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Ludwig Kübler
Born	(1889-09-02)2 September 1889 Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	18 August 1947(1947-08-18) (aged 57) Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany
Service / branch	Heer
Years of service	1908–45
Rank	General der Gebirgstruppe
Commands	98th Mountain Regiment 1st Mountain Division XXXXIX Mountain Corps 4th Army LXXXXVII Army Corps z.b.V.
Battles / wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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General Ludwig Kübler (2 September 1889 – 18 August 1947) was a German General of the Mountain Troops during World War II who was executed as a war criminal in Yugoslavia.

Career

Ludwig Kübler joined the army in 1908 and served during World War I, earning the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class in 1914. After the war he was retained in the Reichswehr. He was then a staff officer in the Army Department (T1) of Truppenamt for a few years. From 1925–1926 he was at the General Staff of Group Command 1 in Berlin. In the autumn of 1933 he was on the staff of the 7th Division of the Reichswehr in Munich and on 1 October 1934 was appointed the Chief of Staff of the VII Army Corps. On 1 June 1935 he was commander of the Mountain Brigade.

At the start of World War II he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his role in the Polish campaign. Then on 1 December 1939 he was promoted to Generalleutnant. As commanding general of the new XXXXIX Mountain Army Corps he took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. He was then appointed commander of the 4th Army. His performance did not meet Adolf Hitler's expectations and he was moved to the leadership reserve and did not receive another command until the summer of 1943 and a year later he was appointed commander of LXXXXVII Army Corps. Shortly before the end of the war he was wounded and captured in Yugoslavia, where together with his successor General Hans von Hößlin he was sentenced to death in 1947 by a Yugoslav court. He was hanged in Ljubljana on 18 August 1947, like his younger brother, General Joseph Kübler (1896–1947), who was hanged in Belgrade on 26 February 1947.

In May 1964 the barracks in Mittenwald in Bavaria were named after General Kübler. In November 1995 Volker Rühe, then the German Minister of Defence, changed the name "General-Kübler-Kaserne" into "Karwendel-Kaserne".

Commands

• 1935 – 1936 98th Mountain Regiment
• 1936 – 1938 Mountain Brigade
• 1938 – 1940 1st Mountain Division (Poland and France)
• 1940 – 1941 XXXXIX Mountain Corps (Eastern Front)
• 1941 – 1942 4th Army (Eastern Front)
• 1942 – 1945 LXXXVII Mountain Corps (Yugoslavia)

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914)
  • 2nd Class (16 September 1914)
  • 1st Class (17 November 1914)
• Wound Badge (1914)
  • in Black (7 June 1918)
• Military Merit Order, 4th class with Swords and Crown (Bavaria)
• Saxon Knight's Cross, 2nd Class of the Albert Order with Swords (12 May 1916)
• Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (15 December 1934)
• Wehrmacht Long Service Award, 4th to 1st Class
• Anschluss Medal (21 November 1938)
• Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (15 September 1939)
  • 1st Class (20 September 1939)
• Eastern Front Medal (23 August 1942)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 October 1939 as Generalmajor and commander of 1. Gebirgs-Division

References

Citations

1. ^ Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 469.
2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 277.
3. Scherzer 2007, p. 480.

Bibliography

• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
• Thomas, Franz; Wegmann, Günter (1993). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Teil VI: Die Gebirgstruppe Band 1: A–K (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7648-2430-3. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

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• People from Munich
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• Generals of Mountain Troops
• German military personnel of World War I
• Reichswehr personnel
• Executed military leaders
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• Knights 2nd class of the Albert Order