 ORACION
A MI PATRIA
Colombia Patria Mìa, te llevo
con amor en mi corazòn. Creo en tu destino y espero verte siempre
grande, respetada y libre.
En ti amo todo lo que me es querido,
tus glorias, tu hermosura, mi hogar, las tumbas de mis mayores, mis creencias,
el fruto de mis esfuerzos, la realizaciòn de mis sueños.
Ser soldado tuyo es la mayor de mis glorias; mi ambiciòn mas grande
es la de llevar con honor el tìtulo de COLOMBIANO y llegado el caso,
morir por defenderte. |
Lorenzo Urueña Escovar
(q.e.p.d.)
 Una
persona solo muere, cuando no hay nadie que la recuerde.
Esta es mi padre, la persona, sin
la cual, el Editor General de Panzertruppen, no seria hoy quien es y como
dice la hija de Bernardo Romero en su libro: "pense que la vida es muy
corta y que solo me dio pocos años con mi padre. Hoy lo amo mas
que nunca, lo extraño mucho. Sin embargo, gracias a que ya no lo
tengo, reconozco que lo tuve."
Nace en Noviembre 15 de 1920 en
Venadillo, pueblo del Departamento del Tolima, ubicado en la Republica
de Colombia, sus padres Lorenzo Urueña Hernandez quien estuvo en
la guerra de los Mil Dias y Margarita Escovar Barreto; estudia la primaria
en el Colegio San Luis Gonzaga y el bachillerato en el Colegio San
Simon de la ciudad de Ibague Tolima, del que posteriormente sera profesor
y rector; su carrera de Medicina en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
de la cual egresa en 1945.
Se vincula a la politica en el Departamento
del Tolima y es elegido Diputado a la Asamblea en 1974 y postulado al Senado
de la Republica, cargo que al final no acepta, años mas tarde desempeña
el cargo de Secretario de Salud del Departamento.
En su vida privada es miembro del
Club de Leones, Club Rotario de Ibague, Fundador de los Clubes Rotaract
e Interac de esta misma institucion, varias veces Presidente del Club Campestre
de Ibague y Miembro de la Logia Masonica Estrella del Combeima donde
obtiene el Grado 33 como Soberano Gran Inspector General, fundador de la
Logia Masonica Luis Ernesto Bonilla que recibe su carta constitutiva de
la Gran Logia de Colombia el 24 de Junio de 1978 y hace parte por varios
años del Supremo Consejo para Colombia. Director del Hospital Antituberculoso
San Francisco y del Hospital Federico Lleras en la ciudad de Ibague. En
la actualidad existe un barrio en la ciudad de Venadillo, su tierra natal,
que lleva su nombre como un reconocimiento de su pueblo al permanente apoyo
que recibieron de el sus conciudadanos.
Muere el 18 de Julio de 1986 en
la ciudad de Ibague, rodeado del cariño de sus hijos y de miles
de personas de todas las clases sociales, que a lo largo de sus años
como medico recibieron no solo sus servicios, sino un permanente apoyo
en la vida.
Es, segun lo recuerdo yo, Gustavo,
una persona de quien se puede decir que era "un hombre bueno", el cual
considero que es el mayor titulo que pueda asignarse a un individuo en
estos tiempos de fractura de nuestra sociedad. |
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| POCKET
BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL SCHEER |
 Admiral
Scheer was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship)
which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II.
