Paul von Hase

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Lieutenant General Paul von Hase (1941)
The coat of arms of the von Hase family (1883)

Paul von Hase (born July 24, 1885 in Hanover , † August 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee ; full name Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase ) was a German officer , most recently lieutenant general and city ​​commander of Berlin during World War II . He was one of the resistance fighters in the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 .

family

Hase was the son of the royal Prussian chief medical officer Paul von Hase (1840-1918) and Friederike (Frieda) Sperber (1849-1943) and the grandson of the theologian and church historian Karl von Hase (1800-1890). One of his great-grandfathers was the publisher Gottfried Christoph Härtel ( Breitkopf & Härtel ), and one of his second nephews was the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer .

Hase married Margarethe Baronesse von Funck (born April 27, 1898 in Mitau , Latvia ; † November 25, 1968 in Vilafranca del Penedès near Barcelona , Spain ) in Neustrelitz ( Mecklenburg-Strelitz ) on December 14, 1921 , the daughter of the Imperial Russian staff captain Carl Baron von Funck, district chief in Friedrichstadt, Mitau and Bauske in Latvia, and Ella Kassack. Children from this marriage were Alexander von Hase, Ina Baronin von Medem and Friedrich-Wilhelm von Hase .

Life

Memorial plaque for von Hase in Berlin's Giesebrechtstrasse

After graduating from the Joachimsthal High School in Berlin in 1904, he began studying law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1905 von Hase joined the Kaiser Alexander Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 1 as a one-year volunteer and completed an officer training, which was followed on January 27, 1907 by promotion to lieutenant . During the First World War , von Hase completed several commands as a platoon leader and in the general staff. At the end of the war he had the rank of captain . Admitted to the Reichswehr , Paul von Hase served as a company commander in the 51st Infantry Regiment from May 1920 ; later in the 9th Infantry Regiment in Potsdam. From October 1926 to March 1931 by Hare commander was the firing range Kummersdorf . He became a major on April 1, 1928, and a lieutenant colonel on February 1, 1933 . In February 1934 he became commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Infantry Regiment. On October 15, 1935, he was appointed Colonel in command of the 50th Infantry Regiment in Landsberg an der Warthe . While still in this capacity, von Hase became major general on April 1, 1938 . In 1938 he was assigned to Artillery Commander 3 in Guben , previously always as a commander of infantry units .

At the beginning of the war he was assigned to set up and lead the 46th Infantry Division . He took part in the western campaign with the division . He held the command until July 24, 1940, after which he took over the 56th Infantry Division . He gave up his last troop command on November 25, 1940 and on that day became city commander of Berlin with headquarters in the commandant's house on Unter den Linden .

Reconstructed Berlin city headquarters, today Bertelsmann AG's representative in the capital

Since 1938, Major General von Hase was privy to the officer's corps' conspiracy plans, on which men like Wilhelm Canaris , Hans Oster , Generals Erwin von Witzleben , Franz Halder and Erich Hoepner worked.

On July 20, 1944, von Hase had the government district in Berlin cordoned off. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt and coup attempt, he was arrested on the evening of July 20th. In a trial against some of the conspirators, he was sentenced to death by the People's Court on August 8, 1944 and executed by hanging in Plötzensee on Hitler's express orders .

Awards

Posthumous honor

On July 14, 1945, the Theodor-Casella-Strasse in Düsseldorf was renamed Paul-von-Hase-Strasse in his honor.

See also

literature

  • Roland Kopp: Paul von Hase. From the Alexander barracks to Plötzensee. A German soldier biography 1885–1944. Dissertation at the University of Paderborn from 1999. (History, Vol. 30). LIT, Münster / Hamburg / London 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5035-8 .
  • Heinrich Bücheler: Paul von Hase. The Wehrmacht commander of Greater Berlin 1940–1944. In: Back then. July 1984, p. 611 ff.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelige Häuser B. Volume 22, Volume 115 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 164.
  • July 20, 1944. A drama of conscience and history. Documents and reports. Herder, Freiburg 1961, OCLC 3506079 .
  • Klaus Mlynek : Hase, Paul von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 154 (online at: books.google.de ) .
  • Ines Reich: Potsdam and July 20, 1944. On the trail of the resistance against National Socialism. Accompanying document to the exhibition of the Military History Research Office and the Potsdam Museum . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-7930-0697-2 , p. 78 f.

Web links

Commons : Paul von Hase  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Kopp: Paul von Hase: From the Alexander barracks to Plötzensee. A German Soldier Biography 1885-1944, p. 4, 2001
  2. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär : Stauffenberg. July 20, 1944. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-086003-9 , p. 156.
  3. ↑ a b c d Reichswehr Ministry (Ed.): Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres. Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930, p. 125.
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945, history and owner. Volume II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 543.
  5. ^ Hermann Kleinfeld: Dusseldorf's streets and their names. 1st edition. Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Bunny, Paul from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hase, Karl Paul Immanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1944
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee