Friedrich Haselmayr

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Friedrich Haselmayr

Friedrich Haselmayr (born April 11, 1879 in Kirchenlaibach , † June 18, 1965 in Lochham ) was a German politician of the NSDAP , historian, lieutenant general and SA group leader .

Life

Haselmayr was the son of a district geometer . In 1911 he married Amalie Ott, with whom he had two children.

Empire

After attending the Humanist High School in Passau , Haselmayr joined the 16th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" of the Bavarian Army on July 16, 1897 as a two-year-old volunteer . After attending the Munich War School , he was promoted to lieutenant on March 10, 1899 . From 1907 to 1910 Haselmayr graduated from the Bavarian War Academy , which awarded him the qualification for the senior adjutantage, the departmental and military railway service as well as the subject and the general staff. From October 1, 1912 he worked as an assistant professor at the War Academy and was promoted to captain the following year .

As such, Haselmayr was leader of the 7th Company of the 2nd Reserve Infantry Regiment at the outbreak of the First World War . With the regiment he was subsequently deployed on the western front in France and rose to become battalion leader. On July 6, 1915 Haselmayr was appointed adjutant of the 1st Landwehr Division . With the large association he was in trench warfare in Lorraine . Almost two years later he was released from this command and transferred to the officers in a special position. b. V. No. 63 assigned. Haselmayr spent the rest of the war in various general staff assignments and was promoted to major on August 18, 1918 . For his achievements he had been awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Order of Military Merit IV class with swords and crown.

Interwar period

After the end of the war, Haselmayr was initially employed from the beginning of December 1918 as an adjutant at the General Command of the 1st Army Corps . After the general command was dissolved, he was military commissioner in the government of Lower Bavaria in Landshut for four months . Haselmayr was then taken over into the provisional Reichswehr and deployed in the staff of the 2nd Battalion of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 45 in Würzburg. At the same time he was deputy commander of the 2nd battalion from February to May 1920 and at the end of August 1920 he was commissioned with the leadership of the III. Battalions. On October 1, 1920 he was confirmed as battalion commander. With the formation of the Reichswehr, Haselmayr took over the 2nd Battalion of the 20th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment in Passau on January 1, 1921 . Haselmayr was then transferred to Munich on October 1, 1923, where he was employed as a teacher training assistant for the 7th (Bavarian) Division staff. Although an active officer, he took part in the Hitler putsch against the republic in November 1923 , for which he was later awarded the NSDAP blood order . Participation in the coup initially had no consequences for Haselmayr. On February 1, 1924, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and in 1926 transferred to the general staff of the 7th (Bavarian) Division. From there, Haselmayr joined the staff of the Munich headquarters in 1927. It was not until January 31, 1928 that he was released from the Reichswehr under the character of a colonel at the instigation of General der Infanterie Wilhelm Heye and Colonel Wilhelm Adam .

After retiring from military service, he studied history, constitutional and international law at the University of Munich from 1928 to 1930 . Haselmayr joined the NSDAP at the end of the 1920s. In September 1932 he took over the post of chief executive officer of the party's military policy office. As a member of the SA he achieved at least the rank of SA group leader in April 1933.

In the spring of 1933 Haselmayr became a member of the Bavarian state parliament and deputy to the Reichsleiter von Epp . In November of the same year he also became a member of the Reichstag , which he was a member of until March 1936, which at that time was downgraded to a purely stage organ without independent powers . Although he ran again in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he received no mandate.

Haselmayr founded the " Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Wehrgeistige Research " in 1935 and in 1936 was on the advisory board of the " Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany ". Together with Abrecht von Freyberg , he was head of the German section of the New Commonwealth Society. As head of the NSDAP's Defense Policy Office, he was also involved in the attempt to instrumentalize this organization, which is oriented towards disarmament strategies, for propaganda purposes.

Second World War

On July 25, 1935 he was given the character of Major General . Two years later, Haselmayr was made available to the army of the Wehrmacht on July 1, 1938 . It was not until the Second World War that he was entrusted with a command and from June 20 to August 30, 1940, he was with the general staff of a general command z. b. V. or used at the commandantur of prisoners of war in France. Until December 26, 1941 Haselmayr then commanded Field Command 569 and received in this position the patent as Colonel on December 1, 1940 as well as Major General on July 7, 1941. Then Haselmayr was Commander of Oberfeldkommandantur 579 in Volhynia . On December 1, 1942, he was transferred to the Führerreserve . On January 1, 1943, he was finally promoted to Lieutenant General zV, and on January 31, 1943, he retired from active service. From July 1945 to June 28, 1947 he was a prisoner of war .

Post-war years

After returning home from captivity, Haselmayr lived in Lochham in retirement and worked as a writer again. Between 1955 and 1964 he published the multi-part work Diplomatic History of the Second Reich from 1871-1918 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Germany's right to military reinforcement , Munich 1931.
  • Materials on German Security , Berlin 1935
  • The Wehrmacht , from: The Administrative Academy , 7th edition, Berlin 1939
  • Diplomatic history of the Second Reich from 1871–1918 , 7 volumes, Munich 1955–1964

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 463.
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1924. p. 124.
  3. ↑ Anselm Faust: The National Socialist German Student Union , 1973, p. 108.
  4. ↑ Helmut Heiber : Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany , 1966, p. 25.
  5. ↑ a b Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - Who was what in the Third Reich , Kiel 2000, p. 179
  6. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007. p. 230.
  7. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck: Robert Bosch and the liberal resistance against Hitler 1933 to 1945 , 1999, p. 181.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig : The Generals of the Army 1939-1945. Friedberg 1983, ISBN 978-3-7909-0202-0 , p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Haselmayr, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchenlaibach
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1965
Place of death Lochham