Karl Hansen (officer)
Karl Hansen (born May 5, 1876 in Coburg , † September 1, 1965 in Meiningen ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general in World War II .
Life
Hansen came on April 3, 1897 as a cadet in the second Thuringian Infantry Regiment. 32 in Meiningen, where he was on 18 October 1897, Ensign appointed and on August 18, 1898. second lieutenant promoted. From 1904 he acted as adjutant of the III. Battalion and as such became first lieutenant on August 4, 1908 .
With the outbreak of the First World War , Hansen was appointed as a captain (since October 1, 1913) company commander in his regiment, with whom he was deployed on the Western Front and was wounded there on November 9, 1914. After a stay in the hospital and recovery, he came to the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 252 as a company commander in January 1915 and was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion shortly afterwards. From May 1, 1915 he was leader of the 1st Battalion and from January to June 1916 Hansen was commanded to lead the officer training course in Neugut. He then returned to his battalion on the Eastern Front . After the regiment was relocated to the Western Front in March 1918, Hansen also acted here as leader of Reserve Infantry Regiments 245 and 253 from September 1918.
After the end of the war, Hansen briefly worked in the Stobbe Freikorps as a battalion commander before he was accepted into the Reichswehr and served as a company commander in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 8. From October 1, 1920 he was in the same position in the 12th Infantry Regiment , where on December 18, 1920 he was promoted to major . In March 1923, Hansen was transferred to the staff of Infantry Leader I in Königsberg . On December 1, 1925, he took over the 2nd Battalion of the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment in Nuremberg . On February 1, 1926, Hansen was promoted to lieutenant colonel . As such, he was then from April 1, 1929 in command of the Ohrdruf military training area and became a colonel on October 1, 1929 . On January 31, 1931, while being awarded the character of major general, he retired from active service.
On August 26, 1939, Hansen was made available to the army and one day later, on the day of Tannenberg, he was given the character of Lieutenant General.
After the beginning of the Second World War, he was initially without a command and was appointed commander of the Beverloo military training area on May 23, 1940 after the occupation of Belgium . He held this position until he was recalled and transferred to the Führer Reserve on April 24, 1942. Hansen's mobilization provision was finally lifted on May 31, 1942 and he finally passed into retirement.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords on September 22, 1917
- Pour le Mérite on November 8, 1918
- Prussian service award cross
- Wound badge (1918) in black
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Albrecht Order
- Hessian bravery medal
- Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Cross for merit in war
- Cross of Honor of Schwarzburg III. Class with swords
- Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration
literature
- Dermot Bradley: The Generals of the Army 1921-1945, Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2538-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Ed .: Reichswehrministerium , Mittler & Sohn Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 111
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hansen, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1965 |
| Place of death | Meiningen |