Wilhelm Heye

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

August Wilhelm Heye
Wilhelm Heye in a photograph by Nicola Perscheid
Born	(1869-01-31)31 January 1869 Fulda
Died	11 March 1947(1947-03-11) (aged 78) Braunlage
Allegiance	German Empire Weimar Republic
Service/branch	Imperial German Army Reichswehr
Years of service	1888–1930
Rank	Generaloberst
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves
Relations	Hellmuth Heye (son)

August Wilhelm Heye (31 January 1869, Fulda - 11 March 1947, Braunlage) was a German officer who rose to the rank of Generaloberst and became head of the Army Command within the Ministry of the Reichswehr in the Weimar Republic. One of his sons was admiral Hellmuth Heye.

Decorations and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
Pour le Mérite (20 August 1916) with oak leaves (3 April 1918)
Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class with Swords (Prussia)
Order of the Crown, 3rd class (Prussia)
Service Award (Prussia)
Commander of the Cross of Honor of the House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Officer's Cross of the Military Merit Order with Swords (Bavaria)
Knight's Cross, First Class of the Albert Order with swords (Saxony)
Commander of the Military Merit Order (Württemberg)
Commander, Second Class of the Friedrich Order with Swords (Württemberg)
Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg
War Merit Cross, 2nd class (Brunswick)
Commander of the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis with swords and laurel (Oldenburg)
Friedrich August Cross, 1st and 2nd class (Oldenburg)
Cross for Merit in War (Saxe-Meiningen)
War Merit Cross (Lippe)
Hanseatic Cross of Lübeck
Commander of the Order of Leopold with war decoration (Austria)
Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class with War Decoration (Austria)
Military Merit Cross, 2nd class with War Decoration (Austria-Hungary)
Order of Osmanieh, 2nd class with Swords
Silver Liakat Medal with swords
Gallipoli Star ("Iron Crescent", Ottoman Empire)
Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit (Bulgaria)
Wehrmacht Long Service Award, 4th to 1st class.

External links

Media related to Wilhelm Heye at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Chief of the Troop Office (1919–1933)

Hans von Seeckt Wilhelm Heye Otto Hasse Georg Wetzell Werner von Blomberg Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord Wilhelm Adam

v t e Chiefs of the Heerespersonalamt of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht

Johann Edler von Braun Wilhelm Heye Hermann Reinicke Joachim von Stülpnagel Günther von Hammerstein-Equord Erich von dem Bussche-Ippenburg Viktor von Schwedler Bodewin Keitel Rudolf Schmundt Wilhelm Burgdorf

Authority control	VIAF: 30468346 GND: 124338127

Persondata
Name	Heye, Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description	German Major General
Date of birth	31 January 1869
Place of birth	Fulda
Date of death	11 March 1947
Place of death	Braunlage

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.