Hans Gollnick

Infobox Military Person
name=Hans Gollnick
lived=birth date|1892|5|22|df=y — death date and age|1970|2|15|1892|5|22|df=y
placeofbirth=Gut Gursen in Pomerania
placeofdeath=Schönau am Königssee


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nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|German Empire German Empire (to 1918)
flagicon|Germany Weimar Republic (to 1933)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=Heer
serviceyears=1913-1945
rank=General der Infanterie
commands=36. Infanterie-Division
36. Panzer Grenadier Division
unit=
battles=World War I
World War II
awards="Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves"
laterwork=

Hans Gollnick (22 May 1892 – 15 February 1970) was a Prussian-German general.

Gollnick was born at Gut Gursen in the Province of Pomerania.

Gollnick entered military service on 22 March, 1912, and served in World War I as a Leutnant. At the beginning of World War II, Gollnick was commander of Infanterie-Regiment 76 in the Skirmish of Krojanty. During the war, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in 1942, and promoted to General on 1 October 1943. In January 1945 he escaped to Denmark, and was a British POW from January 1946 for a month until 5 February.

Gollnick died in Schönau am Königssee.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1914) II. und I. Class
* Wound Badge (1918) in Schwarz
* Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
* Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. bis I. Klasse
* Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz II. und I. Klasse
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
** Ritterkreuz am 27. November 1942
** 282. Eichenlaub am 24. August 1943
* Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42
* Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 26 February 1945

Hans Gollnick was recommended for the Swords to the Knight's Cross for his defensive efforts in East Prussia in April 1945. However, the request was not processed before the war ended [Berger 1999, p.392] .

References

* Berger, Florian, "Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern. Die höchstdekorierten Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges". Selbstverlag Florian Berger, 2006. ISBN 3-9501307-0-5.
* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.

External links

* [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/GollnickH-R.htm Biography of Hans Gollnick (with an error regarding POW)]