Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff

Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff (born March 18, 1907 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † May 31, 1985 ) was a German officer , most recently a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Tempelhoff attended a secondary school and graduated from high school there . In 1926 Tempelhoff joined the 3rd (Prussian) Artillery Regiment . With the start of the war in 1939 he served as quartermaster in the VII Army Corps . This was followed, among other things, service assignments as first general staff officer (Ia) of the 9th Infantry Division . In the summer of 1942 he became III. Panzer Corps commanded and then fought in the 14th and 21st Panzer Divisions. He was then a teacher at the War Academy until October 1943, and then until 1944 he was Ia in Army Group B under Field Marshal Rommel, Kluge and Model. In June 1944, v. T. to Colonel i. G. appointed. In the last weeks before the end of the war, Tempelhoff commanded the 28th Jäger Division on the Eastern Front .

After his late release, he worked from 1949 to 1952 as a commercial clerk and technical advisor in Damascus, Syria. From August 1952 he was active in what would later become the Ministry of Defense as a training officer. After the war he served as an officer in the Bundeswehr. From 1956 to 1960 he worked, among other things, as the German military representative in the NATO military committee . Then he led the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 in Hildesheim . Most recently as Brigadier General (from November 1962) and commander of the 3rd Panzer Division from October 1, 1962 to March 31, 1967.

Awards

An incomplete selection:

German cross in gold
Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967.

Web links

Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

^ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (Ed.): " Braunbuch ". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968. ( Online with Google Book Search ).

personal data
SURNAME	Tempelhoff, Hans-Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, most recently Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1985

[1] National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (Ed.): " Braunbuch ". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968. ( Online with Google Book Search ).