Edmund Hoffmeister

Edmund Hoffmeister (born March 4, 1893 in Aschaffenburg ; † February 20, 1951 in Camp No. 476 Asbestos , Sverdlovsk Oblast , Russia ) was a German officer , most recently a lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Hoffmeister served as an officer in the First World War . After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and served in various units. During the cooperation of the Reichswehr with the Red Army, Hoffmeister worked as a liaison officer. In the Wehrmacht he led the 383rd Infantry Division as commander in World War II . In mid-1944 he was appointed commanding general with the leadership of the XXXXI. Panzer Corps entrusted. When Army Group Center collapsed as a result of the Soviet operation Bagration in 1944, Hoffmeister was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

He was one of the fifty German generals who, in Soviet captivity, signed the appeal of the 50 generals "To the people and the Wehrmacht" on December 8, 1944, calling on the German population and army to separate from the Nazi leadership and to end the war were.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1918) in black
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
German cross in gold on December 11, 1941
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on October 6, 1943

Individual evidence

↑ Irina V. Bezborodova: Generals of the Third Reich in Soviet hands 1943–1956. Association for the Promotion of Research into Consequences after Conflicts and Wars, Graz / Moscow 1998, ISBN 3-90166-103-4 .
^ ^A ^b Vasilij Stepanowitsch Christoforow (ed.), Vladimir Gennadjewitsch Makarow (ed.), Matthias Uhl : Interrogated: The interrogations of German generals and officers , ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
↑ Text online at pkgodzik.de (PDF; 53 kB)
↑ 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. 399.
↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmeister, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently major general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1951
Place of death	Camp No. 476 Asbestos , Sverdlovsk Oblast , Russia

[1] Irina V. Bezborodova: Generals of the Third Reich in Soviet hands 1943–1956. Association for the Promotion of Research into Consequences after Conflicts and Wars, Graz / Moscow 1998, ISBN 3-90166-103-4 .

[Verhört-2] A ^b Vasilij Stepanowitsch Christoforow (ed.), Vladimir Gennadjewitsch Makarow (ed.), Matthias Uhl : Interrogated: The interrogations of German generals and officers , ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[3] Text online at pkgodzik.de (PDF; 53 kB)

[4] 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. 399.

[5] Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 .