Hans Hasse

Hans Hasse
Birth date	8 October 1878(1878-10-08)
Place of birth	Glogau, Lower Silesia, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date	20 November 1968 (aged 90)
Allegiance	German Empire National Socialist Germany
Service/branch	Prussian Army Imperial German Army Reichswehr Luftwaffe
Years of service	1898–1919 1934–1943
Rank	Generalmajor
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Iron Cross House Order of Hohenzollern

Johann "Hans" Hasse (8 October 1878 – 20 November 1968) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, finally Generalmajor of the Luftwaffe in WWII.

Military career (chronology)

Die Kämpfe zur See im russisch-japanischen Kriege was translated by Leutnant Hasse in 1907 (Berlin, Verlag der Hofbuchhandlung Karl Siegismund, 1907) from the Russian original. The book's author, Nikolai "Niclas" Lawrentjewitsch Klado (1862–1919), was a admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, naval historian and theorist as well as Professor at the Naval Academy. In 1910, he was also promoted to major general and retired 1916. After the October Revolution, Klado was named head of the Naval Academy from 1917 until his death in 1919. Klado authored well over 100 works on naval strategy and tactics, naval history and the history of naval warfare.

• Entered the Army as a One-Year-Volunteer or Einjährig-Freiwilliger (01 Apr 1897-12 Nov 1897)
• Fahnenjunker, Company-Officer and Adjutant in the Infanterie-Regiment „von Courbière“ (2. Posensches) Nr. 19 (13 Nov 1897-31 Mar 1911)
• Detached to the War Academy (01 Oct 1907-30 Sep 1910)
• In the Prussian Great General Staff or Großer Generalstab (01 Apr 1911-01 Aug 1914)
• Signals-Officer in the General-Staff of an Army-Corps (02 Aug 1914-19 Jan 1915)
• Signals-Officer in the General-Staff of the Royal & Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army-Group Pflanzer-Baltin (20 Jan 1915-30 Jun 1916)
• Signals-Officer in the General-Staff of the Royal & Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army-Group (Heeresgruppe) Erzherzog Karl Franz Joseph (01 Jul 1916-19 Oct 1916)
• Signals-Officer in the General-Staff of the Royal & Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army-Front (Heeresfront) Erzherzog Karl Franz Joseph (20 Oct 1916-21 Nov 1916)
• Signals-Officer in the General-Staff of the Royal & Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army-Front (Heeresfront) Erzherzog Joseph (22 Nov/2 Dec 1916-19 Dec 1917)
• Member of the Armistice-Commission in St. Petersburg (20 Dec 1917-24 Apr 1918)
• With the General-Staff of Army-Group-Command Eichhorn then Kiev (25 Apr 1918-31 Mar 1919)
• Retired (31 Mar 1919)
• Entered Luftwaffe Service of the Reichswehr as a Landesschutzoffizier in 1934
  • it is possible that he became a state protection officer (Landesschutzoffizier) at the disposal of the Reichswehr in 1933
• Group-Leader Luftwaffe with the Military-Replacement-Inspection Berlin (12 Dec 1934-09 Mar 1941)
  • as of 5 March 1935 Supplemental-Officer (Ergänzungsoffizier)
• Commander of Luftwaffe-Construction-Brigade III (10 Mar 1941-30 Nov 1942)
  • the Luftwaffen-Bau-Brigade III was formed for Operation Barbarossa and served on the Eastern Front. The members were recruited from labor service men (RAD) and from older, technically trained craftsmen as well as from prisoners of war and volunteers (Hiwis). The area of ​​responsibility of the Luftwaffe construction crews and Luftwaffe engineers extended to construction projects of all kinds, especially on airfields (runway construction). The units continued to be used to fight partisans and on threatened sections of the front.
  • fully activated as Generalmajor on 1 November 1941
• De-mobilized (30 Nov 1942)
• Placed to the Disposal of the Luftwaffe without being re-mobilised (01 Dec 1942-31 May 1943)
• Retired (31 May 1943)

Promotions

• 13.11.1897 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
• 27.1.1898 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
• 25.11.1898 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
• 4.8.1909 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
• 1.10.1913 Hauptmann (Captain)
• 22.3.1918 Major
• 12.12.1934 Major a. D. (L-Offizier)
• 1.3./4.1935 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel; Ergänzungsoffizier)
• 1.8.1937 Oberst (Colonel; Ergänzungsoffizier)
• 1.11.1941 Generalmajor

Awards and decorations (excerpt)

• Prussian Order of the Crown (Kronenorden), 4th Class on 10 September 1913
• Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class
  • EK II on 30 September 1914
  • EK I on 27 July 1915
• Austria-Hungary Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with the War Decoration (ÖM3K) on 3 November 1914
• Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), Knight 3rd Class with the War Decoration (ÖEK3K) in December 1915
• Military Merit Order (Bavaria), 4th Class with Swords (BMV4⚔) on 24 November 1916
• Order of Leopold (Austria), Knight's Cross with the War Decoration (ÖL3K) on 18 January 1917
• House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords (HOH3⚔)on 4 June 1918
• Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
• Wehrmacht Long Service Award (Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung)
• Eastern Front Medal (presumed)