Military District X (Hamburg)

The military districts of the German Empire after the "Anschluss" of Austria

Map of the military district X

The military district X (Hamburg) was a territorial administrative unit of the Wehrmacht during the time of the National Socialist German Reich and existed from 1935 to 1945. The military district was responsible for the military security of the area Schleswig-Holstein , Hanover- North, Bremen and Hamburg as well as the provision and training of personnel for the army in this area. The military district X comprised three alternative military districts (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen).

General Command of Military District X in Hamburg

The headquarters were in Hamburg in a monumental building erected from 1935 on Sophienterrasse in Hamburg-Harvestehude .

Commander

The commanders of military district X were:

• Wilhelm Kniehauer 1935–1939
• Erich Lüdke 1939–1940
• Maximilian Schwandner 1940
• Peter Weyer , later commander of the 1940-1941 military district I appointed
• Erich Raschick 1941–1944
• Wilhelm Wetzel 1944–1945

POW camp

The following prisoner-of-war camps were assigned to military district X :

• Stalag XA Schleswig (in Schleswig-Holstein )
  • Main camp X Az Kaltenkirchen
• Stalag XB Sandbostel (in Lower Saxony)
• Stalag XC Nienburg / Weser (in Lower Saxony)
• Stalag XD (310) Wietzendorf (in Lower Saxony)
• Oflag X Hohensalza (in Wartheland , today Poland)
• Oflag XA Itzehoe (in Schleswig-Holstein)
• Oflag XB Nienburg / Weser (in Lower Saxony)
• Oflag XC Lübeck (in Schleswig-Holstein)
• Oflag XD Hamburg-Fischbek
• Black path camp of the Gestapo in Wilhelmshaven (in Lower Saxony)

The prisoner of war camps had been under the command of the prisoners of war in military district X since June 1, 1940 . This was initially Major General Wilhelm Schönberg and from April 1942 to December 1943 Major General Walter Schade (General) . With the subordination of the prisoner of war system to the SS, Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr became the commander of the prisoners of war in military district X on October 1, 1944.

literature

• Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand : The Army 1933-1945. Mittler & Sohn, Frankfurt am Main.
• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf.