reserve

[joe t]

What is fuhrer reserve?

[Larry deZeng]

What is fuhrer reserve?

A pool or temporary parking area for officers between assignments. When an officer was relieved of duty for normal rotational purposes, yet there was no immediate need for him in another position or there was a routine delay in determining his next assignment, his orders would reassignment him to the Führer Reserve OKH or Führer Reserve RLM/Ob.d.L., etc. Very often, the same order would stipulate that he was then to be sent temporarily (kommandierende) to some assignment or position for 30, 60 or 90 days or variations thereof. So, he would be officially assigned to the Führer Reserve OKH with TDY to Amtsgruppe 6 des Heerespersonalamt. If the Chef of Amtsgruppe 6 liked the guy and wanted to keep him permanently on his staff, then the next set of orders you would see would be a reassignment from temporary TDY status to a permanent assignment with Amtsgruppe 6 des Heerespersonalamt.

So the Führer Reserve was a (replacement) pool where officers went between permanent assignments. Some were in the pool for a few days or a week, while others might be in it for a year or more. Many senior generals were even sent home until they were called back to active duty with a new permanent assignment.

--BHS1956

[joe t]

Thank you.

I have paperwork for a oberstlt of signal abt 423.HE was the signal officer for XXX111 ak.In 1944 he was in the fuhrer reserve.Trough letters it seems he was getting an infantry command.But the papperwork stops there.It has a report of what his troops did in rhzev as an alarm unit.