Willi Harmjanz

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Willi Harmjanz
Willi Harmjanz I.jpg
Birth name Wilhelm Harmjanz
Birth date 4 January 1893(1893-01-04)
Place of birth Neuruppin, Province of Brandenburg, German Empire
Death date 1 January 1983 (aged 89)
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Freikorps Flag.jpg Freikorps
War Ensign of the Reichswehr, 1919 - 1935.png Vorläufige Reichswehr
Polizei in der Weimarer Republik.jpg Police
Luftwaffe eagle.jpg Luftwaffe
Years of service 1911–1945
Rank General der Flieger
Commands held
  • Kommandeur der Luftzeuggruppe 3
  • Quartiermeister des Luftgaukommandos IV
  • Kommandeur der Luftzeuggruppe 4
  • Kommandeur der Luftzeuggruppe 2
  • Kommandeur der Luftzeuggruppe Norwegen
  • Kommandierender General des Luftgaues Norwegen
  • Kommandierender General der Deutschen Luftwaffe in Finnland
  • Kommandeur des Luftgau-Kommandos XVI
Battles/wars
  • World War I
    • 23.-31.8.1914 Battle of Tannenberg
    • 5.-15.9.1914 First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
    • 9.-19.10.1914 Battle near Warsaw
    • 22.-28.10.1914 Battles at the Piliza
    • 12.11.1914 Fighting near Lubraniec
    • 14-15.11.1914 Battle near Kutno
    • 17.11.-15.12.1914 Battle near Lodz
    • 13.12.1914 - 9.2.1915 Battle at the Rawka - Bzura
    • 16.-19.2.1915 Fighting around Kolno
    • 20.2.-26.6.1915 Positional combat before Lomza
    • 14.-25.7.1915 Battle for Schaulen
    • 29.7.-2.8.1915 Fighting around Mitau
    • 1.8.-18.8.1915 Battle near Schymanzy Ponedeli
    • 23.8.-3.9.1915 Fighting at the Njemenek and Düna
    • 8.-28.9.1915 Fighting around Jakobstad
    • 19.-26.3.1916 Battle of Jakobstadt
    • 10.5.1916 Fighting near Epoka
    • 11.5.-27.10.1916 Positional combat before Jakobstadt
    • 21.12.1916 - 4.3.1917 Positional combat before Verdun
    • 5.3.-5.4.1917 Fighting at the Aisne
    • 6.4.- 27.5.1917 Second Battle of the Aisne and Battle of the Hills of Champagne
    • 28.5.-Dez.1917 Positional combat of the Chemin des Dames
    • Dez.1917 - März 1918 Fighting in the Vosges mountains
    • 9.4.-18.4.1918 Fourth Battle of Ypres
    • 19.4.-Nov.1918 Combat of the 6th German Army around Armentières - Arras
  • World War II
Awards Iron Cross, House Order of Hohenzollern, War Merit Cross
Relations ∞ 9 April 1920 Annemarie von Altrock; 2 children; 6 grandsons (among them Dipl.-Ing. Hans Berthold Beinert)

Wilhelm "Willi" Harmjanz (4 January 1893 – 1 January 1983) was a German officer since 1912, finally General der Flieger of the Luftwaffe in World War II.

