Hermann Hoth (* 12 April 1885 in Neuruppin; "† 26 January 1971 in Goslar) was a German officer, who in the royally Prussian army, in which realm resistance served and in the armed forces.

Life

After the High School Hoth occurred the Prussian cadet corps and served thereafter in the infantry regiment 72. He came with outbreak of the First World War 1914 in the rank of a captain to the large general staff. In the years 1915 to 1918 he found uses as company commander, battalion commander and a boss of a flier department. With end of war 1918 he was an officer in the general staff of an infantry division.

After the First World War he was transferred to the realm resistance and dressed there to 1934 different commander and staff positions. On 1 October 1934 it was promoted finally to major general and took over on 1 October 1935 the command over the 18. Division. On 1 October 1936 the transport took place to the lieutenant general and on 1 October 1938 to the general of the infantry. On 10 November 1938 it became finally Kommandierender general of the XV. Army corps

When with the attack on Poland on 1 September 1939 the Second World War began, it was as a commander of the XV. Tank corps takes part, which the 10. Army was subordinate. With the 10. Army participated it in the year 1940 also in the France campaign and was promoted in November 1940 to the commander in chief of the group of tanks of 3. On 22 June 1941 Hoth with its group of tanks conquered the cities Minsk and Witebsk when undertaking Barbarossa.

On 5 October 1941 the transport to the colonel general and the appointment as the commander in chief of the 17 took place at the same time. Army. With this it participated 1942 with the attacks in the Donez and on Charkow and became on 1 June 1942 commanders in chief of the 4. Tank army, which he took over from colonel general Erich Hoepner (later because of the participation in the conspiracy from 20 July 1944 executed). Of 12. - 23 December 1942 he tries with the 4. Tank army in vain, the 6. Army in Stalingrad under colonel general Friedrich Paulus to frighten (enterprise winter thunderstorm). In the autumn 1943 Hoths front line is broken through by the Red Army, so that the city Kiew is lost.

On 10 December 1943 Hoth of Adolf Hitler of its command was relieved, since it was not for the back conquest of the city Kiew able. Starting from April 1944 up to the end of the war he was commander ore mountains and in the process to 15 years detention was finally condemned. 1954 it became from the detention in Landsberg at the Lech to dismiss.

See also: Process supreme command of the armed forces

Honors

• Bulgarian military earnings/service medal 4. Class
• Turkish military Distinguished Service Cross
• Knight cross of the royal-Prussian house medal of Hohenzollern with swords
• Bavarian military Distinguished Service Cross 2. Class
• Austrian military Distinguished Service Cross 3. Class
• Medal winter battle in the east 1941/42
• Honour cross for front fighters
• Tank combat badge in silver
• Wounding badge in black
• Repeated denomination in the armed forces report
• Iron cross (1914) 2. and 1. Class
• Iron cross (1939) 2. and 1. Class
• Knight cross of the iron cross with oak leaves and swords
  • Knight cross (27 October 1939)
  • Oak leaves (17 July 1941)
  • Swords (15 September 1943)

Works

• Tank operations: The group of tanks of 3 and the operational thought of the German leadership, summer 1941 (Heidelberg: Kurt Vowinckel publishing house, 1956)

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