Hans Röttiger

Reichsheer Army (Wehrmacht) Hans Röttiger (16 April 1896 – 15 April 1960) was a German career military officer who served in the militaries of four German states: the Imperial Army of the German Empire, the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany where he served as a Panzer General during the Second World War, and Bundeswehr of West Germany where he served as the first Inspector of the Army.

Röttiger joined the Prussian Army in 1914 and served from 1915 as a Leutnant in the 20th Artillery Regiment.

At the beginning of the Second World War Röttiger was an Oberstleutnant and he served from 1939 to 1940 as the Chief of Operations for VI Corps.

He then became the Chief of Staff of Army Group C in Italy under Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring.

Röttiger was diagnosed with cancer in the late 1950s and spent his last years undergoing treatment.