Czechoslovak army officer of German nationality. During the mobilization on 23.9.1938 he served as Chief of Staff of the 6th Division "KALVODA", on the basis of the results of the Munich Agreement he was discharged from the army on 8.10.1938 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the General Staff (Colonel of the General Staff). On 31.8.1939 he joined the Slovak Army and took part in the war against Poland. In 1940 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the General Staff and from 22.6.1941 he took part in the fighting with the USSR, initially as commander of Rapid Group and later Rapid Brigade. In 1942 and 1943, he served as commander of the Reinsurance Division and participated in anti-partisan operations in Ukraine. From May 1944 commander of the 2nd Divisional Area, after the outbreak of the SNP he allegedly joined the SS (in October 1944 at the rank of Standartenführer in the 16th SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS", in 1945 he was to serve as commander of the "Heimatschutz Slovakia" (Domobrana)) *** After the end of the war he lived in Germany, where he died in 1980. (according to ** he died in October 1944 as Standartenführer of the 16th SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS")
* according to the above source, Pilfousek had a funeral in 1980 in Germany ** the source mentions the death of Rudolf Pilfousek in October 1944, the source admits the possibility that some people may not have actually died *** the above sentence is an unverified translation from the source marked with an asterisk. The author of the Polish source has not verified this either
Note on the achieved rank: some sources give the achieved rank as General 2nd Class, but this is not confirmed by the military archives.
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Gentlemen, I would like to enclose a photograph of Colonel Rudolf Pilfousek, in which he is marked with the number 1. The photograph was taken in the summer of 1941, during a speech by General Ferdinad Čatlos, Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
P. S. On the basis of notes obtained from Ing. Ivan Bajtos from Košice, I specify the date of the photograph, which was taken in Sambor, Ukraine, on Friday, July 4/July 1941.
Generál Ferdinad Čatloš promlouvá k vojákům, napravo v přilbě plukovník Rudolf Pilfousek (1).
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Podľa "Věcný věstník MNO, ročník XII., číslo 32 z 22.6.1929, čl. 450 Povolání dústojníkú do I. ročníku válečné školy v r. 1929" bol kpt. Rudolf Pilfousek z del. pl. 7 na základe vykonaných skúšok prijatý do I. ročníka válečnej školy.
Zdroj: Zborník príspevkov z odborného seminára ku 110. výročiu narodenia gen. Štefana Jurecha: Štefan JURECH 1898-1945; ISBN 978-80-969375-6-1
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The tour in Sambor was filmed and part of it can be seen in the film From the Tatras to the Sea of Azov, time approx. 11:20 min.
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