Georg-Henning von Heydebreck

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Georg-Hennig von Heydebreck (born December 27, 1903 in Potsdam , † April 12, 1976 in Ahrensburg ) was a colonel in the Wehrmacht who served in the armored forces and on April 13, 1944, was demonstrably involved in massacres in Italy as a commando leader. Von Heydebreck was a member of an old Pomeranian noble family and the NSDAP .

military

At the beginning of the Second World War , von Heydebreck was in command of the 8th Panzer Regiment from 1939 to 1940 and the I./Panzer Regiment 201 in France and Belgium from December 1940 to July 1942 . He was wounded and taken to a military hospital. After his recovery, he trained executives in military tactics at the armored vehicle school in Paris . From November 1942 to May 1943 he again commanded Panzer Regiment 201 and then Panzer Regiment 39. From July 20, 1943 he served in Panzer Regiment 39 in the parachute tank division 1 Hermann Göring . He is said to have been accepted into the Bundeswehr and his last rank in the military was that of Colonel d. R.

massacre

On April 13, 1944, von Heydebreck was the leading commander in the massacre of Monte Morello and Vallucciole near Florence in a so-called fight against gangs , in which, according to a report by the Wehrmacht, 186 "enemy deaths" were recorded. According to the latest research, only 17 partisans were among the victims and the vast majority were defenseless women, children and the elderly. According to the military historian Gerhard Schreiber , von Heydebreck gave higher numbers and data, especially with regard to the partisans killed, that did not stand up to scrutiny after fighting the gangs.

awards and medals

Colonel von Heydebreck has received several awards:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carlo Gentile : Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War: Italy 1943–1945 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8 . P. 317
  2. ^ A b Carlo Gentile: Le stragi del 1944 in provincia di Arezzo ei loro perpetratori (Italian), from 1994, on Academia. Retrieved October 24, 2019. p. 10
  3. ^ Gerhard Schreiber : German war crimes in Italy. Perpetrator, victim, prosecution (= Beck'sche series. 1168). Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39268-7 . P. 161/162
  4. ↑ Georg-Henning von Heydebreck , on tracesofwar.com. Retrieved October 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Heydebreck, Georg-Henning von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydebreck, Georg-Hennig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel in the Wehrmacht and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1976
Place of death Ahrensburg