Hasso Freiherr: Great German Politician Over Years
Hasso Freiherr von Manteuffel-Eccard (born January 14
, 1897, died September 24, 1978) was a German general and politician. During the Second World War, he led armored forces and received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. He was then elected to the German Parliament and spokesman for the Liberal Democrats. As a supporter of rearmament, it was originally the name of the new German army Bundeswehr.
Von Manteuffel was born in Potsdam in a Prussian noble family. In 1908, he joined a military academy as a cadet. He joined the Imperial German Army 22 February 1916 as an officer in a Hussar regiment. In April 1916, during the First World War, it was built in the 5th Squadron of the 3rd Regiment Hussar of the 6th Prussian Infantry Division stationed on the Western Front. He was wounded Oct. 12, 1916 during fighting in France. After his recovery, he returned to active duty in February 1917 and was posted to the General Staff of the division.
With the arrival of the German Revolution of late 1918, he was assigned to an observation post of the bridge over the Rhine at Cologne, allowing retirement without problems of the German army from France and Belgium. After the dissolution of the Imperial Army, he joined the Freikorps in January 1919. The Weimar Republic was proclaimed and he joined in May 1919 the new Reichswehr in the 25th cavalry regiment Rathenow.
He married, June 23, 1921, von Kleist Armgard, the niece of Ewald von Kleist, who bore him two children. In the early 1920s, von Manteuffel was the head of a platoon of the 3rd Regiment mounted Prussia and later became first lieutenant in the regiment. On 1 February 1930, he became commander of the platoon technique.
On 1 October 1932, he was transferred to the 17th Bavarian Regiment mounted in Bamberg, where he commanded a squadron. Two years later, on 1 October 1934, he was transferred again, this time in the regiment mounted Erfurt. On October 15, 1935, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Battalion Rifle-motorcyclists, a unit of the 2nd Panzer Division of Heinz Guderian. Between 1936 and 1937, he served as major in the headquarters of the division and as a training officer. On February 25, 1937, he became consultant to the command of the panzer troops Oberkommando des Heeres. Shortly before the Second World War, 1 February 1939 he was appointed professor at the School II Panzer troops Krampnitz Berlin where he remained until 1941. Because of the job that he did not participate in the early German campaigns in Poland and France.
On 1 May 1941, he was awarded the post of commander of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment of Rifles of the 7th Panzer Division. With this unit he entered the war under the command of Hermann Hoth who was head of the 3rd Panzer Group during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Its leader was killed in combat, and von Manteuffel took command of the 6th regiment of riflemen of the 7th Panzer Division.
In May 1942, after intense fighting near Moscow during the winter of 1941-1942, the 7th Panzer Division was transferred to France. On July 15, 1942, while the division was recovering in France, von Manteuffel was appointed commander of the 7th brigade of grenadiers of the 7th Panzer Division.
In early 1943, Von Manteuffel was sent to Africa where, from February 5, he became commandant of the Division Manteuffel, under the command of Hans-Jargen von Arnim, who led the 5th Panzer Army, which was a subordinate of Erwin Rommel. Manteuffel took part in defensive operations in the context of the Battle of Tunis, leading effectively cons-offensive and thereby blocking the Allied ambitions. On March 31, he fainted from exhaustion and was evacuated to Germany. On 1 May 1943, when he was still recovering, he was appointed Major-General because of his service in Africa.
After this episode, he was placed in command of the 7th Panzer Division 22 August 1943, thus returning to the front is where the situation had considerably deteriorated. The Battle of Kursk and the cons-Soviet attacks had undermined the morale of Germans. Despite injuring his back during an air strike August 26, 1943, Manteuffel remained on the ground and continued the war in Ukraine. After fierce fighting in Kharkov, Belgorod and near the Dnieper, he managed to stop the advancing Red Army. In November, he captured Zhytomyr and thus saved the 8th Panzer Division, which was virtually encircled north of the city.
by: Laura Steinfield
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