Hans Kreysing

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Hans Kreysing

Hans Kreysing , (born August 17, 1890 in Göttingen , † April 14, 1969 in Oldenburg ) was a German officer , most recently a general of the mountain troops in World War II .

Life

After graduating from high school , Kreysing joined the Hannoversche Jäger Battalion No. 10 in Goslar in 1909 . During the First World War he fought in South Tyrol , in Serbia up to the Greek border. In 1916 he was seriously injured as the leader of a hunting company in the Battle of Verdun . On January 27, 1918, Kreysing was promoted to captain . From October 27, 1918, he led the "Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10". After the armistice he was from October 15, 1919 as a company commander in the "Freiwilligen Hannoversche Jägerbataillon" (also " Freikorps Kirchheim") set up by the last commander of the "active" hunter battalion ( Heinrich Kirchheim ) . In 1920 he was accepted into the Reichswehr .

There he was used as chief of the 6th company of the 17th infantry regiment and from April 1, 1929 as adjutant to the site commander in Opole . On February 1, 1931 Kreysing was promoted to major and on January 1, 1934 to commander of the III. Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment in Oldenburg. This was followed by promotion to lieutenant colonel on July 1, 1934 and on October 15, 1935, the takeover of the 1st battalion in Bremen . After his promotion to colonel on August 1, 1936, he was finally appointed regimental commander on October 6, 1936.

At the beginning of the Second World War he took part in the invasion of Poland . For an airborne mission in the Waalhaven area in Holland, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment. On July 1, 1940, he was promoted to major general and on October 23, 1940 appointed commander of the 3rd Mountain Division . In 1941 the 3rd Mountain Division was transferred to the Eastern Front and fought on the Arctic Front , near Leningrad and later in Millerowo , where he managed to break through an enclosure and smash several Soviet divisions (he was then awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross decorated with oak leaves and commanding general of the XVII Army Corps ). Heavy fighting followed in the Carpathian Mountains , Romania and Hungary. On November 1, 1943, Kreysing was promoted to general of the mountain troops and on December 28, during the Battle of Budapest, received supreme command of the 8th Army, which was pushed back on the Hron section .

After the surrender on May 8, 1945, he fought his way through a 24-day march from South Moravia to Göttingen and became a British prisoner of war . After his release in 1948, Kreysing began to volunteer in the German Red Cross and, together with his wife Ilse Kreysing, ran the “Villa Ilse” guesthouse on the East Frisian North Sea island of Norderney.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Verlag Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, p. 130.
  2. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 475.
personal data
SURNAME Kreysing, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and general of the mountain troops in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1969
Place of death Oldenburg