Hans Helmut Speidel

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Hans Helmut Speidel (born August 30, 1938 in Mannheim ) is a retired German Brigadier General . D.

Hans Helmut Speidel was born in Mannheim in 1938 as the son of the Wehrmacht and later Bundeswehr General Hans Speidel . After graduating from high school in 1957, he joined the armed forces . He was trained as an officer and was u. a. Used in the 10th Panzer Division , in the 292 Panzer Grenadier Battalion and in the 29th Panzer Brigade . He was the commander of the Jäger Battalion 112 in Regen, head of staff department in III. Corps in Koblenz, group leader in the Army Office in Cologne, division manager in the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense in Bonn, Army and Defense Attaché at the German embassies in Washington DC ,London and Paris and Head of the Personnel and Internal Command Department in the Bundeswehr Command East in Strausberg. From 1969 to 1971 he took part in the 12th General Staff course (H) at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. From 1995 to 1998 he was head of the Defense District Command 100 / Location Command Berlin . He was then retired.

From 2001 to 2013 he was head of the Berlin regional district of the Clausewitz Society . In 1998 he became president of the Berlin regional association of the German Life Saving Society ; later he became honorary president.

Speidel is married and has four children.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieter Krüger:  Speidel, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Henning Sußebach : Hans H. Speidel, Berlin's new supreme soldier . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 29, 1995.
  3. ^ Detlef Bald , Wilhelm Nolte, Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: General staff training between society and the military. The annual work archive . Edited by the command academy of the Bundeswehr and the Clausewitz Society , Mittler, Herford u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-8132-0375-1 , p. 145.
  4. ↑ Barbara Junge : The highest soldier in town . In: the daily newspaper , March 16, 1998.
  5. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Published by the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 271.
  6. ↑ Ex-General new President of the DLRG . In: the daily newspaper , December 14, 1998, p. 21.
  7. ↑ a b Hans Helmut Speidel honored . thw.de, November 25, 2011.
  8. ^ French medal for Brigadier General Speidel . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 16249, February 13, 1998, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Speidel, Hans Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Brigadier General ret. D.
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim