Paul Herrmann (General, 1898)

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Paul Herrmann (born April 22, 1898 in Mönchengladbach ; † September 14, 1980 in Koblenz ) was a German officer, most recently major general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Herrmann resigned after graduating from high school in 1916 as a cadet in the second Thuringian Infantry Regiment. 32 and served as an officer with the rank of lieutenant in the First World War . After the war ended, he was accepted into the Reichswehr in 1921 . In 1925 he was promoted to first lieutenant and battalion adjutant . From 1929 to 1933 he graduated from the war academies in Münster and Berlin. In 1933 he was appointed as a captain to the company commander of intelligence department 3 in Potsdam. From 1936 he served as a major and 1st general staff officer in the 26th Infantry Division in Cologne. From 1938 to 1939 he worked in the same position on the General Staff of the 44th Infantry Division in Vienna. In January 1939 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Herrmann served as a general staff officer in World War II . In 1942 he was promoted to colonel and first general staff officer of the General Staff of the 16th Army , after which he was in September / October 1944 as major general in command of the 264th Infantry Division . He handed over the post to Alois Windisch .

In 1956 Herrmann was reactivated as major general in the Bundeswehr. In the same year he came under fire for having made derogatory comments on conscientious objectors : “Conscientious objectors are either communists or cowards ; put people on a zebra uniform and they will no longer exist. ”That led to a parliamentary committee of inquiry in the Bundestag . Allegedly Hermann had only quoted one other person. Paul Herrmann was in the Bundeswehr commander in Defense Division IV and retired on October 1, 1961. After retiring, Herrmann was still active as a "permanent advisor on questions of civil protection". He signed the contract with the Hessian Interior Minister Heinrich Schneider (SPD).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Herrmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb: Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb: Diary entries and situation assessments from two world wars, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1976, p. 270 [1]
  3. ^ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (Ed.): " Braunbuch ". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968. ( Online with Google Book Search ).
  4. ↑ Hansgeorg Model: The German General Staff Officer: His Selection and Training in the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr, Bernard & Graefe, 1968, p. 117 [2]
  5. ↑ Petra Weber: The SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag: minutes of meetings 1949-1957, Droste, 1993, p. 361 [3]
  6. ↑ Conscientious objectors - communists or cowards . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1956 ( online - August 29, 1956 ).
  7. ↑ Patrick Bernhard: Civilian service between reform and revolt: A West German institution in social change 1961–1982, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005 [4]
  8. ↑ Hansgeorg Model : The German General Staff Officer: His Selection and Training in the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr, Bernard & Graefe, 1968, p. 117 [5]
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 5/1962 - Professional. (PDF) 1962, accessed March 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1980
Place of death Koblenz