Heinz Hax
Heinrich Georg "Heinz" Hax (* 24. January 1900 in Berlin , † 1. September 1969 in Koblenz ) was a German modern pentathlete , sports shooter and officer in the German army and the armed forces , most recently as Major General .
Life
Athletic career
Heinrich-Georg Hax was the son of Georg Hax , who had taken part in the Olympic Games in water polo and gymnastics. Heinz Hax also turned out to be versatile. At the Olympic Games in 1928 , he took fifth place in the modern pentathlon, where he won the individual discipline shooting and took second place in riding. At the Olympic Games in 1932 , Heinz Hax competed in shooting with the rapid fire pistol . He won the silver medal behind the Italian Renzo Morigi . Four years later at the Olympic Games in 1936 he again achieved second place, this time behind the German Cornelius van Oyen .
At the German individual championships in epee fencing, one of the five individual disciplines of modern pentathlon, he took second place in 1929 and 1931 , and third place in 1930 and 1934 .
Military career
Towards the end of the First World War , Hax had joined the Guard Fusilier Regiment in Berlin. In 1922 he became a lieutenant in the Reichswehr . At the time of his last Olympic participation, Hax was promoted to captain in the Wehrmacht .
During the Second World War he was a general staff officer in Army Group South during the raid on the Soviet Union and in 1944 became the commander of a regiment of the 11th Panzer Division . In early 1945 he commanded the 8th Panzer Division .
After receiving the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 8, 1945 as Colonel for the leadership of the 8th Panzer Division, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with the Oak Leaves on April 30, 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War, Hax had risen to major general .
After the war, Hax was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor by a Soviet military court for war crimes. When Konrad Adenauer agreed with the Soviet leadership that German prisoners of war should return home in 1955, Heinz Hax also returned to Germany in October 1955. Hax joined the Bundeswehr as a brigadier general in 1956 and rose to major general here as well. From 1958 he was Deputy Commanding General at III. Army Corps in Koblenz.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Fencing Association (ed.), Andreas Schirmer (ed.): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. Page 218ff.
- ^ Kluge, p. 899, note 232.
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Heinz Hax (1956–1958) | Christian Müller (1958–1961) | Hans-Ullrich Krantz (1961–1962) | Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff (1962–1967) | Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1967) | Walter Carganico (1967-1970) | Horst Ohrloff (1970–1974) | Eberhard Burandt (1974–1978) | Franz-Joachim von Rodde (1978–1983) | Wolfgang Tebbe (1983–1984) | Klaus Nennecke (1984–1985) | Harald Schulz (1985–1988) | Jörg Schönbohm (1988–1989) | Winfried Weick (1989–1991) | Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (1991–1994)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hax, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hax, Heinrich-Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st September 1969 |
| Place of death | Koblenz |