Adolf Herrgott
(1.10.1872 - 15.2.1957)
place of birth:  Bamberg, Oberfranken


Bavarian general staff officer who began the Great War at the rank of major. He kept very busy throughout the War serving on the staffs of several Army entities at the division, corps, and field army level. He was thus engaged on the Western Front, in Galicia, Turkey, and Palestine. Heergott followed up his Great War service by serving in the Reichsheer, working his way up to Lieutenant General. He then continued his military service with the Wehrmacht during World War II, mainly functioning as commandant in POW camps. General Herrgott died in February 1957 in Lindau on Lake Constance (Bodensee).