Hans Hugo Dickmann

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Hans Hugo Dickmann
Hans Hugo Dickmann.jpg
Birth date 11 December 1879(1879-12-11)
Place of birth Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 3 August 1953 (aged 73)
Place of death Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Reichskolonialflagge.png Schutztruppe
War Ensign of Germany (1921–1933).png Reichswehr
Balkenkreuz.jpg Heer
Years of service 1899–1942
Rank Major General
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
Relations ∞ Frieda Dyckhoff

Hans Hugo Dickmann (11 December 1879 – 3 August 1953) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Schutztruppe, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht, finally Major General of the Heer in World War II.

Life (chronology)

Hans Hugo Dickmann (Schutztruppe).jpg
Hans Hugo Dickmann (Entnazifizierung).jpg
  • Attended Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and Kleve until 1899 (Primareife)
  • 19 June 1899 Joined the Infanterie-Regiment „Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig“ (Ostfriesisches) Nr. 78
  • 18 October 1900 Commissioned in the 6th Company/II. Battalion in Osnabrück
  • 19 December 1905 Transferred to the Schutztruppe in Kamerun
    • 27 July to 4 September 1908 Penalization Operations against the Bechoah (Jabassi District) under 2nd Lieutenant Dickmann
      • "Bang-Son was punished with the surrender of two ivory teeth and warned again. The teeth were brought in on 17 August. Almost all the chiefs had now been captured, only Fonjadima, the main perpetrator, was missing [...] On the evening of the 13 August, soldiers brought a woman to medical sergeant Gebhardt who had been found hollowing out a tree trunk. After many questions, she finally admitted that [Fo] ordered her to make a drum because he wanted to stretch the white man's skin on it. She supposedly didn't know his whereabouts [...] The insubordinate Betschoa and the tribes that work together with them, Bafun, Njokom, Fonja, were punished and subjugated [...] The war tax was delivered to Jabassi: approx. 488 kg of ivory, 178 penal workers, 50 goats; 12 barrels of powder were destroyed."
    • Topographical submissions for the Reich Colonial Office, published in the map The river basins of the Mungo and lower Wuri
      • Site plan of the Johann Albrechts-Höhe station (1909), 1:1,000
      • Sketch of the Johann Albrechts-Höhe district (1909), 1:500,000
      • Sketch of the Mundame post (1909), 1:25,000 (1 sheet)
      • Sketch of the street Johann Albrechts-Höhe - Mbonge (1909), 1:150,000
      • Sketch of the path Johann Albrechts-Höhe - Posten Mbo (1909), 1:200,000
      • Sketch of the Rio del Rey district (1909), 1: 200,000
    • as of rank list 1913 Commanded to serve with the governor of Kamerun Dr. Karl Ebermaier (1862–1943)
  • 21 July 1915 to 1919 POW
    • Senior officer on the island of Bioko (Fernando Po), he conscientiously cared for the 12,000 German internees
  • 1919 Released and returned home to Germany; granted leave
  • 1 October 1921 Company Commander in the 16th Infantry-Regiment
  • 1 October 1923 With the Staff of the Command-Office Berlin
  • 1 June 1924 In the Ministry of the Reichswehr (RWM)
  • 1 April 1929 Commander of Training-Battalion of the 13th Infantry-Regiment
  • 1 November 1930 to 30 September 1932 Commandant of the Troop-Exercise-Grounds Sennelager
  • 30 September 1932 Retired
  • 1 October 1932 to 30 September 1933 On the staff of Artillery Leader VI (Generalmajor Oskar Schellbach) in Münster/Westfalen
  • 1 October 1933 Director of the Recruitment-Office of the Dortmund military district command (Wehr-Bezirks-Kommando Dortmund I)
    • in 1934, the general and his wife moved from Münster to Dortmund
    • October 1940 10 days vacation in France
  • 31 July 1942 Retired
  • 1943 to 1945 Well-paid private service contract with the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (mining company)
  • 12 June 1943 His parents' house in Düsseldorf was destroyed by RAF bombs (he owned 50% of the house, his sibling the other half).
  • 6 October 1944 The general's apartment in Dortmund was destroyed by Allied bombs
  • 12 March 1945 The general's new apartment in Dortmund was also destroyed by Allied bombs

Memberships

Family

Hans Hugo was the son of Johann Georg Bernhard Hugo Dickmann (1845–1931) from Velbert and his wife Friederike Elisabeth, née Hecheltjen (1848–1918) from Obrighoven/Wesel. 2nd Lieutenant Dickmann married his fiancée Frieda Maria Dyckhoff (1881–1958) from Osnabrück. Their daughter Inge Gisela (17 October 1910 – 19 March 2009) was born in Duala, Kamerun and studied from 1929 philosophy at the University of Tübingen.

Promotions

  • 19 June 1899 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
  • 27 January 1900 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 18 October 1900 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
  • 19 February 1910 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 19 August 1914 Hauptmann (Captain)
  • 1 October 1923 Major
  • 1 April 1929 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 1 February 1932 Oberst (Colonel)
    • Oberst a. D. and L-Angestellter on 1 October 1932
    • Oberst and L-Offizier on 1 October 1933
    • Oberst (E) on 5 March 1935
  • 1 June 1942 Generalmajor (Major General)

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Entnazifizierung Hans Hugo Dickmann, geb. 11.12.1879 (Generalmajor)
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