High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Generalleutnant Theodor Scherer (September 17, 1889 ? May, 1951) was a divisional commander in the Wehrmacht in World War II.Theodor Scherer was born to a Bavarian schoolmaster in 1889.He was commissioned into the army in 1910, and served in various machine gun detachments throughout World War I. He spent the next 15 years serving as a police officer before rejoining the army in 1935 with the rank of Oberstleutnant.