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	\|birth_place= Grün,<ref>Since 1. April 1935 a part of Lengenfeld (Vogtland).</ref> Amtshauptmannschaft Auerbach, [[Kingdom of Saxony]], [[German Empire]]		\|birth_place= Grün,<ref>Since 1. April 1935 a part of Lengenfeld (Vogtland).</ref> Amtshauptmannschaft Auerbach, [[Kingdom of Saxony]], [[German Empire]]
	\|death_place= Kassel, Hesse, [[West Germany]]		\|death_place= Kassel, Hesse, [[West Germany]]
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	\|caption=Oberst Bechler		\|caption=Oberst Bechler
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	\|allegiance={{flag\|German Empire}} (to 1918)<br>{{flag\|Weimar Republic}} (to 1933)<br>{{flag\|National Socialist Germany}}		\|allegiance={{flag\|German Empire}} (to 1918)<br>{{flag\|Weimar Republic}} (to 1933)<br>{{flag\|National Socialist Germany}}
	\|branch=[[File:Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png\|23px]] [[Imperial German Army]]<br/>[[File:Freikorps Flag.~~jpg~~\|23px]] [[Freikorps]]<br />[[File:War Ensign of the Reichswehr, 1919 - 1935.png\|23px]] [[Reichswehr]] <br /> [[File:Balkenkreuz.~~jpg~~\|23px]] [[German Army (Wehrmacht)\|Heer]]		\|branch=[[File:Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png\|23px]] [[Imperial German Army]]<br/>[[File:Freikorps Flag.png\|23px]] [[Freikorps]]<br />[[File:War Ensign of the Reichswehr, 1919 - 1935.png\|23px]] [[Reichswehr]] <br /> [[File:Balkenkreuz.png\|23px]] [[German Army (Wehrmacht)\|Heer]]
	\|serviceyears=1915–1945		\|serviceyears=1915–1945
	\|rank=Generalmajor		\|rank=Generalmajor
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	==Life==		==Life==
	[[File:The second from the left is later KC-holder Oberstleutnant Helmut Bechler, Infanterie-Regiment 173, 87. Infanterie-Division.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|305px\|Helmut Bechler (center) with his officers at the [[Eastern Front (World War II)]]]]		[[File:The second from the left is later KC-holder Oberstleutnant Helmut Bechler, Infanterie-Regiment 173, 87. Infanterie-Division.png\|thumb\|305px\|Helmut Bechler (center) with his officers at the [[Eastern Front (World War II)]]]]
	[[File:Bernhard Max Bechler.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|305px\|Helmut Bechler's younger brother, Bernhard Max Bechler (b. 9 February 1911 in Grün; d. 30 November 2002), to the left with his wife (∞ 7 May 1938) Margret,<ref>Margret Bechler: ''Warten auf Antwort – Ein deutsches Schicksal'', 1978 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220825134447/https://ulis-buecherecke.ch/pdf_deutscher_widerstand/ein_deutsches_schicksal.pdf second edition 1990]); Margret, née Dreykorn (1914–2002), daughter of an [[Kaiserliche Marine\|Imperial naval engineer]], was also betrayed by her husband Bernhard Max Bechler, she spent many years, after being arrested in Altenburg by the [[US-Americans]] in June 1945 and then, after they left, turned over to the Russians, until 1950 in Russian Gulags (''Speziallager'') in Germany (on 16 September 1946 judicially declared dead at the request of the husband, although he found out in June 1946, that she was alive; Bernhard married his secretary, the war widow Erna Voll on 19 September 1946) and until April 1956 in the prison Hoheneck, her ex-husband would not help her, filed for divorce in 1950, when he found out, she was still alive. She would become a teacher in Wedel near Hamburg in 1959, still searching for her two children (Heidi, born 2 October 1939, and Hans-Bernhard, born 23 July 1940), who had disappeared 1945. They were abducted by the Russians and handed over to the father 1946. She was supported by Helmut Bechler and his family. She finally saw her son again after the [[German Reunification 1990]], her daughter Heidi had died.