Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen

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Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen (born January 30, 1892 in Münster , † May 22, 1954 in Koblenz ) was a German lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Wilhelm-Hunold was a family member of the Westphalian noble family Stockhausen . He began his military career on April 3, 1911 as an ensign in the Prussian Army . His promotion to lieutenant took place on August 18, 1912. He served as an officer in the First World War . After the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr . In 1936 he was, among other things, commander of the NCO school in Potsdam . In the Wehrmacht he was in command of the Greater Germany Infantry Regiment (motorized) from mid-1939 with an interruption until 1941. From June 20, 1942 to July 27, 1944 he was commander of the 281st security with an interruption Division . From December 21, 1944 until the end of the war he was commander of the prisoner-of-war camps in Military District I (Königsberg) .

Stockhausen was a British prisoner of war from 1945 to 1947 and was then held in Yugoslav custody until 1952. In 1945 he was employed by the British occupation authorities in their zone of occupation in Ostholstein in restricted area F as the commander in chief of the German armed forces who were concentrated there. These were held as Surrendered Enemy Personnel and, contrary to international law, were denied prisoner-of-war status.

A situation report he wrote on January 28, 1952, was smuggled into Germany from his custody in Sremska Mitrovica in the Voivodina . The document reached the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer .

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludger Tewes, Panzergrenadierdivision Grossdeutschland, p. 36 Note 15 Proof of his personal file in the Federal Archives, p. 42–49, p. 108 His successor Walter Hoernlein took up his post on August 10, 1941.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, p. 335.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kilian: Wehrmacht and Occupation Rule in the Russian Northwest 1941–1944 , p. 120. ( limited preview online with Google Book Search ).
  4. ↑ The kraal (Ralf Ehlers, Kasseedorf)
  5. ↑ Restricted area F (marineoffizier.eu) ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Roland Kaltenegger : Tito's prisoners of war: "Torture camps, hunger marches and show trials" , L. Stocker Verlag, 2001, p. 306. ( limited preview online at Google Book Search ).
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Keilig: The Generals of the Army 1939-1945 . Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1983, p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Wilhelm-Hunold from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1954
Place of death Koblenz