Chronology

From right to left: General der Flieger Willi Harmjanz, Generaladmiral Hermann Boehm, Generaloberst Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven and SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Redieß in Norway (c. September 1942)
  • 1899 to 1911 Volksschule and Gymnasium (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Neu-Ruppin)
  • Easter 1911 Abitur[1]
  • 23 March 1911 Entered the Deutsch Ordens-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 152
  • Platoon-Leader or Zugführer in the 9th Company (02 Aug 1914-30 Sep 1914)
  • Company-Leader or Kompanieführer (01 Oct 1914-31 Dec 1915)
  • 1 January to 31 July 1916 Batallions-Adjutant
  • 15 August 1916 Commanded to the Army Air Park 8 for testing as a flight observer (zur Prüfung als Flugbeobachter zum Armeeflugpark 8 kommandiert)
  • 12 September to 9 October 1916 Commanded to the Flieger-Ersatzabteilung 9 in Darmstadt
  • 10 October to 8 November 1916 Commanded to the officer radio course in Warsaw (zum Offzier-Funkerkurs nach Warschau kommandiert)
  • 9 November to 11 December 1916 Commanded to the artillery observer school in Juteborg (zur Artilleriebeobachterschule nach Jüteborg kommandiert)
  • 16.12.1916 Transferred to the Fliegerabteilung 253 (Artillerie) as Observer of the Fliegertruppe
    • 7 February 1917 Air combat victory (Luftsieg) as observer and airplane Kommandant (because of his higher rank); for both their first.
      • On 7 February 1917, the crew of Leutnant der Reserve Georg Meyer (b. 11 January 1893 in Bremen; d. 15 September 1926 in Magdeburg) and Oberleutnant Willi Harmjanz was credited with a Nieuport near Lemmes, while part of the Fliegerabteilung 253 (Artillerie). Both members of the crew were given credit (which was normal) and received the Ehrenbecher. Georg Meyer then served briefly in Jasta 22, then a longer period (in 1917) in Jasta 7 (3 victories). On 14 April 1918, he became leader of the Jasta 37 where he started scoring steadily, ending the war with 23 official credits, plus one unprocessed victory (with which he is usually credited). On 5 November 1918, he was recommended for the Blue Max. The recommendation died with the German Empire upon the emperor's abdication. On 22 January 1920, the Prussian National Assembly decided that Meyer should be awarded the Blue Max later. However, it is uncertain if this ever happened. Meyer remained in aviation. By 1926, he was head of the airline training school at Magdeburg. Flieger-As Georg Meyer was killed in a motorcycle accident on 15 September 1926.
  • 1 to 28 July 1917 Commanded to the course for photo officers (zum Lehrgang für Lichtbild-Offiziere kommandiert)
  • 19 November 1918 Return to the Deutsch Ordens-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 152
  • 1 December 1918 Company Leader (Kompanieführer) within the Grenzschutz Ost
  • 22 August 1919 On leave from the preliminary or provisional Reichswehr
  • 23 August 1919 Accepted as a police lieutenant (Polizei-Oberleutnant) in the state police
    • until the beginning of October 1919 leader of a hundred of the security police in Gleiwitz (Hundertschaftsführer der Sicherheitspolizei Gleiwitz)
  • 20 January 1920 Officially discharged from the preliminary or provisional Reichswehr
  • October 1919 to February 1920 independent leader of a hundred of the security police in Ratibor (selbständiger Hundertschaftsführer der Sicherheitspolizei Ratibor)
  • March to November 1920 independent leader of the voting police (Abstimmungspolizei) in Ratibor (selbständiger Hundertschaftsführer der Apo Ratibor)
  • 1 December 1920 to March 1921 leader of a hundred of the protection police in (Hundertschaftsführer der Schutzpolizei Liegnitz)
  • 1 February 1921 Transfer to the Stettin protection police (Versetzung zur Schutzpolizei Stettin)
  • March 1921 to August 1926 Independent leader of a hundred at the command of the Grünberg protection police (selbständiger Hundertschaftsführer beim Kommando der Schutzpolizei Grünberg)
  • 15 July 1921 Sworn to the Prussian Constitution
  • 19 May to 20 August 1921 Ordered to the higher police academy Eiche
  • 15 February 1923 Sworn to the Reich constitution of the Weimar Republic (vereidigt auf die Reichsverfassung)

