruster, Yaroslav Kotulinsky, Ivan Kononov, 1st Sinersky Ataman, etc.

In June, he received the title of Major General, in April-Lieutenant General. Since October, the Cossack division formed by the Pannwitz participated in the battles in Croatia against the communist partisans Tito awarded the Croatian Order of the “King of the King of the King of the Nerriner” with a star and swords. In connection with the overlap of the corps, the command of the SS troops, on February 11, received the rank of SS Groupenfuhrer and Lieutenant General of the SS forces [2] [3].

He took his election as a great responsibility and the highest honor - from the year the title of the Supreme Ataman of the Cossack troops was worn by the heir to the Russian Imperial throne and St. Martyr Tsarevik, Tsarevich Alexy, thus, was the direct predecessor in this post by Helmut von Pannwitz. The fact of the election of the German general with an overwhelming chieftain spoke of the highest confidence of the Cossacks to his commander, who was tirelessly concerned about his Cossacks and the preservation of Cossack traditions, starting with the restoration of the historical attributes of the Cossacks, Kubanok and stripes, and ending with Cossack folklore.

Being elected by the Council of the Old Cossacks of the Donskoy, Kuban, Tersky and Siberian Cossack troops, he himself preferred to wear a Cossack uniform and on the prayers the first to kneel before the corps icon of the Mother of God of Kazan. He cared not only about the Cossacks of the corps, but also about the future of the Cossacks. So, on his initiative, a school of young Cossacks was created in the corps on the rights of the Junker School, primarily for the orphaned Cossacks.

The general himself adopted the “son of the regiment”, the young Cossack Boris Nabokov, determining him to this school. Among the Cossacks was nicknamed “Old Man Pannwitz” or “Panko” [4]. By the end of the war, the corps of more than 20,00 bayonets and sabers held positions on the southern coast of the river. Understanding the threat of the Cossacks in case of captivity by Soviet troops, von Pannwitz organizes a breakthrough of the corps in Carinthia, which was part of the British occupation zone.

In the following days, von Pannwitz visited Cossack camps in order to morally support his Cossacks and protect their interests before the British military authorities. Realizing that the war was coming to an end, Pannwitz tried to save the Cossacks from the issuance of the Soviet administration. After the allies began the transfer of thousands of Cossacks and members of their families in Lienz, von Pannwitz, who was not subject to issuing the USSR, as a German citizen declared his desire to share the fate of the Cossacks of his corps and, together with other German officers of the corps, followed them.

He headed this division, which served as the core of the future XV Cossack Cavalry Corps of the German Wehrmacht Helmut von Pannwitz, produced in June to the major general of the Wehrmacht. In the year, von Pannwitz, A. Shkuro, P. Krasnov, Sultan-Girey Klych, T. Domanov and others. An attempt to rehabilitation in the Russian Federation on April 22 was rehabilitated by the decision of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the GVP of the Russian Federation in accordance with Art.

At the same time, it is recognized that a certificate of rehabilitation von Panwitz Helmut has no legal force. ”