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The Führer-Begleit-Brigade in the Ardennes

by Otto Ernst Remer

(MS #B-592 and MS #B-383, 1954)

Otto Ernst Fritz Adolf Remer

Generalmajor

Date of Birth: 18 August 1912

Place of Birth: NEUBRANDENBURG/MECKLENBURG

Remer joined the Army as an officer candidate in 1933 and was assigned to the 4th regiment at as a second lieutenant of infantry in 1935; in 1938 he was promoted to first lieutenant in place in command of the company of the same regiment.

In the 1939 campaign in Poland Remer commanded the infantry howitzer company of the 478th Regiment; in the 1940 campaign in France and in the Balkan campaign of 1941 he was in command of the motorized infantry howitzer company of the 701st regiment.

In 1941 he was promoted Captain and in February 1942 was assigned as acting commander of the battalion in Russia. Later in 1942 he was given command of an armored infantry Battalion of panzer grenadier regiment Grossdeutschland, an elite unit from which panzer division gross Deutschland was formed in May of this same year.

Promoted Major in January 1943, Remer was transferred as a battalion commander to Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland in BERLIN in May 1944. It was while serving in this assignment that he played a major role in putting down the uprising which followed the attempted assassination of Hitler on July 20th 1944. In recognition of his action on this occasion, Remer was promoted to colonel, with rank dated 1 July 1944, and assigned as a combat commander RASTENBERG on 1 September 1944. Three months later he was placed in command of the Hitler escort Brigade, with which he took part in the Ardennes offensive. In February 1945 he was promoted Generalmajor and transferred to the eastern front together with his brigade, which at the same time was upgraded to the status of the panzer division. On 22 May 1945 the General was taken into custody by U.S. forces at Bamberg, Bavaria.

Previous history:

During the first part of September, 1944,

I was detained by an order of Hitler from his headquarters in Rastenburg

while on my way to the front to take over the Fusilierregiment with

the "Greater Germany" "Division. I was ordered by him to organize a

combat force, later known as the Fuehrer-Begleit-Brigade Hitler's

Escort Brigade, the purpose of which was to take over the defense of

headquarters which was located about 100 km behind the front. At

this time, it was supposed that an air landing of two to three airborne

divisions on the part of the Allies was planned against the head-

quarters. The Fuehrer Begleit-Brigade existing at that time was too

weak for such a task. Besides, my force, which was to be organized,

was to be used as a mobile operational reserve within the so-called

fortress of LOETZEN, EAST PRUSSIA for engagements outside the limits

of the fortress.

To this end, I enlarged and formed my force as follows, taking into consideration the units already available there:

1. Brigade Staff

2. Fuehrer according to Mueller, this refers to the Fuehrer Begleit-Brigade signal Battalion (primarily intended for the internal operations of the headquarters).

3. Fuehrer Air Signal Battalion (aircraft warning services).

Fuehrer antiaircraft regiment Hermann Goering, with 14 batteries ( for active air defense and ground artillery fighting ).

Fuehrer Escort Regiment with three battalions.

a. One armored personnel carrier battalion (five companies equipped with armored personnel carriers)

b. one mobile battalion (four light and one heavy company loaded on amphibian Volkswagens and Steyr command cars)

c. One heavy battalion with one tank company

one assault gun company

one antiaircraft company

one combat engineer company

one armored reconnaissance company

6. 828 Battalion, on special assignment) Both battalions con-

7. 829 Battalion, on special assignment) consisted of-rather old men (Landeschuetzen) and had originally been intended for guarding headquarters premises which could not yet been used.

8. Medical company

This unusual array was the result of the special task on which this combined-arms unit was based. The various units were

Equipped with the most modern arms and ammunition and brought up to strength with experienced front-lines soldiers.

When Hitler moved his headquarters to BERLIN during the second half of November 1944, my mission was completed. I then stayed several more days with my Brigade in the area of RASTENBERG. At the end of November, 1944, my Brigade was transported by train for commitment on the western front on orders from Hitler.

For this purpose, the brigade had to be right reorganized in great haste, with the extraction of units it further needed in the headquarters and the addition of new units.

At the beginning of December, the following elements of the Brigade listed above arrived in the area of DAUN (EIFEL):

1. Brigade staff

2. Fuehrer antiaircraft regiment with eight batteries

3. The entire Fuehrer escort regiment

4. The 828 battalion on special assignment (the 829 remained for some time in Rastenburg, and later came to the Fuehrer-Begleit brigade.

5. The Medical company

6. A Signal Company formed out of the Fuehrer Signal Battalion. Moreover, the following were added:

1) Staff of the panzer regiment

2) A panzer battalion from the “Greater Germany” panzer regiment

3) One assault gun Battalion I believe they 120 Battalion,

which it previously fought in France and had been reorganized).

4. One light artillery battalion from the 120 Regiment with two light batteries

( five guns each ) and one heavy battery.

5. One OT (Organization Todt) column and one Army supply column. Both of these already only ready for commitment up to 1/5 strength.

6. One horse-drawn bakery and butchery company.

7. One army post office in one workshop company.

All recently added elements were insufficiently equipped, in respect to personnel and material, except for weapons and tanks. This was especially true in respect to equipment with vehicles and signal equipment. The staff of the panzer Regiment did not arrive until two days before the offensive and was so defectively the symbol that it could not be used for the time being. The 828 battalion on special assignment did not receive the bicycles designated Fort until the day prior to the offensive.

The brigade was organized as follows increased assignment:

1. Brigade staff of general staff officer

2. One Signal Co. (1/2 telephone, 1/2 radio)

One military police detachment

One armored reconnaissance company

One motorcycle messenger Detachment

3. Three independent battalions with one armored personnel carrier battalion of five companies

One mobile battalion of four companies

The 828 Bicycle battalion on special assignment with four companies

4. One panzer Regiment with

One battalion of tanks parentheses four companies of Mark IV tanks (and one battalion of assault guns of four batteries)

5. One artillery Battalion

6. One antiaircraft regiment with two battalions

a. One light battalion with three batteries (self-propelled)

(One company of 20 mm, 1 bar. guns One company of 20 mm for barrel guns, one company with 37 mm guns)

b. One heavy battalion with four batteries of six guns at each of 105 mm caliber.

7. Two transportation columns

One Medical company

One bakery in butcher company

Army post office

One workshop company

8. Feldersatz replacement training battalion with 1400 men, which had been organized on orders from army. It had about 20% strength with respect to personnel and material.

The shortcomings of this organization are attributed to the fact that I received th

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