Kurt Hähling

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Kurt Haehling (* 7. November 1897 in Rosengarten , Kreis Angerburg ; † 20th May 1983 in Finsterwalde ) was a German major general of the Wehrmacht in World War II and party functionary of the GDR - Block Party NDPD .

Life

As the son of a businessman, he attended elementary school and secondary school.

Hähling joined the 2nd East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 52 of the Prussian Army as a volunteer on August 6, 1914 and took part in the First World War.

At the end of February 1920 he was dismissed from the provisional Reichswehr as a lieutenant and joined the police force. Until December 1934 he was with the police in Berlin. On May 1 1933 joined the NSDAP one. On January 1, 1935, Hähling was transferred to the state police in Elbing as a police captain. Before he was accepted into the army on October 15, 1935 , he completed a training course for artillery officers at the Jüterbog artillery school in September 1935. Haehling worked as captain on the staff of the Artillery Regiment 11, was in August 1937 Major and as such on April 1, 1938 commander of III. Division of Artillery Regiment 1 of the 1st Infantry Division .

He remained in this position beyond the beginning of the Second World War until January 1941, while being promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1940. Then Hähling was given command of the 294 artillery regiment, which he also led in the war against the Soviet Union . In June 1942 he was promoted to colonel and from January 1 to February 15, he was assigned to lead the 8th Air Force Field Division . After uses and a. As artillery commander 108, Hähling was assigned to the division leader course in May 1944 and from July 30th to September 7th 1944 was entrusted with the leadership of the 73rd Infantry Division . Then Hähling was in the Führerreserve , was appointed deputy leader of the 87th Infantry Division on November 9, 1944 , and finally, on January 5, 1945, was entrusted with the leadership of the 126th Infantry Division . With his promotion to major general on January 30, 1945, Hähling became division commander. On May 8, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in Courland .

In March 1951 he returned to the GDR and became a member of the NDPD and full-time functionary of the party, 1952 deputy chairman, from 1953 to September 1960 chairman of the NDPD district association in Dresden. At the same time he was from 1953 to 1963 a member of the main committee of the NDPD and a member of the Dresden District Assembly. From May 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR. From 1958 he was temporarily a member of the board of the Working Group of Former Officers (AeO).

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 5: von Haack – Hitzfeld. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1999. ISBN 3-7648-2538-3 . Pp. 40-41.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 123.
  • Peter Joachim Lapp : Ulbricht's helper. Wehrmacht officers in the service of the GDR. Bernard & Graefe Publishing House. Bonn 2000, p. 173.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR - Nazis in the GDR. Elisabeth Reichmann Publishing House. Berlin 1981. p. 216.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 119.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 359.
  2. ^ New Times from October 6, 1955.
personal data
SURNAME Hähling, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haehling, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rose garden , Angerburg district
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1983
Place of death Finsterwalde