The vessel was named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer, German commander in
the Battle of Jutland. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard
in Wilhelmshaven in June 1931 and completed by November 1934. Originally
classified as an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February
1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as
heavy cruisers. The ship was nominally under the 10,000 long tons (10,000
t) limitation on warship size imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, though
with a full load displacement of 15,180 long tons (15,420 t), she significantly
exceeded it. Armed with six 28 cm (11 in) guns in two triple gun turrets,
Admiral Scheer and her sisters were designed to outgun any cruiser fast
enough to catch them. Their top speed of 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) left only
a handful of ships in the Anglo-French navies able to catch them and powerful
enough to sink them. Admiral Scheer saw heavy service with the German Navy,
including a deployment to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, where she
bombarded the port of Almería. Her first operation during World
War II was a commerce raiding operation into the southern Atlantic Ocean;
she also made a brief foray into the Indian Ocean. During the operation,
she sank 113,223 gross register tons (GRT) of shipping, making her the
most successful capital ship surface raider of the war. Following her return
to Germany, she was deployed to northern Norway to interdict shipping to
the Soviet Union. She was part of the abortive attack on Convoy PQ-17 and
conducted Operation Wunderland, a sortie into the Kara Sea. After returning
to Germany at the end of 1942, the ship served as a training ship until
the end of 1944, when she was used to support ground operations against
the Soviet Army. She was sunk by British bombers on 9 April 1945 and partially
scrapped; the remainder of the wreck lies buried beneath a quay.  |
| 1°
SS DIVISION PANZER "LEIBSTANDARTE ADOLF HITLER" |
 Desde
los principios de la constitución del Partido Nazi NSDAP, antes
de tomarse el poder, en sus años de formación, la élite
del Partido conformo unidades especiales cuyo único propósito
es la guarda y protección de
sus líderes. La primera de ellas se constituyo cuando
los hombres de la Compañía
19 de Morteros, bajo el mando de Ernst Rohm, actúa como un cuerpo
de guardia en las primeras reuniones de Adolf Hitler y otros miembros del
Partido.
Este primer grupo de hombres se
constituyo como las SA, las cuales pronto empezaron a crecer. Desde sus
inicios Adolf Hitler las vio mas como un problema, que como una herramienta
útil. A medida que fueron creciendo Hitler ordeno la formación
de una unidad especial de seguidores leales destinada a proteger a los
líderes de la NSDAP. Esta unidad fue constituida bajo el mando de
Julius Schreck y Joseph Berchtold.
Sin embargo a pesar de estar separada
en sus funciones, seguía bajo el control de las SA. Para esta época
se determino utilizar como insignia de esta unidad la Calavera o Totenkopf,
sobre la gorra de los hombres, además de otra serie de elementos
exclusivos de esta organización. El 9 de Noviembre de 1923 esta
unidad, además de las SA y otras de la NSDAP tomo parte en el fracasado
Putsch de Munich contra la República de Weimar.Las SA continuaron
existiendo bajo el nombre de Frontbahn, bajo el lide-razgo de Ernst Rohm.
Bajo el mando de Rohm, las SA empezaron a crecer sustancialmente, desde
2.000 en Noviembre de 1923 a 30.000 en muy corto tiempo. |
| DAK
- DEUTSCHES AFRIKA KORPS |
 El
1 de Febrero de 1941 un oficial del mando supremo comunica a Rommel la
orden para que suspenda su permiso y se presente ante el Mariscal de Campo
von Brauchitsch y el Fuhrer. El 6 de Febrero debido a la critica situacion
de los italianos en Africa del Norte, se decide enviar dos divisiones Panzer
alemanas a Libia, una ligera y otra completa y el Teniente General Erwin
Rommel es asignado por Hitler como comandante de las fuerzas alemanes que
serán enviadas a Africa a fin de ayudar a los italianos que están
siendo castigados duramente por los británicos, para ello se le
asigna el mando de una división ligera y la 15° División
Panzer con lo cual se conformara el legendario Afrikakorps. El 12 de Febrero,
Rommel despega de Catania despues de haber conferenciado con el General
Guzzoni, Jefe de Estado Mayor en Roma; llegando Rommel a Trípoli
en la tarde y asume el mando de las fuerzas ya destacadas; el 13 se encuentra
con el General Gariboldi, poniendo al tanto de su mision, mostrandole el
lineas generales el plan de defensa pensado para la Tripolitania, con el
apoyo de la Luftwaffe y la concentracion de todas las tropas disponibles
para la defensa del Sirte. En la tarde del mismo dia, y en compañia
de su ayudante el Coronel Schmundt, realiza a bordo de un Heinkel He 111
un reconocimiento directo en el frente y tomando las primeras disposiciones
para iniciar su ofensiv |
| U-BOATWAFFE
- EL ARMA SUBMARINA ALEMANA |
 El
control administrativo de la Marina Imperial del Kaiser caía bajo
la responsabilidad del Departamento Naval Imperial o RMA (Reichs Marine
Amt) y el control del arma submarina fue colocado en manos del Inspectorado
del Arma de Torpedo o botes torpederos, conformado en 1899 bajo el mando
del Contraalmirante Zeye, quien posteriormente alcanzo el grado de Vicealmirante
y a su muerte en 1909 fue reemplazado por el Contraalmirante Lanz. Gran
parte del desarrollo del arma submarina alemana fue realizado por empresas
privadas con el ánimo de ventas a la Marina Imperial o para exportación.
