People from Naumburg - Hans-Valentin Hube, Karl Richard Lepsius, Botho Strauss, Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Gotz Friedrich, Johann Georg Graevius (Paperback)

Chapters: Hans-Valentin Hube, Karl Richard Lepsius, Botho Strauss, Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Gotz Friedrich, Johann Georg Graevius, Johann Theile, Bruno Hildebrand, Christian Lobeck, Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Elias Ammerbach, Kathrin Born-Boyde, Georg Franck Von Franckenau, Johann Heinrich Acker, Volkwin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hans-Valentin Hube (29 October 1890 21 April 1944) was a German general who served in the German Army during the First and Second World Wars. He died in an airplane crash in April 1944. Hube was nicknamed der Mensch ("The Man") by his troops during the Second World War. Hube was born in Naumburg an der Saale in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Hube joined the German Army on 27 February 1909, and after officer training, was assigned as a Fahnenjunker to Infantry Regiment Nr. 26 Furst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, based at Magdeburg. With the outbreak of war in August 1914, Hube, now a platoon leader in the 26th, was sent to the front. He saw action during the early period of the war, being promoted to adjutant of the 26th's second battalion. On 20 September 1914, he was severely wounded at Fontenoy, Aisne, and as a result had his left arm amputated. After a year convalescing, Hube once again returned to the front, this time as the 26th's 7.Company commander. By early 1918, he was acting as a standing General Staff officer with the 7th Infantry Division. On 10 April 1918, while commanding the defence against an English tank attack, Hube received severe gas poisoning. He spent the next year convalescing in hospital and saw the end of the war from his hospital bed. Upon his release from hospital, Hube was given a place in the Reichswehr. He continued his role as company commander in several Reich...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17725