Oskar von dem Hagen (General, 1883)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oskar Otto Ludwig von dem Hagen (born April 13, 1883 in Annaburg ; † May 17, 1940 in Putte , Belgium ) was a German major general in World War II .

Life

origin

Oskar was a son of the Prussian forester Rene von dem Hagen (* 1836) and his wife Lucie, née von Engelbart (* 1842).

Military career

On March 22, 1902, Hagen joined the 8th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 153 of the Prussian Army in Altenburg as an ensign without a patent . By mid-November 1903 he was promoted to lieutenant , served as adjutant of the 2nd battalion and rose to first lieutenant in mid-June 1911 . On July 1, 1913, he was assigned to the service of the Aviator Battalion No. 1 in Döberitz .

During the mobilization on the occasion of the First World War , Hagen became a picture officer in Feldflieger -teilung 12 and in this capacity was promoted to captain in early November 1914 . In the further course of the war he was from the end of January to the beginning of October 1915 leader of the field pilot department 7, then the field pilot department 57 and from January 1917 group leader of the pilots 3. This was followed on December 8, 1917, a position as commander of the pilot's observers School in Schwerin . From May 18, 1918, beyond the armistice of Compiègne , Hagen acted as squad leader of Flieger 1. For his work during the war, he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords, the Knight's Cross First Class of Albrecht -Order with Swords, the Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with war decorations as well as the Bulgarian Military Order for Bravery IV class awarded.

Hagen was in the on October 1, 1919 Reichswehr adopted and the Defense Ministry in the military training department uses (T 4). On October 1, 1924, he was transferred to the General Staff of Group Command 1 in Berlin, and in this position he was promoted to major on April 1, 1925 . When he was reassigned to the Reichswehr Ministry on February 1, 1927, Hagen was transferred to the Army Statistics Department (T 3) of the Army Office under Colonel Curt Liebmann . Under promotion to lieutenant colonel , he returned with the appointment to commander of the III. Battalion in the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment returned to service. On October 1, 1931, Hagen was appointed commander of the Neuhammer military training area and promoted to colonel on November 1, 1932. In approval of his resignation request , he was retired from military service on March 31, 1934.

On October 1, 1935, Hagen was employed as a colonel with seniority from January 1, 1933 in the Wehrmacht . Initially he worked as a training manager in Wandsbek and from 1937 in Hamburg in the same capacity . With the beginning of the Second World War, he was given command of the 376 Infantry Regiment on September 1, 1939, with which he participated in the attack on neutral Belgium in 1940 . Hagen was killed in Putte near Antwerp on May 17, 1940 . He was subsequently promoted to major general with effect from May 1, 1940.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1924, p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Oskar von dem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Oskar Otto Ludwig von dem (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaburg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1940
Place of death Putte , Belgium