Hans Halm

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Hans Halm (born February 24, 1879 in Rappoltsweiler ; † October 9, 1957 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German infantry general in World War II .

Life

Halm joined the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 of the Prussian Army in Goslar on February 6, 1897 and was promoted to lieutenant at the end of January 1898 . On July 7, 1901 he was transferred to the 3rd East Asian Infantry Regiment and the following year to the 1st East Asian Infantry Regiment, with which he participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China. After his return to Germany he was employed in the machine gun department No. 3 until he returned to his main regiment on November 18, 1905. Halm graduated from the War Academy in Berlin for three years from October 1906 and became first lieutenant in mid-May 1907 . On March 22, 1910 he was assigned to the General Staff , to which he was transferred on March 22, 1912 and promoted to captain . During the next two years he was commanded three times at the same time for the air force . In July 1912 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV. Class and in March 1913 with the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class excellent. On May 23, 1914 he was appointed to the General Staff of the XVIII. Army Corps transferred.

First World War

Halm worked here from the beginning of World War I until November 15, 1914. He was then transferred to the General Staff of the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division as a General Staff Officer . In the same capacity he was from February 3 to May 25, 1916 in the General Staff of the Gaede Army Department and then until the beginning of August 1917 in the General Staff of the Field Railways at the Supreme Army Command . Here Halm rose to head of department on August 10, 1917 and was employed after the end of the war until January 31, 1919. For his work, Halm received both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords, the Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV Class with swords and crown, the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords, the Hessian Medal of Bravery , the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross Class II, the Friedrich-August-Kreuz I. Class and the Hanseatic Cross Bremen as well as the Military Merit Cross III from the allied Austrians . Class with war decorations.

Interwar period

On February 1, 1919 Halm rose to head of department in the Great General Staff, whose post he held until the end of September 1919. He was then accepted into the Reichswehr and was head of the transport department in the Reichswehr Ministry until June 1921 . Then Halm was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion in the 18th Infantry Regiment and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 1, 1922 . In January 1926 he returned to the Reichswehr Ministry, became a colonel on February 1, 1926 , and was again head of the transport department until the end of October 1927. On November 1, 1927, he was appointed commander of the 11th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment in Leipzig , which he commanded until the end of August 1929. During this time he took part in German-Soviet maneuvers. Subsequently he was appointed to the staff of Group Command 1 on September 1, 1929 and assigned to the embassy in Moscow . This one-year stay in the Soviet Union served as a German officer guest in the General Staff of the Red Army. In this capacity he was promoted to major general on October 1, 1929 . When he returned to Germany at the end of October 1930, Halm was appointed Infantry Leader V of the 5th Division on November 1, 1930 and promoted to Lieutenant General on February 1, 1931 . On September 30, 1931, he retired.

On April 1, 1934, Halms was reactivated for the Luftwaffe under construction . Until the end of February 1935 he initially acted as President of the Höhere Luftamt in Münster and then from March 1935 to the end of March 1938 he was in command in Luftkreis IV (Münster). In this position he was appointed General of the Airmen on October 1, 1935 . On March 31, 1938 Halm resigned from military service.

Second World War

In the course of the general mobilization, Halms was reactivated again on August 26, 1939. Here he was initially made available to the army . He later acted as the commanding general of the Deputy VIII Army Corps and commander in Military District VIII . On April 17, 1940, he was renamed General of the Infantry. At the end of April 1942 Halm gave up this post and was again available for the army until June 1942. On June 30, 1942, he finally retired from active military service. It was no longer used. After his departure, Halm received the German Silver Cross on June 12, 1943 .

literature

  • Olaf Groehler: Suicidal alliance. German-Russian military relations 1920-1941. Visa Verlag, Berlin 1992, p. 60 ff.
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Part II, Volume 2: Habermehl – ​​Nuber. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1991, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , p. 22 f.
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921–1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, data officers, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 , pp. 75-76.
  • Manfred Zeidler: Reichswehr and Red Army 1920–1933. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 91 of July 20, 1912, 2061.
  2. ^ Military weekly paper. No. 43 of April 3, 1913, p. 982.
  3. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1931, p. 107.
  4. ↑ Olaf Groehler: Suicidal Alliance. German-Russian military relations 1920–1941. Visa Verlag, Berlin 1992, p. 60 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Halm, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German infantry general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Rappoltsweiler
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1957
Place of death Kronberg im Taunus