Arthur Hauffe
Arthur Hauffe (born December 20, 1892 in Wittgensdorf , Chemnitz district, † July 22, 1944 near Lemberg ) was a German officer , most recently General of the Infantry in World War II .
Life
Hauffe joined the 2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 171 on April 25, 1912 as a flag junior and was promoted to lieutenant on December 18, 1913 . With the outbreak of the First World War , his regiment came to the front. From June 24, 1915, Hauffe was a battalion adjutant in replacement regiment No. 29. There he was then used from 22nd as deputy, and from 29 November 1915 as regimental adjutant. In this position he was promoted to lieutenant on January 27, 1917 . As such, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Commander-in-Chief East on December 7, 1917, and Hauffe was appointed as an orderly officer .
After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr . Hauffe also served in the Wehrmacht in various general staffs and as a commander. On August 1, 1937, he was promoted to colonel . From October 12, 1937, he was employed as the first general staff officer at General Command III. On May 1, 1939 he became Chief of the General Staff at the Upper Rhine Border Guard Command and from September 26, 1939 at the XXV. Army Corps (Wehrmacht) . From February 15, 1940, the post of Chief of the General Staff at XXXXVIII followed. Panzer Corps . He was promoted to major general on June 1, 1940. From June 1, 1941 to January 20, 1943, he was head of the German military mission in Romania . He was promoted to Lieutenant General on January 1, 1943. From February 7 to July 20, 1943, he was commander of the 46th Infantry Division . From September 7, 1943 to July 22, 1944 he was in command of the XIII. Army Corps . He was appointed General of the Infantry on November 1, 1943. He came on July 22, 1944, Lviv during the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive in Soviet captivity . During the march into captivity, Hauffe stepped on a mine and was fatally injured.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Albrecht Order with swords
- Knight's Cross II. Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order with swords
- Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
- Cross of Honor of the World War
- Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
- Military Order Michael the Brave III. Class on October 14, 1941
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on July 25, 1943
- German cross in gold on April 11, 1944
literature
- Dermot Bradley : The Generals of the Army 1921-1945, Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld ; Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 , pp. 185-186
- Wolfgang Keilig : The Generals of the Army 1939–1945 . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945. Friedberg 1983, p. 129.
- ↑ a b c d e Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 139
- ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 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. 371.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauffe, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently General of the Infantry in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittgensdorf , Chemnitz district |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1944 |
| Place of death | near Lemberg |