Hans Krause (officer)

Hans Friedrich Karl Krause (born April 12, 1864 in Lübben (Spreewald) , † May 6, 1927 in Misdroy ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

Krause was a son of the postal director Friedrich Ludwig Krause and his wife Emma Louise Krause, née Tätzelt. On May 6, 1864 he was baptized in the Evangelical Church in Lübben. He had a younger brother Otto Carl Krause (born August 12, 1870; + April 5, 1909 in Hanover).

After attending school, Krause joined the Prussian Army and on September 18, 1886 was granted a license as a second lieutenant . In the following years he served in the Pomeranian Pioneer Battalion No. 2. In the 1890s he was stationed in Magdeburg and served as a prime lieutenant in the 2nd engineer inspection. On April 14, 1907, Krause was transferred to the War Ministry in Berlin and was promoted to major . He then came to Königsberg as the commander of the Samland Pioneer Battalion No. 18 . Afterwards he was an engineer officer from the place of the fortress Metz West at the 4th engineer inspection.

On October 1, 1913, Krause was promoted to lieutenant colonel and, during the First World War , to colonel on August 18, 1915 . On March 14, 1918 he was appointed commander of the 90th Reserve Infantry Brigade on the Western Front , which he commanded until April 2, 1919 until the end of the war. Krause then retired as major general.

marriage and family

Krause married on November 8, 1895 in Magdeburg in the Protestant church of the garrison community Frieda Dorothea von Schlemmer (1876-1927), a daughter of Captain Kurd Oskar von Schlemmer and his wife Wanda Friederika, née Bormann.

The sons Kurd Friedrich (1897–1934) and Fritz (1900–1944) emerged from the marriage. Like his father, Kurd became a pioneer officer and rose to become first lieutenant. He lived in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Krause later joined the NSDAP and the SA and was shot by an SS peloton on July 1, 1934 in the course of the mass executions in the context of the Röhm affair in the barracks of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

literature

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of aristocratic houses: at the same time aristocratic register of the associations united in the honorary association of the German nobility. 1934. ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

↑ Marriage register of the registry office Berlin IVb No. 932/1895.
↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 365.
↑ Kurd Krause is listed in the Berlin telephone directory for 1932 as a businessman at Kanonierstrasse 38; he cannot be found there in the address book for 1932 [1] .

personal data
SURNAME	Krause, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Krause, Hans Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian major general
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luebben (Spreewald)
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 1927
Place of death	Miedzyzdroje

[1] Marriage register of the registry office Berlin IVb No. 932/1895.

[2] Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 365.

[3] Kurd Krause is listed in the Berlin telephone directory for 1932 as a businessman at Kanonierstrasse 38; he cannot be found there in the address book for 1932 [1] .