Kurt Hahn (officer)
Kurt Hahn (born July 22, 1901 in Januschkau ( Osterode district in East Prussia ); † September 4, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German professional officer and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944 .
Life
In 1922 Hahn joined a cavalry unit of the Reichswehr in Königsberg and was involved in the Hitler putsch in Munich in early November 1923. In 1934 he was transferred to the intelligence department of the Wehrmacht High Command. From 1935 he was employed as a trainer for radio and telecommunications technology at the new Army Intelligence School in Halle-Dölau . In 1937 he was posted to Berlin to inspect the intelligence forces. During the Second World War , Hahn was deployed on the Eastern Front before in 1943, as a colonel in the General Staff, he became Chief of Staff at the Chief of Army Intelligence and Chief of the Wehrmacht Intelligence Services in the OKW , the then General of the Intelligence Force Erich Fellgiebel .
Hahn had a good personal relationship with Fellgiebel and was initiated by him into the overturn plans against Adolf Hitler . On July 20, 1944, he was in the Army High Command in the Mauerwald camp ( Rastenburg district ) and tried to cordon off the Fuehrer's headquarters for information purposes, but this was not entirely successful. In particular, the telecommunications connections of the SS remained intact.
On August 12, Hahn was arrested by the Gestapo and on September 4, 1944, the hearing before the People's Court took place under its President Roland Freisler . On the same day Kurt Hahn was sentenced to death and hanged in Plötzensee .
Hahn was married. His wife Melanie did not find out about her husband's death sentence until three weeks after the execution and in 2010 was one of the last people still alive who had personal contact with the Stauffenberg Group. She was 104 years old.
See also
literature
- Bengt von zur Mühlen (ed.): The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court. Chronos Film GmbH, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931054-06-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eva Madelung, Joachim Scholtyseck: Heldenkinder, traitorkinder: when the parents were in the resistance . CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56319-5 , pp. 102 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2020]).
- ^ Telecommunications School and Technical College of the Army for Electrical Engineering, September 3, 2004
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahn, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Januschkau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1944 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |