Hans von Haeften

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Hans Maximilian Gustav von Haeften (born June 13, 1870 at Gut Fürstenberg near Xanten ; † June 9, 1937 in Gotha ) was a German major general and from 1931 to 1935 President of the Reichsarchiv in Potsdam .

family

Haeften came from the old Geldern noble family Haeften . He was the son of the Prussian state archivist August von Haeften (1832–1871) and his wife Elisabeth, born von Hochwächter (1840–1916).

Haeften married Agnes von Brauchitsch (1869–1945), the sister of the future Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, in Berlin on March 21, 1903 . The daughter Elisabeth (1903–1980) and the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944 Hans Bernd (1905–1944) and Werner (1908–1944) came from this marriage .

Career

After visiting the school Haeften came on March 26, 1889 as a cadet in the 2nd Guards Regiment walk the Prussian army and was there on September 20, 1890 to second lieutenant promoted. On March 22, 1897, he was transferred to the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 . As a prime lieutenant , Haeften graduated from the War Academy from 1899 to 1901, and from March 1904 was a captain in the General Staff . Two years later, he was employed by the staff of the II Army Corps . From October 1, 1907 to May 2, 1910, Haeften was company commander in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 . Then he did general staff duty again. First with the 38th Division , then again with the General Staff.

During the First World War , Major von Haeften served first as First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the Guard Reserve Corps , then as personal adjutant to Chief of Staff Moltke the Elder. J. (1st OHL ) and head of the "War Intelligence Unit East" in Posen . Here he first came into contact with the leaders of the later 3rd OHL, Hindenburg and Ludendorff . After an interview with the Empress on the question of the supreme command on behalf of Ober Ost in January 1915, his chief employer transferred him as a punishment. His former opponent Falkenhayn brought him to Berlin in July 1916 as head of the military position at the Foreign Office . There he played a key role in founding the Image and Film Office ("Bufa"), which Haeften himself took over , later Alexander Grau . From the summer of 1918 he was colonel head of the foreign department of the OHL . At the end of 1918 he was the liaison officer between the Chief of Staff and Reich Chancellor Max von Baden .

After the war, Haeften was in 1919 a member of the Army Peace Commission and retired in 1920 with presentation of the character as a major general from the military service.

He worked as director of the war history department of the General Staff until 1931 and then served as President of the Reich Archives until 1935.

Haeften received an honorary doctorate from the philosophical faculty. In 1933 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Instruction - Propaganda - Trust Work - Issue 6 (2006), No. 11. Retrieved on June 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/86350ec8-f5a3-4575-bcf3-1fce0efc4c4d/
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Hans Maximilian Gustav von Haeften. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 31, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Haeften, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haeften, Hans Maximilian Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Major General, President of the Reich Archives
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenberg estate near Xanten
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1937
Place of death Gotha