A pesar del prejuicio existente contra los submarinos dentro de la jerarquía
naval, cualquier desarrollo naval que tuviera algún potencial de
aplicación militar era supervisado con gran cuidado por el RMA.
En 1904 se unió al Inspectorado el ingeniero naval Gustav Berling
con el encargo de velar por el desarrollo del arma submarina. El U-1 el
primer submarino asignado a la Marina Imperial, no fue construido o aprobado
en su concepto oficialmente, aunque desarrollado con el fin de cumplir
con demandas de la Marina para ser vendido a la Marina rusa. El primer
submarino incorporado oficialmente a la Marina Imperial desarrollado con
base en la experiencia del U-1, fue en U-2, construido por los astilleros
Kaiserliche Werft en 1908 bajo la supervisión de Berling y del Inspectorado
del Arma de Torpedo. En Diciembre de 1913 se aprobó la conformación
del Inspectorado de U-Boat como arma independiente y en Marzo de 1914 fue
establecida su base en Kiel con el Kapitan sur See Nordmann como Jefe de
Estado para los U-Boat. |
| HISTORY
OF THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF 1657-1945 |
 The
Prussian General Staff is a product of a specific phase of European development.
It grew out of that combination of absolute monarchy with standing armies
which became so typical a phenomenon after the Thirty Years' War. In more
than one instance, where that combination occurred, the military element
was integral to the whole structure of the State. In the Spanish Empire
it was the paid professional Army that held that scattered and heterogeneous
thing together. In the Habsburg dominions with their diversified mixture
of peoples the Army played a similar part. Nowhere did this hold more true
than in that composite state formed by the union of the Electorate of Brandenburg
with the secularized inheritance of an East Prussian religious order. Writing
towards the end of the eighteenth century, the military historian von Behrenhorst
declared that the Prussian monarchy was not a country that had an army,
but an Army that had a country which it used as a billeting area, and Mirabeau
once made a somewhat similar remark. There is more than a little truth
in these observations; the history of Prussia is essentially the history
of the Prussian Army. During the Thirty Years' War the speculative traffic
in mercenaries had developed into something like a major industry. It;
was by bringing its bigger practitioners under his control, and also by
forcing the recalcitrant nobility to do service to their sovereign, that
the Great Elector laid the foundations of a standing Prussian force—and,
with it, of Prussia. |
| THE
PRUSSIAN AND GERMAN ARMY |
Prussia
Prussia (German: Preußen);
was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of
Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of
Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an
unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history
of Germany, with its capital in Berlin after 1451. By 1871, the smaller
German states were merged with Prussia, resulting in the creation of the
German Empire. In November 1918 the monarchies were abolished and the nobility
lost its political power. Prussia was effectively abolished in 1932, and
officially abolished in 1947.
