Christian Hansen (officer)

Christian Hansen (1939)

Christian Hansen (born April 10, 1885 in Schleswig , † August 7, 1972 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German officer , most recently general of the artillery in World War II .

Life

On March 1, 1903, Hansen joined the Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 in Koblenz as a flag junior and became a lieutenant on August 18, 1904 . From October 1, 1906, he was assigned to the Military Technical Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg for two years and, in September 1907, completed a course at the foot artillery school in Niederzwehren at the same time . On October 1, 1908, Hansen was transferred to the teaching battalion of the foot artillery school for a year and then returned to his regular regiment. From October 1, 1910 to July 21, 1913 he was assigned to the Prussian War Academy in Berlin and he was promoted to first lieutenant on August 18, 1912. From April 1, 1914, Hansen was assigned to the General Staff .

With the outbreak of the First World War , he returned to his regiment and shortly afterwards on August 17, 1914, he became an auxiliary officer for the commissioner of the chief of the field railways and general staff officer at the 6th AOK . On September 19, 1914, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Strantz Army Department and on November 8, 1914, he was promoted to captain . From January 25, 1915, Hansen worked as an auxiliary officer at AOK 10 and as a general staff officer in the staff of the 33rd Reserve Division. He was then transferred on March 14, 1917 to the operations department of the Grand Headquarters , where he was to remain after the end of the war.

At the beginning of 1919, Hansen joined the General Staff of the Thorn Governorate and, after joining the Reichswehr on February 15, 1920, was appointed General Staff Officer in the staff of Infantry Leader II. On July 27th, he was transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry and on October 1, 1920, to the headquarters of the 6th Division in Münster . On July 13, 1922, Hansen was appointed chief of the 3rd battery of the 2nd (Prussian) Artillery Regiment in Stettin . From February 1, 1925, Hansen served as an Ia in the staff of the 1st Division in Königsberg . In mid-October he was briefly assigned to the staff of the naval station of the Baltic Sea in Kiel , only to be transferred to the general staff of group command 2 in Kassel on November 1, 1925 . With the simultaneous promotion to major on February 1, 1926, Hansen came to military district command VI . He stayed here until September 30, 1928, was briefly a tactics teacher at the Infantry School Dresden and at the end of the year in the staff of III. Division of the 2nd (Prussian) Artillery Regiment transferred to Itzehoe . At the same time he completed a combat school course in October 1929 and joined the staff of Group Command 1 in Berlin in March 1930. From April 1, he acted as Army Liaison Officer Hamburg, was transferred to the 5th Artillery Regiment on October 1 and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on December 1, 1930 . From October 2 to 29, 1931, he was assigned to the shooting course for artillery officers and on October 1, 1932, he was appointed course director at the Jüterbog artillery school . As a colonel (since April 1, 1933), Hansen took over the 1st (Prussian) Artillery Regiment in Königsberg on October 1, 1933 . On April 1, 1936, Hansen was major general on October 6, 1936, commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Ludwigsburg, and in this capacity on March 1, 1938, Lieutenant General .

During the Second World War , Hansen was Commanding General of the X Army Corps from October 15, 1939, and in this capacity was promoted to General of the Artillery on June 1, 1940. On October 30, 1943 he was initially charged with the command and on November 4, 1943 appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 16th Army . Due to illness, he was replaced on July 15, 1944, transferred to the Führerreserve and, on December 31, 1944, he was released from active service and retired.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with swords
Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Albrecht with Swords
Braunschweig War Merit Cross, 2nd class
Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration
Iron crescent
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on August 3, 1941
German cross in gold on April 2, 1943

literature

Dermot Bradley , Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: The Generals of the Army 1921–1945, Volume 5 v. Haack-Hitzfeld , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2422-0 , pp. 103-104

Web links

Commons : Christian Hansen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 120
↑ ^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. 365.

personal data
SURNAME	Hansen, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently general of the artillery in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH	7th August 1972
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[Rangliste-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 120

[Scherzer-2] 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. 365.