Hanns von Rohr

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Hanns Bernd-Christian von Rohr (born July 4, 1895 in Sondershausen , Thuringia , † November 27, 1988 in Düsseldorf ) was a German major general . After the Second World War he contributed to the rapprochement between Germans and Poles.

Life

Origin and marriage

He came from the old Bavarian noble family von Rohr , which is already mentioned in a document around 1033 on the Palatinate Ranshofen am Inn , and was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Christian von Rohr (1849-1933), chamberlain and court marshal of the princess-widow of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen , and Alexandra von Larisch (1856–1934). Rohr married on September 22, 1927 at Gut Rudelsdorf ( Groß Wartenberg district , Lower Silesia ), Annelies von Korn (born January 17, 1901 at Gut Rudelsdorf; † July 8, 1993 in Düsseldorf), the daughter of Johann von Korn, landlord of Rudelsdorf , and Lidy Freiin von Lüttwitz . The couple had two daughters and a son.

Military time

On March 12, 1914, he joined the Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 of the Prussian Army as a flag junior . He was promoted to lieutenant on February 18, 1915 . After the First World War he was accepted into the Reichswehr .

From January 1, 1934 he was chief of the 9th Company of the 9th Infantry Regiment . On May 1, 1937 he was commander of the III. Battalion from the 67th Infantry Regiment. On April 1, 1938, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

He served on various fronts during World War II . At the beginning of the war he was still in command of the III. Battalion of the 67th Infantry Regiment. On June 17, 1940, he was appointed commander of the 174th Infantry Regiment. On April 1, 1941, he was promoted to colonel . With the 174 Infantry Regiment, as part of the 81st Infantry Division , he fought on the Eastern Front. He took part in the Demyansk Kettle Battle in early 1942. Because of his service in the Kesselschlacht he received the German Cross in Gold on April 30, 1943 . As a representative for Karl Allmendinger he was commander of the 5th Jäger Division from July 1942 to August 1942 . From April 1, 1943 to April 1, 1944 he was city commander of Cherbourg . From July 1, 1944 he was commander of the 715th Infantry Division , briefly replaced in September by the then Colonel Hans-Joachim Ehlert . In this position he was promoted to major general on December 1, 1944. This was initially used in Italy in the Rimini area .

From March 1945 the deployment took place in Upper Silesia and later in Bohemia in the area of Tábor and Písek . In March 1945, Colonel-General Ferdinand Schörner wanted to have him executed because he refused to allow soldiers who had fled from Red Army tanks to be shot. The OKH mitigated the death sentence to demotion and probation. On April 9, 1945 he was commissioned with the command of the Grenadier Regiment 697. He was taken prisoner of war on May 2, 1945.

After 1945

From 1950 he was chairman of the Hellmut von Gerlach Society in Düsseldorf (today the German-Polish Society of the Federal Republic of Germany ). Rohr was heavily attacked in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1950s for his commitment to German-Polish relations. In his function as chairman, he took part in numerous, often secret, meetings with representatives of the Polish government and the GDR government (e.g. Karl Wloch , Czyrek, Urbaniak). At these meetings the work of the Hellmut von Gerlach Society in the Federal Republic and its financial support from East Berlin and Warsaw were discussed.

Rohr's health deteriorated in the late 1950s. Probably in 1958 he resigned from the position of CEO of the Hellmut von Gerlach Society.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume XXVII, Page 534, Volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9 .
  2. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 240 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 197 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ See Hanns von Rohr's personal file in the Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg.
  5. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 196 ( google.de [accessed on May 1, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945 . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, p. 282.
  7. ↑ See Hanns von Rohr: We want peace . In: Jenseits der Oder , 1 (1950), Heft 1, S. 1.
    For the attacks cf. for example Anonymous: People's Democracy. Only names with ski. In: Der Spiegel, December 13, 1950, p. 8.
  8. ↑ See Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych (AMSZ, Archives of the Polish Foreign Ministry) z 10 / w 31 / t 272.
    See Main State Archives Düsseldorf, NW 511/49, document from March 25, 1952.
  9. ↑ Cf. Archiwum Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych (AMSZ, Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), z 10 / w 31 / t 273.
personal data
SURNAME Rohr, Hanns von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohr, Hanns Bernd-Christian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1988
Place of death Dusseldorf