The name Prussia derives from the
Old Prussians. In the 13th century, "Old Prussia" was conquered by German
crusaders, the Teutonic Knights. In 1308 Teutonic Knights conquered the
formerly Polish region of Pomerelia with Gda?sk (Danzig). Their monastic
state was mostly Germanized through immigration from central and western
Germany and in the south it was Polonized by settlers from Masovia. After
the Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, Prussia was split into the western Royal
Prussia, a province of Poland, and the eastern part, since 1525 called
Duchy of Prussia, a fief of the Crown of Poland up to 1657. The union of
Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1618 led to the proclamation of
the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. Prussia was a great power since its foundation
as a kingdom. |
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| LECTURAS
RECOMENDADAS |
| El Federalismo |
| The Evolution of the Irregular War |
| La Crisis del Estado de Bienestar |
| Mi Lucha Adolf Hitler |
| Batallones Pesados Alemanes WWII |
| Testamento Politico de Adolf Hitler |
| Destino Colombia |
| The Totalitariam Tentation |
| Fronteras de la Economia del Desarrollo |
| Memorias de Zhukov Parte I |
| If not Civilizations, What ? |
| El Escandalo Modigliani |
| After the Blitzkrieg |
| VIDEOS
MILITARES |
| Videos
Militares II Guerra Mundial |
| TANKS
IN WWI |
 THE
following work is the story of a great and unique adventure as heroic as
the exploits of the Argonauts of old, and, though the time perhaps has
not yet arrived wherein to judge the part played by tanks in the Great
War, I feel that, whatever may be the insight and judgment of the eventual
historian of the British Tank Corps, he will probably lack that essential
ingredient of all true history—the witnessing of the events concerning
which he relates.
I, the writer of this book, first
set eyes on a tank towards the end of August 1916. At this time I little
thought that I should eventually be honored by becoming the Chief General
Staff Officer of the Tank Corps, for a period extending from December 1916
to August 1918. The time spent during this long connection with the greatest
military invention of the Great War, it is hoped, has not been altogether
wasted, and the story here set forth represents my appreciation of having
been selected to fill so intensely interesting an appointment. |
| LOST
VICTORIES |
 THE
general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945
was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in
their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief.
It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities
and an equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater
grasp of the potentialities of mechanised forces than any of the other
commanders who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military
genius. In the earlier stages of the war he exerted a great influence behind
the scenes as a staff officer. Later he became an outstanding commander,
and played a key part from 1941 to 1944 in the titanic struggle on the
Russian front. His detailed account of the campaigns, pungent comments,
and very significant revelations combine to make his book one of the most
important and illuminating contributions to the history of World War II. |
| 7TH
PANZER DIVISION |
 Like
the 6th Panzer Division, 7th Panzer Division was formed in October 1939
by the conversion of one of the Wehrmachfs Leichte Divisions to full Panzer
Division status.
The 7th Panzer Division was a German
elite armored formation which participated in the Battle of France. General
Erwin Rommel commanded the division, which was nicknamed the "Ghost Division"
because of its speed and independent movement, which even the German High
Command had difficulty following. After service in France, the division
served mainly on the Eastern Front, ending its days in the defense of Germany
and surrendering to the British army northwest of Berlin in 1945.
the 2nd leichte division was officially
formed on 10 November 1938 at Gera, to the south of Leipzig. Despite the
fact that Germany had very little cavalry strength, the cavalry arm was
the most prestigious in the German armed forces, and the light divisions
had been formed primarily as a sop to the few but highly influential cavalry
officers who dominated the high command.
In 1939, the 2nd Leichte Division
was under the command of General de Kavallerie Stumme. At full strength,
the division comprised 457 officers and warrant officers leading 11,000
NCOs and men. |
| THE
GHOST DIVISION |
Like the 6th Panzer Division, 7th
Panzer Division was formed in October 1939 by the conversion of one of
the Wehrmachfs Leichte Divisions to full Panzer Division status.
The 7th Panzer Division was a German
elite armored formation which participated in the Battle of France. General
Erwin Rommel commanded the division, which was nicknamed the "Ghost Division"
because of its speed and independent movement, which even the German High
Command had difficulty following. After service in France, the division
served mainly on the Eastern Front, ending its days in the defense of Germany
and surrendering to the British army northwest of Berlin in 1945.
the 2nd leichte division was officially
formed on 10 November 1938 at Gera, to the south of Leipzig. Despite the
fact that Germany had very little cavalry strength, the cavalry arm was
the most prestigious in the German armed forces, and the light divisions
had been formed primarily as a sop to the few but highly influential cavalry
officers who dominated the high command.
In 1939, the 2nd Leichte Division
was under the command of General de Kavallerie Stumme. At full strength,
the division comprised 457 officers and warrant officers leading 11,000
NCOs and men. |
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