Georg Hansen

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This article is about the German army officer. For the Danish photographer, see Georg Emil Hansen.
Stolperstein for Georg Alexander Hansen in Coburg

Colonel Georg Alexander Hansen (5 July 1904,

Nazi Regime of Adolf Hitler
.

Early life

Georg Hansen was born in

Panzergruppe of the Reichswehr (later the Wehrmacht). He was promoted to Leutnant in 1927, and then Oberleutnant in 1931 at the Bavarian Motor Vehicles Department in Fürth. In the same year he married Irene Stölzel from Michelau
; with her he had five children.

In 1935 Hansen became the commander of the general staff training at the Military Academy (Kriegsakademie) in

Walther Schellenberg
.

Assassination attempt on Hitler

Probably under the influence of Beck, Hansen's conversion took himself to the opposition by 1938; the official review of the crimes of the Nazi Regime might have led him to finally join the Resistance. He was one of the key informants of the resistance group led by two men,

SS commanders arrested. In addition, it was planned to have him, on the behalf of Beck, who was assigned as interim Head of State, to negotiate with General Dwight D. Eisenhower for a separate accord of peace with the Western Powers. Because of strong disagreements with Stauffenberg about the political plans after the attack, Hansen decided on short notice against personal participation and drove on 18 July to Michelau for the baptism of his youngest daughter. Although he knew that Hitler had survived the attack and that the coup attempt had failed, and despite the possibility of escape, he returned on 21 July. On 22 July the Gestapo chief, Heinrich Müller
, summoned him to the RSHA, where Hansen was arrested in the waiting room. He was put through a prolonged interrogation, during which he broke down and confessed to everything.

On 4 August he was given by the Ehrenhof (Court of Honour), formed two days earlier, a dishonourable discharge from the Wehrmacht, so that the court-martial (Reichskriegsgericht) was no longer responsible for the sentencing.

Death

On the day of the arraignment, 10 August 1944, Georg Hansen, as well as

Volksgerichtshof under President Roland Freisler, sentenced to death. On 8 September 1944, the judgment was execution by hanging at Plötzensee Prison
.

Aftermath

The Hansen family was deemed to be guilty by association. Its properties were confiscated, the wife was arrested and the five children were placed in a children's home in Bad Sachsa, where they were not permitted to carry the family name. In the same home were also the children of other conspirators, such as the Stauffenbergs and von Witzlebens. In late September 1944, the children were allowed to return to their mother, who was also released, in Michelau.

The hostility towards the family continued even after the end of the war. Hansen's widow waged a year-long fight against the

Federal Republic of Germany in the courts to obtain a pension as a war widow. But the courts denied her because her husband had been dishonourably discharged from the Wehrmacht.[3]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-297-81774-4
    .
  2. ^ (in German) Der 20. Juli 1944 Archived 2019-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand [ Memorial Center of the German Resistance ], Plötzensee, 2003
  3. ^ (in German) Till Mayer, Mein Vater, der verhasste Held [ My Father, the Despised Hero ], Spiegel Online, posted 19 July 2011

Bibliography

External links
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