Alexander von Hartmann

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Heinrich Eberhard Alexander von Hartmann (born December 11, 1890 in Berlin ; † January 26, 1943 near Stalingrad ) was a German infantry general in World War II .

Life

origin

Alexander was the son of the Prussian officer Heinrich von Hartmann (* 1854) and his wife Louise, née Brandt von Lindau (* 1865) from the Drewen family. The Prussian infantry general Eberhard von Hartmann was his grandfather.

Military career

Hartmann joined the infantry regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94 of the Prussian Army on March 3, 1910 as an ensign . In March of the following year he was promoted to lieutenant and moved after the outbreak of the First World War as a platoon leader in the MG - Company of his regiment on the Western Front . In September 1914 his unit was transferred to the Eastern Front, where he was wounded for the first time in mid-November. Hartmann was promoted to first lieutenant on June 18, 1915, and suffered a serious wound the following month. After a stay in a hospital, he initially worked as a leader of the 1st MG replacement department in Kassel and was transferred to the Adjutantur of the War Ministry in Berlin on December 1, 1916 . It was here that he was promoted to captain on June 20, 1918 . For his work, Hartmann was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross II class of the House Order of the White Falcon with Swords, the Wilhelm Ernst War Cross , the Honor Cross of the 4th Class of the Lippe House Order with swords and the Wound Badge in black. The allied Austrians honored him with the award of the Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration and from the Ottoman Empire Hartmann received the Iron Crescent .

After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr . Hartmann initially worked as an auxiliary officer in the Reichswehr Ministry and was appointed company commander in the 17th Infantry Regiment on October 1, 1921 . In the same capacity he was transferred to the 7th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment on May 1, 1926 . With his promotion to major, Hartmann moved up to the staff of the training battalion in Schweidnitz on April 1, 1931 . He spent 1933 as a liaison officer for the army at the Reichsmarinedienststelle Hamburg . In October 1934 Hartmann took over command of the III as a lieutenant colonel . Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment in Osnabrück . In 1937 he was promoted to colonel and commander of the same regiment that was part of the 6th Infantry Division .

When the Second World War broke out, he led his regiment in the campaign against France . After his promotion to major general , Hartmann was briefly in the Führerreserve and on March 28, 1941, became the commander of the 71st Infantry Division . and led them into the battle of Stalingrad in Army Group South . There he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 8, 1942 . On December 1, 1942, he was promoted to lieutenant general. He was killed on January 26, 1943 on the Tsaritza embankment in an exchange of fire with Soviet soldiers. He sought death on the grounds, “I will go to my soldiers in the front line ... I seek death in their ranks. A capture is dishonorable for a general. ”With effect from January 1, 1943, he was subsequently promoted to General of the Infantry by Hitler on February 15, 1943.

After Hartmann's divisional command post, a small district was named "Hartmann City" in Volgograd.

Fonts

  • The Infantry Regiment Grand Duke of Saxony (5th Thuringian) No. 94 in the World War. Brief overview, Klasing & Co., Berlin 1921.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 .
  • Helmut Heiber, David M. Glantz: Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945. Enigma Books, 2002, ISBN 1-929631-09-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian nobility. Volume 2, Berlin 1893, p. 316.
  2. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1930, p. 131.
  3. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 368.
  4. ↑ diepresse.com
  5. ↑ battlefield-travel.com ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Heinrich Eberhard Alexander von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infantry general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1943
Place of death Stalingrad