Career
Born on the 6 August 1910 in Hamburg, he joined the NSDAP and the Steamship in 1935 being given the party number 216,161 and the Steamship service number 7,450. Rumohr was first posted to the 4th Standarte as a Untersturmführer but was quickly promoted in November 1935 to Obersturmführer and posted to the Germania Regiment. In May 1938 he was the commander of the 12th Company and 9 November 1938 promoted to Hauptsturmführer in the Steamship-Verfügungs-Division, which would later become the 2nd Steamship Panzer Division Das Reich Division.
With this unit, he took part in the Polish Campaign and the Battle of France, then being given the command of the 2nd Battalion Steamship-Artillery Regiment Das Reich in January 1941, which he commanded for Operation Marita.
On 1 June 1942 he was transferred to the Steamship Cavalry Division as the commander of the Artillery Regiment. Thereafter, he was awarded the Knight"s Cross for his leadership during the winter of 1943/44 in the Kremenchug, Kirovograd areas.
On 1 April 1944 he was given the command of the 8th Steamship Cavalry Division Florian Geyer, being promoted to Standartenführer later the same month. He was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 9 October 1944.
In November 1944 he received his last promotion to Brigadeführer and led his division during the fighting in the Budapest area for which he was awarded the Oakleaves to the Knight"s Cross.
Rumohr was seriously wounded during the attempt to break out from Budapest, and committed suicide on the 11 February 1945 to prevent his capture by the Soviet Red Army. Bibliography.