Johannes Hintz

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Johannes Hintz (born October 1, 1898 in Metz ; † May 21, 1944 in Paris ) was a German officer , most recently Lieutenant General in the Air Force in World War II .

Life

Promotions

Hintz joined the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 as a volunteer during the First World War on June 26, 1915 . First he fought on the Eastern Front , was briefly deployed on the Western Front in 1916 and stayed there from March 1917 until the end of the war. During this time he had assignments as platoon and company commander as well as orderly officer and was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on January 16, 1917 . After his regiment returned home and was demobilized there, Hintz joined the Heschkel Freikorps in December 1918 . There he remained until his conversion to the police on November 5, 1919. Here Hintz was initially of 5 November 1919 to 1920 when police in Katowice used, but moved in 1920 to the police to Hannover on. He stayed there until the end of September 1928. He then worked from October 1, 1928 to the end of September 1933 as a teacher at the Police School in Hildesheim and then from October 1, 1933 to July 31, 1935 at the Hanover State Police.

With the expansion of the Wehrmacht, Hintz joined the Luftwaffe in the rank of captain on August 1, 1935 and became battery chief in Flak Regiment 12 with the higher commanding officer of the anti-aircraft artillery in Luftkreis II . From November 7, 1936 to July 1937, he participated with the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War on the Franco side , where he was deployed as a battery chief in the flak department F 88 . Hintz then returned to Germany and to the Flak Regiment 12 . Here he was again chief of the battery until the end of September 1937 and then commander of the 1st division from October 1, 1937.

In the course of mobilization , Hintz was appointed commander of Flak Regiment 32 on August 26, 1939 , which was renamed to Flak Regiment 101 in October 1939 . With this he took part in the western campaign from June 1940 . On July 5, 1940, Hintz gave up command of the regiment and was from July 6, 1940 commander of Flak School I in Rerik . He held this post until March 4, 1942. During this time he also acted from July 24, 1940 to March 4, 1942 as the commander of the anti-aircraft gun range, also in Rerik. Subsequently, on March 5, 1942, Hintz was entrusted with the management of the business as commander of the 4th Flak Division , whose commander he became on April 1, 1943. He then led this until the end of February 1944. On March 1, 1944, Hintz was appointed Commanding General of the III. Anti-aircraft corps instructed. Hintz died on May 21, 1944 as a result of his injuries caused by a car accident on May 14, 1944. Posthumously he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945. Volume 2: HN. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 92-93.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 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. 392.
personal data
SURNAME Hintz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1944
Place of death Paris