Kurt Agricola

Kurt Wilhelm Albert Karl Agricola was a German Army officer who rose to the rank of Generalleutnant. A native of Saxony, Agricola entered army service in 1908. During World War I he served mostly as Adjutant in various units. During the interwar era, he held numerous staff assignments and continued to rise through the armys ranks under the Nazi regime. However, his aspiring career ended abruptly in January 1939, when he was sent into retirement on political grounds because of his marriage to a Jewish woman. Reactivated again upon the start of World War II, Agricola received exclusively positions behind the front line. As rear area commander of the 2nd Army in the occupied Soviet union during 194143, Agricola brought changes in the Wehrmachts harsh occupation policies and was successful in maintaining control of his area of occupied territory from Soviet partisans. Shortly after the wars end, he was arrested by Soviet authorities, convicted of war crimes and remained in captivity for a

Kurt Agricola was born in Dbeln, then in the Kingdom of Saxony, onAugust 1889, into an Saxon family that traced its roots back in the 16th century. He was the second and youngest son of Rudolf Agricola , an officer of the Royal Saxon Army who finally rose to the rank of Oberstleutnant and became director of the Garrison Administration of Dresden, and Elisabeth, ne Drenkmann , whose family was elevated to nobility in 1901 . He had an older brother, Werner Eduard Alfred Agricola . Little is known of his early life he attended the Gymnasien in Leipzig and Dresden.

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