Hans von Hößlin

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Hans Wilhelm von Hößlin with his second wife Ursula in 1934

Hans Wilhelm von Hößlin (born September 20, 1880 in Erbach (Odenwald) , † August 18, 1947 in Ljubljana ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General and commander of the 188th Mountain Division in World War II . After the end of the war he was convicted and executed as a war criminal by a Yugoslav court .

Life

family

Hosslin came one since the 17th century in Augsburg -based noble family and was the son of the chief engineer Gustav von Hoesslin (1848-1917) and Eugenie Vischer (1859-1929). His first marriage was on June 3, 1909 in Hof Lilly Schmid (born July 28, 1889 in Hof), from whom he was divorced on February 28, 1928 in Berlin . The sons Walter Alfred Wilhelm Balthasar von Hößlin (stage designer, director of the Max Reinhardt Seminar , Vienna) and Winfried come from this first marriage . In his second marriage he married Ursula Festner on April 6, 1933 in Görlitz (born February 3, 1906 in Görlitz). From this marriage comes their son Rüdiger.

Bavarian Army and First World War

Hößlin joined the 3rd Infantry Regiment “Prince Karl of Bavaria” of the Bavarian Army as a three-year-old volunteer after graduating from a humanistic grammar school in 1898 . From 1912 to 1914 he was assigned to the War Academy , which he was unable to finish due to the outbreak of the First World War .

He was deployed on August 2, 1914 as a first lieutenant and company commander with the 3rd Reserve Infantry Regiment on the Western Front . From there, on September 12, 1914, he was transferred to the General Staff of the 1st Reserve Division and on October 12, 1914, he was promoted to captain . In the further course of the war, Hößlin had various staff assignments before he returned to the troop service on October 5, 1918 as leader of the 1st battalion of his regular regiment.

In his honor, the music master of the 19th Infantry Regiment composed the “Hösslins March”.

Weimar Republic

Then he was accepted into the Reichswehr . During this time he was almost always stationed in Bavaria, mainly in Munich . From 1920 to 1924 he served in the staff of the military district command VII . At the end of 1924 he became battalion commander in Augsburg, was deployed in the Reichswehr Ministry for a few months in 1927/28 , before becoming a colonel in the 7th (Bavarian) Division's staff in 1928 . On October 1, 1929 Hößlin was appointed commander of the 19th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment . With the promotion to major general on April 1, 1931 he was infantry leader VII. On March 31, 1932 he was retired from active service with the character of lieutenant general.

National Socialism and World War II

On July 1, 1938, Hößlin was made available to the army , but he was not given a command. During the German mobilization on August 26, 1939, he became the commander of the replacement troops in Military District XVIII (Salzburg) . In November his staff was renamed the 188th Division, later Division No. 188.

In 1941 Hößlin lived in Munich at Kaiserstrasse 50.

Apart from three months as deputy commander in military district XVIII and a short time in the leadership reserve of the OKH (both in 1943), Hößlin remained in command of the division until the end of the war. Also when the unit was renamed and reorganized into the 188th Reserve Mountain Division in October 1943, later to the 188th Mountain Division.

The division was deployed under his command from 1943 to the end of the war in Italy and Yugoslavia , including against communist partisans in Croatia and Istria . With the German surrender in 1945 , Hößlin and his troops were taken prisoner in Yugoslavia .

Between 10 and 19 July 1947, the trial of 14 German officers took place in front of the military criminal chamber in Ljubljana , among whom was Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer , SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Vogt and General Ludwig Kübler, as well as Lieutenant General Hans von Hößlin. Hößlin was sentenced to death as a war criminal and executed on August 18th. By declaration of death by the Munich District Court on August 12, 1948, the date of death was set as December 31, 1947.

Awards

literature

  • Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 476.
  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 6: Hochbaum-Klutmann. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2002. ISBN 3-7648-2582-0 . Pp. 50-51.

Web links

swell

  • Genealogical private archive v. Hoesslin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Quoted from: Alfred Elste, Michael Koschat, Hanzi Filipič: Nazi Austria in the dock . Anatomy of a political show trial in communist Slovenia. Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Wien 2000, ISBN 3-85013-754-6 , et al. P. 262.
  2. ↑ a b Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , part B 1941, page 246, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941.
  3. ↑ Der Adel enrolled in Bavaria, XI, 1975, p. 589.
  4. ^ A b c d e f Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1930. p. 109.
  5. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 545.
personal data
SURNAME Hößlin, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hößlin, Hans Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1947
Place of death Ljubljana