Hermann Hohn

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Hermann Hohn (born October 11, 1897 in Renchen , † November 13, 1968 in Ladenburg ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General of the Army of the Wehrmacht in World War II . From 1953 to 1965 he was mayor of Ladenburg as a candidate for a free voter association.

Life

Promotions

First World War

Hohn entered after the outbreak of World War I as a volunteer on January 15, 1915, the III. Recruit depot of the Lower Saxony Foot Artillery Regiment No. 10 . On March 8, 1915, he transferred to the 4th battery of the replacement battalion. From April 15, 1915 to April 30, 1916 he was with the 23rd Artillery Measuring Squad, briefly returned to the replacement battalion and then on August 24, 1916 to the staff of the foot artillery battalion No. 66. On October 14, 1916 followed Hohn's transfer to the 2nd battery of the 4th Lorraine Field Artillery Regiment No. 70 . From April 11 to June 7, 1917, he was commanded to attend the Fahnenjunker course in Jüterbog . Back on the Western Front , Hohn was assigned to the replacement battalion of the Lorraine Foot Artillery Regiment No. 16 in July 1917 , where he remained until August 20, 1917. Subsequently, Hohn joined the foot artillery battalion No. 32.

Weimar Republic

After the end of the war , on December 19, 1918, Hohn was transferred to the replacement battalion of the 2nd West Prussian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 17 , to which he belonged until the demobilization in January 1919. Subsequently, until the beginning of April 1919, he was employed as a battery leader in the I. Department of the Lorraine Foot Artillery Regiment No. 16 and then in the Dieskau Volunteer Foot Artillery Department and the Reichswehr Brigade 8. On December 31, 1920, Hohn retired from military service .

In 1922 he began studying political science at the University of Heidelberg and worked from 1923 to 1929 as an employee in a bank branch. In the same year, Hohn began studying business administration at the Mannheim University of Commerce . In 1933 he was at the now incorporated into the University of Heidelberg University with a thesis on possibility and necessity of intensive internal colonization east of the Elbe doctorate . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Stauffia Heidelberg (in the Sondershäuser Association ).

time of the nationalsocialism

On September 1, 1935, Hohn, in the rank of captain of the reserve , was reactivated for the army of the Wehrmacht and assigned to the Regensburg infantry regiment. In October 1935 he was assigned to the 62nd Infantry Regiment, in which he was employed as a company commander until the end of September 1936 . Hohn held the same function until October 1937 in Infantry Regiment 82 and then until June 1939 in Infantry Regiment 74.

In July 1939, Hohn was assigned to the General Command of the Eifel Border Troops, where he held the function of 1st Adjutant ( IIa ) in personnel administration for officers. In September 1939 this existing General Command was transferred to the General Command of the XXIII. Army Corps renamed. In November of the same year, Hohn was assigned as adjutant in the 72nd Infantry Division . With this he took part in the campaign in the west in the spring of 1940 and subsequently remained as an occupying power for the medium term . On December 1, 1940, Hohn was appointed battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 105 Infantry Regiment. The regiment initially took part in the Balkan campaign as part of the 72nd Infantry Division and, after the start of Operation Barbarossa , was in the southern section of the Eastern Front from June 1941 . The regiment then took part in the conquest of the Crimean peninsula and in the summer of 1942 in the Battle of Sevastopol . Subsequently, from July 13 to September 16, 1942, Hohn was entrusted with the command of the 124th Infantry Regiment, which was initially also deployed as a "sister regiment" in the Crimea, from August 1942 in the central section of the Eastern Front. On October 1, 1942, Hohn rose to the command of the 105 Infantry Regiment, which was renamed the 105 Grenadier Regiment on October 15, 1942. As part of the 72nd Infantry Division, Hohn led the regiment in the central section of the Eastern Front in the Rzhev area . On July 1, 1943, he was entrusted with the leadership of the 72nd Infantry Division, which took part in Operation Citadel under his command . After the offensive was discontinued, Hohn's division was pushed onto the defensive under pressure from the Red Army and was involved in retreat skirmishes until mid-November 1943. In December, as part of the Soviet Dnepr-Carpathian operation , the division got into the Cherkassy pocket and was trapped. There the division went into defensive position southeast of Chilki. At the beginning of February 1944, the division was in the north-western part of the boiler, where Hohn forced the breakout. The remnants of the 72nd Infantry Division reached the German lines at Lissyanka around mid-February 1944. Then the remnants of the division were relocated to Vladimir Volynsk for refreshment .

Meanwhile, Hermann Hohn was transferred to the Führerreserve to attend a division course until the end of May 1944. On July 1, 1944, he was reappointed commander of the 72nd Infantry Division , which he then commanded until shortly before the end of the war in 1945. On November 9, 1944, Major General Hohn was awarded the "Swords for Oak Leaves of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross". Then, the Division held its positions on the bridgehead of Baranov . With the beginning of the Russian winter offensive on January 12, 1945, it withdrew with heavy losses to the so-called "fortress" Glogau . The combat group of the 72nd Inf.-Div. First held their positions in heavy defensive battles, but then backed away from the Russian attacks. On April 20, 1945, Hohn handed over command of the division to Lieutenant General Hugo Beißwänger , because he was with the leadership of the IX. Army corps in the area of Army Group Center . While the majority of the subordinate units fell into Soviet captivity at the end of the war , Mockery was able to move west to surrender to the US American - British troops there on May 9, 1945 .

post war period

On February 23, 1948 he was released from captivity and settled in Ladenburg. There he was mayor of the city from 1953 to 1965. He became honorary chairman of the FV 1903 eV Ladenburg. and was also at the club of dog friends Ladenburg / N. von 1910 eV active.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. Volume 6: Hochbaum-Klutmann. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf. ISBN 3-7648-2582-0 . Pp. 99-101.
  • Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag. Friedberg 1983. ISBN 3-7909-0202-0 . P. 149.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 570396484
  2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 61.
  3. ↑ Club history
  4. ^ Association chronicle ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vdh-ladenburg.de
  5. ↑ a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 401.
  6. ↑ The High Command of the Wehrmacht announces ... The German Wehrmacht Report , Volume 2 1942–1943, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-7648-1282-6 , p. 622.
  7. ↑ The High Command of the Wehrmacht announces ... The German Wehrmacht Report , Volume 3 1942–1943, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-7648-1282-6 , p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Mockery, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Renchen
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1968
Place of death Ladenburg