Hans Bergen (General)

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Hans Bergen (born March 5, 1890 in Munich , † February 17, 1957 in Landshut ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general of the Wehrmacht .

Life

Hans Bergen's father Fritz Bergen was a painter, as was his brother Claus Bergen .

On September 25, 1910, he joined the 10th Infantry Regiment in Ingolstadt as a flag boy . During the First World War he was wounded and spent six months in the hospital . At the end of October 1912 he was promoted to lieutenant . Positions followed, mainly in his recruiting regiment as a company commander and battalion commander . He was the founder of a volunteer corps . After the war he was discharged from the army at the end of March 1920 with the rank of captain and he entered the police force.

At the beginning of August 1935 he was accepted into the army of the Wehrmacht . He served as a lieutenant colonel in the 62nd Infantry Regiment of the newly established 10th Infantry Division . At the end of 1937 he was promoted to colonel . From the end of 1938 he was employed in the staff of the 62nd Infantry Regiment. From August 1939 to early April 1940 he was in command of the newly established 179th Infantry Regiment , which was subordinated to the 57th Infantry Division at the beginning of the war . With this regiment he took part in the attack on Poland . He was then transferred to the Führerreserve . Further deployments followed from 1941, including as regimental commander and staff officer. From mid-January 1942 he was first deputy and then full commander of the 323rd Infantry Division . In this position he was promoted to major general on October 1, 1941 . He and the division were transferred to the Eastern Front. At this point in time, his superiors and subordinates attest to his lack of insight, but also bad military behavior, according to a letter from the deputy head of the Army Personnel Office, Wilhelm Burgdorf . As a result, he lost his command on the Eastern Front on November 5, 1942, before his “ complete disqualification ” occurred.

He was then commander of the 299th Infantry Division until May 1943 . It followed until its dissolution in November 1944 as the 390th Security Division, command of the 390th Field Training Division . On October 1, 1943, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Further negative testimonies and assessments of Bergen's fatigue led to a transfer to the replacement army. In December 1944, he took over division No. 526 as a substitute for Kurt Schmidt . He tried to get back to the front, but was no longer transferred from the reserve army due to the bad reports. From October 1944 until the end of the war he was court judge for court courts . Shortly before the end of the war, he was given command of the 526th Reserve Division and then also commander of the 476th Reserve Division , which was newly established from it , reported sick and on March 29, 1945 in the Ruhr area became an American prisoner of war .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • We marched against Poland. A memory book of the Polish campaign of the 179th Infantry Regiment. Commander: Colonel Hans Bergen. Mühlthaler's book and art print shop, Munich, 1940.
  • Robert Paul Fuller: Last Shots for Patton's Third Army . New England Transportation Research, 2003, p. 127 ff.
  • Wolfgang Keilig : The generals of the army. Podzun, 1983, p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Theis: Wehrmacht Justice on the "Home Front": The Military Courts of the Replacement Army in World War II . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-040561-3 , p. 96 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  2. ^ A b Robert Paul Fuller: Last Shots for Patton's Third Army . New England Transportation Research, 2003, ISBN 978-0-9740519-0-1 , pp. 127 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c Kerstin Theis: Wehrmacht justice on the "home front": The military courts of the replacement army in the Second World War . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-040561-3 , p. 145 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2019]).
  4. ↑ 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. 28 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  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. 14 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  6. ^ 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. 93 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Kerstin Theis: Wehrmacht Justice on the "Home Front": The Military Courts of the Replacement Army in World War II . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-040561-3 , p. 144 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2019]).
  8. ^ 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. 140 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Kerstin Theis: Wehrmacht Justice on the "Home Front": The Military Courts of the Replacement Army in World War II . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-040561-3 , p. 157 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
  10. ^ 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. 137 ( google.de [accessed on July 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bergen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1957
Place of death Landshut