</ref><ref>Hans Ehlert / Armin Wagner: ''Genosse General! – Die Militärelite der DDR in biografischen Skizzen'', 2010</ref> was an "unconditional [[National Socialist]]" and Major of the Wehrmacht, decorated with the German Cross in Gold.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220824220857/https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/1816/Bechler-Bernhard.htm Bechler, Bernhard], Traces of War</ref> He was taken prisoner at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] on 27 January 1943 as commander of the I. Battalion/Grenadier-Regiment 29, became a traitor of his comrades in a Russian [[Gulag]] (member of the "National Committee for a Free Germany") and then labeled himself an "[[anti-fascist]]". He made his career in the [[GDR]] and would become a ''Generalmajor'' of the ''Volkspolizei''. The brothers detested each other, Helmut remained a passionate [[anti-communist]].]]		[[File:Bernhard Max Bechler.png\|thumb\|305px\|Helmut Bechler's younger brother, Bernhard Max Bechler (b. 9 February 1911 in Grün; d. 30 November 2002), to the left with his wife (∞ 7 May 1938) Margret,<ref>Margret Bechler: ''Warten auf Antwort – Ein deutsches Schicksal'', 1978 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220825134447/https://ulis-buecherecke.ch/pdf_deutscher_widerstand/ein_deutsches_schicksal.pdf second edition 1990]); Margret, née Dreykorn (1914–2002), daughter of an [[Kaiserliche Marine\|Imperial naval engineer]], was also betrayed by her husband Bernhard Max Bechler, she spent many years, after being arrested in Altenburg by the [[US-Americans]] in June 1945 and then, after they left, turned over to the Russians, until 1950 in Russian Gulags (''Speziallager'') in Germany (on 16 September 1946 judicially declared dead at the request of the husband, although he found out in June 1946, that she was alive; Bernhard married his secretary, the war widow Erna Voll on 19 September 1946) and until April 1956 in the prison Hoheneck, her ex-husband would not help her, filed for divorce in 1950, when he found out, she was still alive. She would become a teacher in Wedel near Hamburg in 1959, still searching for her two children (Heidi, born 2 October 1939, and Hans-Bernhard, born 23 July 1940), who had disappeared 1945. They were abducted by the Russians and handed over to the father 1946. She was supported by Helmut Bechler and his family. She finally saw her son again after the [[German Reunification 1990]], her daughter Heidi had died.</ref><ref>Hans Ehlert / Armin Wagner: ''Genosse General! – Die Militärelite der DDR in biografischen Skizzen'', 2010</ref> was an "unconditional [[National Socialist]]" and Major of the Wehrmacht, decorated with the German Cross in Gold.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220824220857/https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/1816/Bechler-Bernhard.htm Bechler, Bernhard], Traces of War</ref> He was taken prisoner at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] on 27 January 1943 as commander of the I. Battalion/Grenadier-Regiment 29, became a traitor of his comrades in a Russian [[Gulag]] (member of the "National Committee for a Free Germany") and then labeled himself an "[[anti-fascist]]". He made his career in the [[GDR]] and would become a ''Generalmajor'' of the ''Volkspolizei''. The brothers detested each other, Helmut remained a passionate [[anti-communist]].]]
	[[File:Helmut Bechler (grave, Friedhof Niederzwehren in Kassel).JPG\|thumb\|305px\|Family grave]]		[[File:Helmut Bechler (grave, Friedhof Niederzwehren in Kassel).JPG\|thumb\|305px\|Family grave]]
	* 1898 Born as son of Bernhard Max Rudolf Bechler (1869–1946), factory director;<ref>''Vorstandsvorsitzender der Vogtländischen Carbonisieranstalt AG''</ref>		* 1898 Born as son of Bernhard Max Rudolf Bechler (1869–1946), factory director;<ref>''Vorstandsvorsitzender der Vogtländischen Carbonisieranstalt AG''</ref>

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