Hilmar Moser

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Hilmar Hermann Moser (born November 5, 1880 in Langenorla , † July 11, 1968 in Degerndorf am Inn ) was a German officer, most recently Lieutenant General of the Army and SS group leader in World War II .

Life

Moser joined the army in the spring of 1902 and took part in the First World War. After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr and served as commander of the Jüterbog artillery firing range from the beginning of April 1932 until he was retired from the army at the end of June 1937 .

At the beginning of May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,981,943). With the rank of SS-Oberführer he was transferred to the Schutzstaffel (SS-No. 309.713) on September 11, 1938 and in April 1944 he achieved the rank of SS-Gruppenführer in this organization.

With the beginning of the Second World War , Moser was reactivated as an officer in the Wehrmacht . At first he was the commander of the Artillery Replacement Regiment 45 and from the end of 1939 commander of the divisional deployment staff in Vienna. Then he was commander of the officer selection course in military district XVII.

From June 24, 1941, he was in command of the Oberfeldkommandantur (OFK) 372. In this function, he had the Sobibór uprising suppressed in October 1943 by a division of a guard battalion under his control . From May 10, 1944 until his capture by Red Army soldiers on July 25, 1944, he was in command of a section of the fortress near Lublin . On August 29, 1944, Moser issued a declaration to the Red Army High Command regarding his knowledge of the events in the Majdanek concentration camp . Moser was expelled from the General SS in 1944 after a trial .

After the end of the war, Moser was on a list drawn up by Lawrenti Beria at the end of August 1945 , which contained the names of potential war criminals for indictment before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. In May 1946 he was transferred to Poland from a Soviet internment. He was sentenced to seven years in prison in Lublin and released to the Federal Republic of Germany in December 1953. Moser took up residence in Degerndorf am Inn in Upper Bavaria , where he died on July 11, 1968 at the age of 87.

Awards

Moser's military and SS ranks
date rank
1902 Flagjunker
August 1903 lieutenant
August 1911 First lieutenant
November 1914 Captain
May 1926 major
February 1932 Lieutenant colonel
February 1933 Colonel
November 1935 Major general
September 11, 1938 SS-Oberführer
April 1, 1942 Lieutenant General
November 9, 1943 SS Brigade Leader
April 20, 1944 SS group leader

literature

  • Wolf Keilig: The German Army 1939-1945. Structure, commitment, staffing. 3 volumes (loose-leaf work). Podzun-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolf Keilig: The German Army 1939 - 1945. Structure, deployment, staffing. , Volume 3, Bad Nauheim 1956, p. 224.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 417.
  3. ↑ The German General Moser confirms the horror of Majdanek on http://www.gelsenzentrum.de
  4. ^ Bundesarchiv, Josef Henke: Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS: Inventory NS 19 , Volume 57, Part 1, 1997, p. 452.
  5. ^ Andreas Hilger : Soviet Justice and War Crimes. Documents on the conviction of German prisoners of war 1941–1949. Quarterly books for contemporary history , 54, 2006, p. 475 ff. (Pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Hilmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moser, Hilmar Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Army and SS Group Leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenorla
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1968
Place of death Degerndorf am Inn