Hans-Valentin Hube

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Hans-Valentin Hube (1941)

Hans-Valentin Hube , also Hans Hube , (born October 29, 1890 in Naumburg (Saale) ; † April 21, 1944 near Ainring ) was a German army officer, most recently colonel general in World War II , and one of 27 bearers of oak leaves with swords and Diamonds for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .

Life

In 1909, Hube joined the infantry regiment "Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau" No. 26 in Magdeburg as a flag junior , where he was promoted to lieutenant on August 22, 1910 after 18 months of service .

With the recruits he had trained, he went to the First World War as platoon leader in 1914 , became a battalion adjutant and on September 20, 1914 near Fontenoy ( Département Aisne ) was so badly wounded by a ricochet that his left arm had to be amputated. As first lieutenant and company commander , Hube returned to the Western Front in December 1915 . In 1916 he received the Iron Cross 1st Class on the Somme . In 1917 he was promoted to captain and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern . Hube served as battalion commander in the defense of the first British tank attack at the Battle of Cambrai . Shortly afterwards he had to be admitted to the hospital with a serious poison gas illness . It was still proposed for the Pour le Mérite . However, due to the end of the war in November 1918, he was no longer awarded this medal.

After his release from the hospital, he was initially with the volunteer state rifle corps and was accepted into the Reichswehr in October 1919 . Here he worked first as a company commander and from 1925 as a trainer at the Central Infantry School in Dresden . In 1932 he took over the 1st Battalion of the 3rd (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Marienwerder as a major . Two years later, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel . On May 1, 1935, he was commander of the Döberitz infantry training staff and, as such , was promoted to colonel the following year .

In October 1939, Hube took over as commander of Infantry Regiment 3 and shortly after the start of the western campaign on May 14, 1940, the 16th Infantry Division . Two weeks later he was named major general. Fighting within the Kleist Panzer Group , he reached the English Channel and then advanced in Lorraine to the Vaudemont near Mirecourt , where he saw the surrender of the French XXI. Corps of General Flavigny received two days before the armistice negotiations . After the end of the campaign in France, Hube received the order to convert his 16th Infantry Division into a Panzer Division and to transfer it to allied Romania as a training force .

The 16th Panzer Division under Major General Hube immediately broke through the Stalin Line during the attack on the Soviet Union at the end of June 1941 , for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on August 1, 1941 . Later he was decisively involved in the capture of Nikolayev and the Battle of Kiev , for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross Oak Leaves as the 62nd recipient of the award on January 17, 1942. In April 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant general. On September 16, 1942 he was assigned to lead the XIV Panzer Corps , which was deployed in the Battle of Stalingrad , and a little later he was promoted to general of the armored forces . On December 28, 1942, he received Hitler's orders to fly out of the cauldron to report and receive the swords awarded on December 21 to the Knight's Cross. On January 8, 1943, he flew back into the pocket, where the end of the 6th Army was already in sight. By order of Hitler, Hans Hube was flown out of the boiler on January 18, 1943 to organize the air supply.

In February 1943, the Army High Command instructed Hube to reorganize the XIV Panzer Corps, which was to be relocated to Sicily . He was appointed commander in chief of all army and air forces in Sicily and took part in the battle for the island and the subsequent battles on the Italian mainland.

Wilhelm Keitel , Karl Dönitz , Heinrich Himmler and Günther von Kluge (front row from right) at the funeral for Hube

Restitution stone on Hube's grave in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin

On October 23, 1943, he received command of the 1st Panzer Army . After his army was encircled in the Kamenez-Podolski battle , he was able to break out successfully with 200,000 men. For this he received on 20 April 1944 by Hitler as the fourth soldier of the army, the diamonds the Knight's Cross and was appointed Colonel-General conveyed.

The next day, Hube was killed in a plane crash: the machine that was supposed to bring him from Salzburg to Berlin crashed shortly after taking off from Ainring . Hube was buried with a state ceremony in the Berlin Invalidenfriedhof . The original grave decorations have not been preserved, but the grave site has been marked by a restitution stone since 2000 .

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
• Friedrich Cross
• Wound badge (1918) in black
• Wehrmacht service award IV. To I. class
• Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak leaves, swords and diamonds
  • Knight's Cross on August 1, 1941
  • Oak leaves on January 16, 1942 (62nd award)
  • Swords on December 21, 1942 (22nd award)
  • Diamonds on April 20, 1944 (13th award)
• Medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42
• Tank battle badge in silver
• Commander of the Military Order of Savoy
• Mentioned in the Wehrmacht report on August 17, 1943; January 31, 1944 and April 9, 1944

Works

• The infantryman: manual f. Self-teaching u. Training d. young frontline soldiers d. Infanterie Verlag Open Words, Charlottenburg 1925.

Web links

Commons : Hans Valentin Hube  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans-Valentin Hube in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans-Valentin Hube in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 407.