Werner Schmidt-Hammer (General)

Werner Schmidt-Hammer (born September 26, 1894 in Hartmannsdorf (near Chemnitz) , † January 4, 1962 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Schmidt-Hammer married the daughter of the entrepreneur Edmund Meinel from Tannenbergsthal in 1936 . They lived on his estate at Schloss Freienfels in the community of Freienfels .

Military career

With the outbreak of World War I, Schmidt-Hammer volunteered for the Saxon Army and served from mid-August 1914, first in the 2nd Uhlan Regiment No. 18 and from October 21, 1915 as a reserve lieutenant in the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm II . von Württemberg “(6th Royal Saxon) No. 105 . For his service in the Battle of Verdun he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry on May 9, 1916 .

After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he was chief of the 11th Company of the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment and was promoted to captain on October 1st, 1929 . With the formation of the Wehrmacht he was appointed commander of the 1st Battalion in Infantry Regiment 31. From August 1, 1938, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

At the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939 he served in Infantry Regiment 31, but moved in the same year to Infantry Regiment 417 and a year later on December 15, 1940 to Infantry Regiment 456 he was colonel and received the German Cross in Gold on March 11, 1943 as commander of the 417 Grenadier Regiment. On December 1, 1943, he was promoted to major general and transferred to the 168th Infantry Division . From June 1, 1944, he was listed as Lieutenant General. For his achievements he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on September 2, 1944 . On September 12, 1944, he took over as commander of the 168th Infantry Division. In 1945 he was the commanding general of the LXXII. Army Corps .

Schmidt-Hammer was a Soviet prisoner of war until October 1955.

literature

Wolf Keiling : The generals of the army. Friedberg 1983.

Individual evidence

↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 586.
↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 672.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt-Hammer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lieutenant General in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hartmannsdorf (near Chemnitz)
DATE OF DEATH	4th January 1962
Place of death	Landau in the Palatinate , Germany

[1] The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736–1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 586.

[2] Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 672.