Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured...
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corps was part of the Fourth Panzer Group under the command of General Erich Hoepner in Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's Army Group North. The Army Group was tasked...
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High Command's preparations for Operation Barbarossa, Generaloberst Erich Hoepner was appointed to command the 4th Panzer Group in February 1941. It was...
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Leningrad strategic defensive operation order of battle (section Panzergruppe 4 (Generaloberst Erich Hoepner))
8th Panzer Division 36th Infantry Division (mot.) LVI Motorized Corps (Erich von Manstein) 269th Infantry Division SS Polizei Division 3rd Infantry Division...
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18th Army and the 16th Army, along with the 4th Panzer Group (General Erich Hoepner). The Germans had 20 infantry divisions, three Panzer and three motorized...
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plot that year. The first eight men accused were Erwin von Witzleben, Erich Hoepner, Paul von Hase, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helmuth Stieff, Robert Bernardis...
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during or after combat. The commanders of the division: Generalleutnant Erich Hoepner (10 November 1938 – 23 November 1938) Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm...
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plotters including Generaloberst (colonel general) Ludwig Beck, generals Erich Hoepner and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Admiral and Chief of the Abwehr Wilhelm...
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and Erich von Manstein. Later in 1939 and into 1940, he served as the second general staff officer of Army Group A under Gerd von Rundstedt and Erich von...
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was removed and arrested by the conspirators and replaced by General Erich Hoepner. Meanwhile, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, military governor of occupied...
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Stauffenberg restrained him at gunpoint and Olbricht then appointed General Erich Hoepner to take over his duties. By this time Himmler had taken charge of the...
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this racialist ideology. In a speech to the 4th Panzer Group, General Erich Hoepner echoed the Nazi racial plans by claiming the war against the Soviet...
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(L Corps – Under 9th Army) (2 infantry divisions) 4th Panzer Group (Erich Hoepner) XXXVIII Corps (Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis) (1 infantry division)...
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Generals Falkenhausen, Erich Fellgiebel, Friedrich Fromm, Paul von Hase, Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, Otto Herfurth, Erich Hoepner, Fritz Lindemann, Friedrich...
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July 19, 1940 – Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883–1941) July 19, 1940 – Erich Hoepner (1886–1944) July 19, 1940 – Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) July 19, 1940...
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Staff: Generalmajor Friedrich Paulus) XVI Corps – General der Kavallerie Erich Hoepner 4th Infantry Division – Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen 33rd Infantry...
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(1916–1937), German Jew arrested for taking part in a bombing; decapitated Erich Hoepner (1886–1944), General who conspired to assassinate Hitler Caesar von...
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at the Russian Front as Oberleutnant in the staff of Generaloberst Erich Hoepner. He was seriously injured near Kharkiv in spring 1943. After the 20...
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command of Erich Hoepner, subordinated to the 4th Army. In early October, the 4th Panzer Group completed the encirclement at Vyazma. Much to Hoepner's displeasure...
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regiment became part of the German 1st Light Division under General Erich Hoepner, another later member of the covert German Resistance, and the unit...
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implemented gradually over 25 to 30 years. A speech given by General Erich Hoepner demonstrates the dissemination of the Nazi racial plan, as he informed...
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6th Army's XVI Panzer-Motorized Corps, under the command of General Erich Hoepner and containing the 3rd and 4th Panzer divisions, launched an offensive...
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Generalfeldmarschälle 1935–1945 [The German Field Marshals 1935–1945]. Rattstatt, Germany: Erich Pabel Verlag. OCLC 6760465. Rosmus, Anna (2015). Hitlers Nibelungen (in...
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Division was subordinated to Panzer Group 4 under the command of General Erich Hoepner operating on the northern sector of the Eastern Front. In late 1944...
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Executed (Hanging) 1944 Andreas Hermes Minister of Finance Survived 1964 Erich Hoepner General Executed (Hanging) 1944 Caesar von Hofacker Lieutenant Colonel...
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guidelines, in a directive sent out to the troops under his command, General Erich Hoepner of the Panzer Group 4 stated: The war against Russia is an important...
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Generalfieldmarshall in line to head all German armies after the coup General Erich Hoepner (1886–1944), Wehrmacht commander in Poland, France, and Soviet Union...
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Böhme Adolf von Bonin Hans-Eberhardt Gandert Franz Halder Paul Hausser Erich Hoepner Hermann Köhl Günther Korten Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Walter von Reichenau...
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von Reichenau Günther von Kluge Wilhelm Ulex Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Erich Hoepner Tadeusz Kutrzeba Władysław Bortnowski Edmund Knoll-Kownacki Mikołaj...
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antisemitic and racist policies. The commanders under Halder including Erich Hoepner, Erich von Manstein and Walter von Reichenau gave antisemitic speeches and...
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