Paul von Hase

Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (24 July 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a German career soldier and figured among the members of the resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazi régime.

Life

Hase was born in Hanover. He held the following posts in the Wehrmacht during the time of the Third Reich:

*1933 Battalion commander in Neuruppin;
*1935 Battalion commander in Landsberg an der Warthe;
*1938 Regimental commander;
*1939/1940 Participation in Invasion of Poland and Battle of France;
*1940-1944 City commandant of Berlin.

From 1938, Major-General von Hase was privy to the conspiracy plans plotted by such men as Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster, Generals Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Halder and Erich Hoepner.

On 20 July 1944, Hase had the government quarter in Berlin sealed off. After the failed assassination attempt and coup d'état against Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia, he was arrested that very evening. In the trial against him and a number of other members of the plot at the "Volksgerichtshof" on 8 August 1944, he was sentenced to death and hanged later the same day at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

Literature

* Roland Kopp, "Paul von Hase. Von der Alexander-Kaserne nach Plötzensee. Eine deutsche Soldatenbiographie 1885-1944"; Münster - Hamburg - London (LIT) 2001
* Heinrich Bücheler, "Paul von Hase. Der Wehrmachtkommandant von Groß-Berlin 1940-1944"; in: Damals 7 (Juli 1984), 611 ff.

ee also

*List of members of the July 20 plot
*Widerstand

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