Hans von Hammerstein-Gesmold

Hans Emil Leo Otto Friedrich August Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold (born June 7, 1867 in Kleve , † February 19, 1933 in Stettin ) was a German infantry general .

Life

origin

Hans was the second eldest son of the princely Solms-Braunfels court marshal and Prussian major Karl von Hammerstein-Gesmold (1829-1893) and his wife Alexandrine, née Countess von Razumovsky (* 1845).

Military career

Hans Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold (left) as a member of the armistice delegation in 1919

Hammerstein entered on February 6, 1886 as an ensign in the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich Karl von Preußen" (8th Brandenburgisches) No. 64 of the Prussian Army in Prenzlau .

During the First World War he was from April 21, 1916 military attaché at the legation in Bucharest . After Hammerstein had received both classes of the Iron Cross as well as the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords on July 11, 1917 , he was awarded the Pour le Mérite Order on October 6, 1917 . At the end of the war in 1918 he was major general and commander of the 213rd Infantry Division .

At the end of the First World War he was a member of the German peace delegation in Spa . In 1920 he was the commander of the German troops in Schleswig . On January 31, 1923, he resigned as a characterized general of the infantry and commander of the 2nd division of the Reichswehr .

Awards

• Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop
• Order of the Crown III. class
• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
• Prussian service award cross
• Prussian rescue medal on ribbon
• Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with oak leaves
• Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with crown
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Albrecht
• Commander of the House Order of the White Falcon
• Commander II class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
• Commander of the Order of St. Alexander
• Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Saint Olav
• Commander of the Order of the Crown of Romania
• St. Sava Order III. class

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1910. Sixtieth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, pp. 306–307.
• The leaders of the Reichsheeres 1921–1931. Stuttgart, 1931.
• Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans von Hammerstein-Gesmold in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} War Ministry (ed.): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 56.