Erich Hampe

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Erich Hampe (1939)

Erich Hampe (born December 17, 1889 in Gera , † June 28, 1978 in Hangelar near Bonn ) was a German officer and president of the Federal Agency for Civil Air Protection , general of the technical troops and head of technical emergency aid, as well as editor and specialist author.

Life

Erich Hampe was the son of the senior physician Ernst Hampe. He joined on March 28, 1908 as a cadet in the Magdeburgische Rifle Battalion. 4 of the Prussian army one from which he on July 20, 1912 as a lieutenant of the reserve was released.

After his departure, Hampe became editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Die Post”, which was close to the Free Conservative Party .

With the outbreak of World War I to spare MG - Department convened Hampe one came in September 1914 for Guard Gun Units No to the. Western Front . From October he was in trench warfare in Flanders and Artois and took part in November in the Battle of Ypres and in February / March 1915 in the winter battle in Champagne . As a first lieutenant , Hampe and his department were transferred to the Eastern Front in April and fought, among other things, in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow . On November 2, 1915 he was transferred to the 5th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 168 . After an illness in December 1916, he was transferred to the replacement machine gun department, where he was promoted to captain on January 27, 1918 .

After the end of the war in December to replacement MG company 1 of III. Moved to the Army Corps , Hampe joined a Freikorps in 1919 as leader of an MG division . From the end of June 1919 he was a military member of the hospital commission of the Saarow reserve hospital. On November 30, 1919, Hampe was retired from military service.

In the Weimar Republic , from 1920 onwards, Hampe was deputy chief and operations manager of the technical emergency aid (TN). For a time he was a member of the German People's Party , a national liberal party of the Weimar Republic, which was represented in the Weimar Reich governments from 1920 to 1931.

Hampe welcomed the takeover of power by the National Socialists who pushed one of his life issues, air protection . On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,673,271). Hampe objected to the fact that the full-time TN employees should be given police ranks like the fire brigade officers after their incorporation as technical auxiliary police. The reasons for this remained unclear, but as a former soldier it was probably important to him to preserve the paramilitary character of the TN. In 1941 Hampe was transferred to the Wehrmacht by the Ordnungspolizei and entrusted with building the technical troops. Since May 20, 1941 Lieutenant Colonel with seniority from June 1, 1939, he was appointed head of the newly established Technical Troops Department in the Army High Command (In 11) at the end of the month . In this function, from October 20, 1942, he was also entrusted with the management of business as general of the technical troops in the OKH. For the relief effort after the bombing of Berlin, he was awarded the German Silver Cross on July 22, 1944 . On April 1, 1945, Hampe was promoted to major general.

After the end of the war, Hampe was taken prisoner and was interned as part of the Allied denazification policy . On February 28, 1947, he was classified by a British military tribunal (British Review Board No. 11) as a fellow traveler . With decision no. 3951 of December 22, 1949, Hampe was exonerated "without restriction" by the main denazification committee for the Düsseldorf administrative region.

In September 1950 Otto Lummitzsch appointed Hampe to the development staff of the Technical Relief Organization , the successor organization to the technical emergency aid. In January 1951 he was hired as "Advisor for border protection, air and disaster control" in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). At the end of his career as a federal civil servant, on March 25, 1954, Hampe became President of the newly founded Federal Agency for Civil Air Protection in Bonn .

Hampe retired on June 30, 1955, one year after reaching the standard retirement age.

Awards

Fonts

  • Man and the gases. Introduction to gas science and instructions on gas protection. Fahrrad-Verlag, Berlin-Steglitz 1932 (2nd revised edition 1934)
  • Man and the air hazard. A guide through air threat and air defense. Fahrrad-Verlag, Berlin-Steglitz 1936 (2nd edition 1937, 3rd improved edition 1939)
  • (Associate Editor) The civil air defense. A compilation of all questions of air protection. Edited by Kurt Knipfer and Erich Hampe. Stolberg, Berlin 1934 (2nd revised edition 1937)
  • Civil Defense Strategy. Study on a burning question of time. Eisenschmidt, Frankfurt am Main 1956
  • In the field of tension between the forces of the air. An introduction to the possible dangers from the air and possibilities of protection and assistance for the Federal Republic. Maximilian-Verlag, Cologne 1956 (Civilian Civil Protection, Issue 2)
  • Civil air defense in World War II: Documentation and experience reports on construction and use . Bernard and Graefe 1963 ( digitized at www.bbk.de)
  • (with Dermot Bradley ) The Unknown Army. The technical troops in World War 2. (= Studies on military history, military science and conflict research; Vol. 21). With a foreword by Karl Hollidt . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1979. ISBN 3-7648-1175-7
  • ... when everything fell to pieces. Major General a. D., former General of the Technical Troops and President of the Federal Agency for Civil Air Protection. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1979 (Fate of soldiers in the 20th century as historical sources ; 1) ISBN 3-7648-1168-4 [autobiography]

literature

  • Frank Bösch , Andreas Wirsching (ed.): Guardian of order. The interior ministries in Bonn and East Berlin after National Socialism. Göttingen 2018, pp. 172–175.
  • Nikolaus Ziske: Erich Hampe. Until 1941, head of the technical emergency aid department, in 1950 in the development team of the Technical Relief Organization (THW), in 1951 as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and in 1954 President of the Federal Agency for Civil Air Protection. Documentation. epubli, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-3545-8 .
  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): 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 . Pp. 95-96.

Web links

swell

  • BArch Pers 101 / 60606-60608.
  • BArch NSDAP membership card, party statistical survey form of the NSDAP from 1939 (R 9361 I), files NSDAP party correspondence (PK), 1937, 2 pages, files of the Reich Chamber of Culture (RKK) / Reichsschrifttumskammer, 1933-1939, 28 pp.
  • Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, inventory NW 1034, Sign. 2014, Hampe, Erich.
  • Gas protection and air protection . Ebeling, Berlin, 1 (1931) - 15 (1945).
  • The wheels. Journal of technical emergency aid. Fahrrad-Verlag, Berlin, 1 (1920) - 26 (1945).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945. Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 . P. 125.
  2. ↑ Erich Hampe: Air protection as a question of fate for the German people . In: Kurt Knipfer / Erich Hampe (Hrsg.): The civil air protection . Berlin 1934, p. 135-143 .
personal data
SURNAME Hampe, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, President of the Federal Agency for Civil Air Defense; General of the technical force, head of the technical emergency aid
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1978
Place of death Hangelar