Hans Seidemann

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Hans Seidemann (center) next to Erhard Milch (left) and Richard von Kehler ; President of the German Aero Club (right) during a speech in 1934.

Hans Hermann Ernst Seidemann (* 18th January 1902 in Garlin ; † 27. December 1967 in Braunschweig ) was a German Luftwaffe General of the Air Force in World War II .

Life

Seidemann joined the state hunter corps on January 15, 1919 as a volunteer under General Georg Maercker , where he changed to the cadet corps on March 1, 1919 . After his basic training, which ended at the end of September 1919, Seidemann became an officer candidate in the 9th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr in Potsdam on September 29, 1919 . He later worked there until the end of March 1928 as an ensign and platoon leader . From April 1928 to October 1929 Seidemann graduated together with Paul Deichmann , Rudolf Meister and Kurt Pflugbeil, among othersa secret pilot training in Lipetsk in the Soviet Union .

From April 1933 to September 1933 he served at the commandant's office in Munich and from October 1933 to the end of September 1934 as an officer for special use by the Chief of Army Command, where Seidemann completed a secret general staff training.

In 1932 and 1934 he took part in the European sightseeing flight and took first place in the rally competition with a Heinkel He 64b , in 1934 with a Fieseler Fi 97 first place in the short landing competition and third place in the final result. In May 1937 he won the Isle of Man air race, among other things. Through his sporting successes he achieved international renown, including in Great Britain.

On October 1, 1934, Seidemann joined the Luftwaffe, which was being established. Until the end of June 1936 he was initially a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Aviation ; from July 1936 to March 1938 he was group leader in the 1st Department of the General Staff of the Air Force. From April 1, 1938 to November 30, 1938 he was in command of the III. Group in the teaching squadron Greifswald , from where he moved on December 1, 1938 as Chief of Staff of the Condor Legion under Wolfram von Richthofen . In this capacity Seidemann took part in the Spanish Civil War; the German Reich supported General Franco and his putschists.

After his return to Germany at the end of June 1939, Seidemann was on the staff of the Fliegerführer from July 1 to December 26, 1939 . b. V. (this later resulted in the VIII. Fliegerkorps ; both positions of the commander were occupied by Wolfram von Richthofen, among others) in Army Group South . On December 27, 1939, Seidemann was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the 8th Air Corps, which he led until August 5, 1940 as part of the Western campaign . Colonel Rudolf Meister took command on October 16, 1940.

Seidemann was posted to the staff of Air Fleet Command 2 on August 6, 1940 , where he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of Air Fleet 2 under the command of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in Braunschweig on October 10, 1940 . He stayed there until the end of July 1942 and was awarded the Knight's Cross on March 20, 1942 . On August 24, 1942, Seidemann was appointed Pilot Africa . He replaced General Otto Hoffmann von Waldau there and then served in this position until February 11, 1943. On February 12, 1943, the Fliegerführer Afrika was given the new designation Fliegerkorps Tunis , whose commanding General Seidemann was also appointed. He then led the corps until the surrender of Army Group Africa on May 14, 1943, was flown out to Germany in time and took over the 8th Air Corps as commanding general on May 18, 1943 . In this role he took part in the Citadel Company and received the Knight's Cross Oak Leaves on November 18, 1944. The VIII. Fliegerkorps was then under Seidemann until January 25, 1945. From January 25 to April 28, 1945 he was in command of the Air Force Command in Silesia and from April 29 to May 9, 1945, Commander of Air Force Command 8 .

After the war, he was a member of the Gehlen Organization as a representative of the Air Force from July 1950 . Together with Adolf Heusinger , Hermann Foertsch , Hans Speidel and Eberhard Godt, he formed a “ committee of German military experts ” for the Adenauer government . Seidemann and Goth did not belong later to the group of the Himmeroder circle . Although he headed the Luft group, Werner Panitzki was sent to Bonn in his place . He himself then probably no longer played an active role in building the Bundeswehr .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch. Biblio, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 289-290.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Brütting : The book of German flight history: The great time of German aviation until 1945 . Drei Brunnen Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87174-001-5 , p. 29 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Agilolf Keßelring: The organization Gehlen and the new formation of the military in the Federal Republic . Ch. Links Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-967-4 , p. 189 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Henning Sietz: Europe's pre-war history: The Soviet army engineers have their eyes and ears everywhere . In: The time . July 29, 2010, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 26, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Manfred Zeidler: Reichswehr and Red Army, 1920–1933: Paths and stations of an unusual collaboration . R. Oldenbourg, 1994, p. 303 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Georg Brütting: The book of German flight history: The great time of German aviation until 1945 . Drei Brunnen Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87174-001-5 , p. 26 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  6. ^ Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Klaus Peters: Willy Messerschmitt - pioneer of aviation and lightweight construction: a biography . Bernard & Graefe, 1992, ISBN 978-3-7637-6103-6 , pp. 106 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  7. ^ The Airplane . Temple Press, 1943, p. 241 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Erwin Feuerstein: With and without a knight's cross: the most successful of the German Air Force; a documentation in numbers . Motorbuch-Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3-87943-349-0 , p. 105 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  9. ↑ a b Agilolf Keßelring: The organization Gehlen and the new formation of the military in the Federal Republic . Ch. Links Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-967-4 , p. 156 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Erwin Feuerstein: With and without a knight's cross: the most successful of the German Air Force; a documentation in numbers . Motorbuch-Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3-87943-349-0 , p. 78 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Agilolf Keßelring: The organization Gehlen and the new formation of the military in the Federal Republic . Ch. Links Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-967-4 , p. 464 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  12. ^ Alaric Searle: Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949-1959 . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 978-0-275-97968-3 , pp. 55 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  13. ↑ a b Military history reports . Oldenbourg., 1977, pp. 196 ( google.de [accessed on January 26, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Agilolf Keßelring: The organization Gehlen and the new formation of the military in the Federal Republic . Ch. Links Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-967-4 , p. 474 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Seidemann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidemann, Hans Hermann Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general of the aviators
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Garlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1967
Place of death Braunschweig