Dollmann, Friedrich

Dollmann, Friedrich

▪ German officer
born February 2, 1882, Würzburg, Germany
died June 28, 1944, Le Mans, France
 German army commander during World War II.

      Dollmann joined the German army in 1899 and rose to command an artillery battalion in World War I. He remained in the army after the war, holding various artillery commands and rising steadily through the ranks. He became a brigadier general in 1932, a corps commander in 1935, and a lieutenant general in 1936. In October 1939 Dollmann assumed command of the Seventh Army, which he led in the invasion of France in May–June 1940. He was promoted to general in July 1940. For the next four years, from his headquarters in Le Mans, he commanded the Seventh Army in northern France, where it had been assigned the defense of Normandy and Brittany against a possible Allied invasion launched from England.

      The half-dozen infantry divisions with which Dollmann was to defend Normandy consisted mostly of poorly equipped second-rate troops. (The best German divisions in France had been allotted to defend the Pas-de-Calais sector, which seemed a more likely site for the Allies to invade.) These overstretched units were unable to stop the Allied landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944. When American forces overran the Cotentin Peninsula, taking the port of Cherbourg on June 26, Adolf Hitler (Hitler, Adolf) threatened Dollmann and other generals with court martial for their failure to stop the Allied advance. Dollmann was deeply upset by this threat and died at his field headquarters on June 28, though it is uncertain whether he committed suicide or died naturally of a heart attack or stroke. His command was taken over by a veteran of the Eastern Front, Paul Hausser (Hausser, Paul).

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