Wehrmacht

  • 1 August 1935 Offizier z. b. V. of the Luftwaffe by the Reichsminister der Luftfahrt (Hermann Göring) as Lieutenant Colonel
  • 8 August 1935 Sworn in on the staff of the Air Force Master
  • 1 December 1935 transferred to the advance command of Air Force Group 3 (versetzt zum Vorkommando der Luftzeuggruppe 3)
  • 1 January 1937 Commander of the Luftzeuggruppe 3 in Dresden
  • 15.7.1939 Commander of the Luftzeuggruppe 4
  • 28.9.1939 Commander of the Luftzeuggruppe 2 in Posen
  • 1.6.-30.11.1940 Commander of the Luftzeuggruppe Norway
  • 1.12.1940 General der Luftwaffe in Norwegen
  • 27.6.1941 Commanding General (Kommandierender General) of the Luftgau Norway
  • 23.6.1944 Commanding General (Kommandierender General) of the Deutsche Luftwaffe in Finland
  • 19 December 1944 to 16 January 1945 Commander of the Luftgau-Kommando XVI in Dresden
  • 17 January 1945 On leave
  • 30 April 1945 retired from active service
  • 24 May 1945 arrested by Russian forces and deported to a POW camp in Russia
  • 23 April 1950 Return to Berlin after his release

Post-war

He enjoyed his retirement with his wife, children/in-laws and 6 grandsons. He sailed on the Wannsee with his own boat, was often in the Alps and also liked to travel frequently with his wife. – Dipl.-Ing. Hans Berthold Beinert, 2006

Family

Willi was the first child of Dentist Heinrich Wilhelm Harmjanz and his wife Martha Franziska, née Richter. Father Wilhelm was freemason (Freimaurer) and member of the masonic lodge (Freimaurerloge) "Ferdinand zum roten Adler" (Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 16, Neuruppin).

Siblings

His brother Leutnant a. D. Dr. med. Reinhard Harmjanz (b. 26 May 1898; 1932 Ursula "Ursel" Weber) also served as a young officer in Deutsch Ordens-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 152 as did his brother Leutnant Werner Harmjanz, who was wounded severly on 22 July 1918 near Valenciennes in the Somme River region of France and died in a military hospital (Kriegslazarett Nr. 7) on 29 August 1918.[2]

Marriage

On 9 April 1920, Polizei-Hauptmann Harmjanz married his fiancée Annemarie von Altrock (engaged since 28 December 1918). They had two children:

  • Angelika (b. 27 January 1921; d. 11 March 2004), ∞ Dr. Berthold Beinert (b. 20 December 1909 in Heidelberg[3] or Mannheim;[4] d. 15 March 1981), Historian and Hispanist, Director of the Interpreting Institute at the University of Heidelberg
  • Wolf-Werner (b. 20 April 1925)

Promotions

  • Fahnenjunker (23 March 1911)
  • Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (27 July 1911)
  • Fähnrich (Officer Cadet) (18 November 1911)
  • Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) (18 August 1912 with Patent from 23 August 1910)
  • Oberleutnant (27 January 1916)
  • Charakter als Hauptmann (30 July 1919)

Police

  • Polizei-Oberleutnant (23 August 1919)
  • Polizei-Hauptmann (15 October 1919 Police-Captain with rank seniority from 1 August 1919)
  • Polizei-Major (11 April 1930)

Wehrmacht

  • Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) of the Wehrmacht (1 August 1935 with rank seniority from 1 February 1935)
  • Oberst (1 April 1937)
  • Generalmajor (1 April 1939)
  • Generalleutnant (1 April 1941)
  • General der Flieger (1 October 1942)

Awards and decorations

Gallery

  • Willi Harmjanz IV.jpg
  • Oberstleutnant der Luftwaffe Willi Harmjanz.jpg
  • Willi Harmjanz III.jpg
  • Willi Harmjanz beim Truppenbesuch im Fliegerhorst Sola Stavanger in Norwegen am 19.6.1940.jpg
  • Willi Harmjanz II.jpg
  • General der Flieger Willi Harmjanz (signature, September 1943).jpg

References

  1. ↑ General der Flieger a. D. Willi Harmjanz
  2. ↑ Werner Harmjanz rests on the Kriegsgräberstätte in Frasnoy; Endgrablage: Block 2, Grab 264
  3. ↑ Beinert, Berthold, geb. am 20.12.1909
  4. ↑ Beinert, Berthold, Dr.
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