Henning von Thadden

Henning von Thadden (born September 24, 1898 in Brieg ; † May 18, 1945 in Vordingborg ) was a German lieutenant general .

Origin and education

Von Thadden was the son of the officer and regimental commander Wilhelm von Thadden . From 1903 to 1915 he attended schools in Schweidnitz , Frankfurt (Oder) and Magdeburg . At the Knights Academy in Legnica he put his High School and joined during the First World War in June 1915 as an ensign in the Grenadier Regiment "King William I" (2nd West Prussian) no. 7 of the Prussian army in Legnica one. Thadden advanced to lieutenant at the end of September 1915 and took part in the fighting in France from November 1915 . He was wounded several times and at the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he served in various regiments.

Military career

date	Rank
September 24, 1915	lieutenant
April 1, 1925	First lieutenant
June 1, 1932	Captain
March 16, 1936	major
March 1, 1939 (with effect from April 1, 1938)	Lieutenant colonel
April 1, 1941	Colonel
April 1, 1943	Major general
July 1, 1944	Lieutenant General

In 1930 he was on the staff of the 4th Division , in 1934 he found himself on the staff of Military District VIII in Wrocław .

At the beginning of the Second World War Thadden was a lieutenant colonel during the attack on Poland in the staff of the XVII. Army Corps . In 1940 he was involved in the same function in the western campaign .

As Chief of Staff of the XVII. Army corps , he took part in the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union . From March 1943 to July 1943 he was Chief of Staff of the 7th Army .

Assassination attempt on July 20, 1944

From July 10, 1943 to December 31, 1944, Thadden was Chief of Staff in Military District Command I in Königsberg. In this function as commander of the Königsberg military district, he was in the immediate vicinity of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on July 20, 1944 , after having had a meeting with him and General of the Infantry Walter Buhle , Chief of the Army Staff at OKW would have.

family

Thadden married the 18-year-old orphan Marie-Luise Neutze in Berlin in July 1931 while he was training as a guide assistant at the Dresden Infantry School from 1930 to 1933. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

Wounding, death and burial

On February 27, 1945, he took command of the 1st Infantry Division from Lieutenant General Hans Schittnig and was seriously wounded in the exercise of this command on April 16, 1945 (other sources: April 26, 1945) near Fischhausen in East Prussia .

After Thadden had been moved to Saßnitz, his family received the last message from there at the end of April 1945. Finally moved to Denmark, Henning von Thadden died on May 18, 1945 in Feld-Lazarett 187 in Vordingborg . According to other documents, he died in Feld-Lazarett 4/608.

Thadden was buried in the war cemetery in Kastrup on the island of Zealand .

Trivia

In the film Stauffenberg , von Thadden is played by Wilfried Hochholdinger in 2004 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Hoffmann: Resistance, coup d'état, assassination attempt .: The fight of the opposition against Hitler. Piper Verlag GmbH, 1985, ISBN 978-3-492-00718-4 , pp. u. a. 487 ( google.de [accessed on April 27, 2019]).
2. ↑ Werner Landhoff: The Victims of July 20, 1944: Collateral Damage to a Higher Morality? Arndt-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88741-097-1 , p. 79 ( google.de [accessed April 27, 2019]).
3. ↑ Born 1911. Der Tagesspiegel, June 21, 2002, accessed on April 27, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 35 ( google.de [accessed on April 27, 2019]).
5. ↑ Pplk Henning of Thadden (1898-1945). In: Muzeum Śląskiego Września 1939. Retrieved on August 18, 2019 (Polish).