Otto Hasse (General)

Otto Hasse (1928)

Grave of Otto Hasse in the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

Otto Hasse (born June 21, 1871 in Schlawe ; † September 28, 1942 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German infantry general and from 1922 to 1925 chief of the Reichswehr troop office .

Life

Hasse joined the infantry regiment "Graf Kirchbach" (1st Lower Silesian) No. 46 in Posen on September 27, 1890 as a flag boy . Before the First World War he served in the Great General Staff and was used for the inspection of the military transport system. During the war he served in several general staffs. On May 12, 1918 he was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Order Pour le Mérite for his work as Chief of the General Staff in the X Reserve Corps at the Battle of the Kemmel . From 1918 to the end of the year he was Chief of Staff in the 1st Army .

He was accepted into the Reichswehr and transferred to the Reichswehr Ministry. In 1922 he was appointed Chief of the Troop Office (TA) and promoted to major general on February 1, 1923. As head of the TA he stayed in Moscow in 1923 for secret agreements on the Rapallo Treaty with the Soviet Union regarding the cooperation between the Reichswehr and the Red Army . In 1926, as lieutenant general , he was commander of the 3rd division and at the same time commander in military district III . Promoted to General of the Infantry, Hasse was appointed Commander in Chief of Group Command I in Berlin on April 1, 1929. In 1932 he retired from active service.

Otto Hasse was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin . His grave is preserved.

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Red Eagle Order IV class with crown
Prussian service award cross
Bavarian Military Merit Order III. Class with swords and crown
Officer's Cross of the Order of Albrecht with swords and crown
Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
Cross for merit in war

literature

Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Markus Brockmann: Die Generale des Heeres 1921-1945. Volume 5: v. Haack-Hitzfeld. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2422-0 , pp. 164-165.

Web links

Commons : Otto Hasse - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Otto Hasse in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, p. 110.

personal data
SURNAME	Hate, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German infantry general, 1922/25 chief of the troop office
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Slack
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1942
Place of death	Berlin-Grunewald

[Rangliste1925-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, p. 110.