Hans-Karl Freiherr Von Esebeck (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. General Hans Emil Richard Freiherr von Funck a] (23 December 1891 - 14 February 1979) was a highly decorated Panzer General in the German army during World War II. After attendance at the high school in K slin. From Easter 1911 until the summer of 1914 he studied law at Greifswald and Freiburg. On 2 August 1914 he joined the 1st Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment as an officer cadet and on 18 June 1915 he was commissioned as a Leutnant. On 6 November 1915 in G ttingen he married and during World War I he was awarded the Iron Cross Class I and II. He was retained in the Reichswehr after the war and in 1923 was promoted to Oberleutnant. From 1926 he worked in the Reichswehr Ministry in the Army Training Division (T4). On 1 July 1933 he was appointed as the Adjutant of the Chief of the army and the following year, Major on the General Staff. In 1936 he served in the Spanish Civil War as a leader of the German National Army in Spain. He was also the military attach at headquarters of the National Government in Spain. At the beginning of 1939 he was appointed Military attache to the German Embassy in Lisbon.