Hubert Meyer (SS member)

Hubert Meyer (born December 5, 1913 in Berlin ; † November 16, 2012 in Leverkusen ) was Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen-SS and First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" . In the 1950s he was a co-founder of the mutual aid community of the members of the former Waffen-SS (HIAG) and from 1969 until its dissolution in 1992 national spokesman of the HIAG.

SS and Waffen-SS

Meyer volunteered for the SS in 1933 . In 1937 he became an SS-Untersturmführer platoon leader in the 10th company of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . In 1938 Meyer's promotion to SS-Obersturmführer took place . With his train he took part in battles in Poland , the Netherlands and France . After the campaign in the west he became company commander of 10th Company (later renamed 12th Company). In 1940 he became SS-Hauptsturmführer . He took part in the war in the Balkans . With the 12th Company he took part in the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. After being wounded, he was transferred to the division's artillery regiment. On February 14, 1943 he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of III./SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt 1. His unit was then involved in the Battle of Kharkov . On March 9th he was wounded in an attack near Kharkov . On May 6th, he was awarded the German Cross in Gold. From June to September 1943 he took part in a general staff course. This was followed by the transfer as First General Staff Officer (Ia) to the newly established 12th SS Panzer Division . As such, in the absence of the division commander, he was his deputy. After the division commander SS Brigade Leader Kurt Meyer had been captured on September 6, 1944, Hubert Meyer therefore briefly took over command of the rest of the division, which was no longer regimental size. On October 24th, he handed over command to SS Brigadefuhrer Fritz Kraemer . Meyer was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on November 9, 1944 .

Meyer remained with the division as first general staff officer (Ia) until the surrender on May 8, 1945.

HIAG

In the 1950s Meyer was a co-founder of the mutual aid community of members of the former Waffen-SS (HIAG) and the "War Graves Foundation When All Brothers Are Silent". From 1969 until it was dissolved in 1992, he was federal spokesman for HIAG, which he stabilized again after several changes in leadership between 1961 and 1969. When there were protests against the HIAG in the 1980s, Meyer described its participants in internal correspondence as "primitive", "stupid", "unscrupulous", "chaos", "cowards", "bums", "rabble" and " Pack". After Chancellor Helmut Kohl's state visit to Israel in the summer of 1983 was criticized for the fact that HIAG was no longer included in the reports on the protection of the constitution, Meyer thanked Kohl in a letter that he had defended his interior minister's decision and assured him that HIAG members opposed war crimes.

Meyer wrote a war history of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth". in two volumes. The publication was published by Munin-Verlag , which “was founded by HIAG, among other things, with the explicit aim of writing the war history of the Waffen SS together with the troop comrades”. In it Meyer mentions that as early as 1954, together with Major General of the Waffen SS, Kurt Meyer , whose first General Staff officer he had been in 1944, he did "a joint study on the deployment of the 12th SS Panzer Division" for the Historical Division of the US Army. Hitler Youth 'during the invasion fighting in France from June to September 1944 ”. The book was also published in French ( Album Historique: 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend ; Éditions Heimdal, Bayeux 1991, translated by Georges Bernage), in English ( The history of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” . JJ Fedorowicz, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1994 and The 12th SS: the history of the Hitler Youth panzer division ; Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 2005, translated by H. Harri Henschler) and in Japanese ( ヒットラー・ユーゲント: SS 第 12 戦車師団史 ; Dai Nihon Kaiga, Tōkyō 1998, translated by Yūko Mukai and Masatomo Miki). The historian Peter Lieb judged the script to be “extremely material-rich work”, but Meyer's depiction of the division remained selective, although he had tried to “provide a comparatively objective picture”.

Fonts

War history of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth". 2 volumes. Munin-Verlag , Osnabrück 1982; ISBN 3-921242-51-7 . 3rd edition at Nation Europa , Coburg 1996; ISBN 3-920677-27-7 .

literature

Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

Web links

Literature by and about Hubert Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 308.
↑ Journal of History . Volume 29, issues 7-12, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1981, p. 664.
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 109 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 278 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 354 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
↑ War history of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth". Volume 1. Munin-Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, p. 9.
↑ Peter Lieb: Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? : Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 114, FN. 319

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS and First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth"
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 2012
Place of death	Leverkusen

[1] Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Publishing house Klaus D. Patzwall. Norderstedt 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X . P. 308.

[2] Journal of History . Volume 29, issues 7-12, VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1981, p. 664.

[3] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 109 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[4] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 278 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[5] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 354 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[6] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 379 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[7] War history of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth". Volume 1. Munin-Verlag, Osnabrück 1982, p. 9.

[8] Peter Lieb: Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? : Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 114, FN. 319