Paul von Hase

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Paul von Hase
Paul von Hase
Born	(1885-07-24)24 July 1885 Hanover, German Empire
Died	8 August 1944(1944-08-08) (aged 59) Berlin, Plötzensee Prison
Allegiance	German Empire Weimar Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Wehrmacht
Years of service	1905–1944
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	World War II
Relations	Karl-Günther von Hase (nephew)

Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (24 July 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a German career soldier and figured among the members of the resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazi régime.

Biography

Hase was born in Hanover. He was the fifth child of Paul and Frieda von Hase. On 12 December 1921, Hase married Margarete, Baronesse von Funck in Neustreiltz. They had four children: Ina, Maria-Gisela, Alexander and Friedrich-Wilhelm.^[1]

He held the following posts in the Wehrmacht during the time of the Third Reich:

1933–1934 Battalion commander in Neuruppin;
1934–1935 Battalion commander in Landsberg an der Warthe;
1935–1938 Commander 50th Regiment;
1939–1940 Commander 46th Division;
1940 Commander 56th Division;
1940–1944 City commandant of Berlin.

From 1938, Brigadier-General von Hase was privy to the conspiracy plans plotted by such men as Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster, Generals Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Halder and Erich Hoepner. He was an uncle of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the famous Lutheran pastor who also took part in the conspiracy.

On 20 July 1944, after the failed assassination of Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia, Hase ordered Major Otto Ernst Remer of the Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland to seal off the government quarter in Berlin during the subsequent coup d'état attempt. Remer later removed the cordon and Hase was arrested by the Gestapo that evening whilst he was dining with Joseph Goebbels.<ref name=PlottingHitler'sDeath>Joachim Fest (1994). Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945. Weidenfield & Nicholson. ISBN 0-297-81774-4. </ref>

In the trial against him and a number of other members of the plot at the Volksgerichtshof on 8 August 1944, he was sentenced to death and hanged later the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

Memorial for von Hase in Berlin.

Awards

German Cross in Silver on 30 December 1943 as Generalleutnant and commander of Berlin^[2]

Literature

Roland Kopp, Paul von Hase. Von der Alexander-Kaserne nach Plötzensee. Eine deutsche Soldatenbiographie 1885–1944; Münster – Hamburg – London (LIT) 2001
Heinrich Bücheler, Paul von Hase. Der Wehrmachtkommandant von Groß-Berlin 1940–1944; in: Damals 7 (Juli 1984), 611 ff.

References

↑ Familientafel 1996, Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, editor, Munchen, Germany.
↑ Patzwall and Scherzer 2001, p. 543.

Bibliography

Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8.

External links

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Paul von Hase in the German National Library catalogue

Military offices
Preceded by Generalmajor Karl Kriebel	Commander of 56. Infanterie-Division July 1940 – November 1940	Succeeded by Generalleutnant Karl von Oven

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 5840502 LCCN: n2002022805 GND: 123433479

Persondata
Name	Hase, Paul von
Alternative names
Short description	German general
Date of birth	24 July 1885
Place of birth	Hanover, German Empire
Date of death	8 August 1944
Place of death	Berlin, Plötzensee Prison

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