القيادة العليا للجيوش الألمانية
Following his departure, Brücklmeier underwent military service in France; became a Wehrmacht staff member at the Foreign Testing Centre in Berlin; and then became a military administrator in the State Administration Office of the Army High Command ("Oberkommando des Heeres"). In 1942, he was given a job by the State Marksmen's Battalion (the "Landesschützenbataillon").