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~SOLD~ BEHREND Hermann-Heinrich
Generalmajor
Behrend, Hermann-Heinrich
* 25.08.1898 Perleberg
+ 19.06.1987 Soltau
Awarded Knights Cross: 15.07.1941
as: Major : Kommandeur I./InfRgt 489
Awarded Oakleaves as the 421st Recipient: 06.03.1944 as Oberst
Kommandeur GrenRgt 154
Awarded Swords as the 148th Recipient : 26.04.1945 as Generalmajor
Kommandeur 490.InfDiv LXXXVI.Armeekorps
Career
Behrend was born on 25 August 1898 in Perleberg in the Province of Brandenburg, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia. Aged seventeen, he joined the German Army on 1 June 1915 with the Großherzoglich Mecklenburgisches Füsilier-Regiment Nr. 90 Kaiser Wilhelm (Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Fusilier Regiment Nr. 90 Emperor Wilhlem). Where he was assigned to the 4th Company on 15 June 1915 then transferred to the 3rd Company on 20 July 1915 and again moved on 8 August 1915, this time to the 7th Company. With this unit he was sent to the Eastern Front of World War I where he arrived on 9 August 1915. Behrend fell ill and from 1 October 1915 to 6 October 1915 was sent to the Vereinslazarett II (2nd hospital) of the Red Cross in Landsberg an der Warthe, present-day Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. Following his sick leave, Behrend was transferred to the 5th Company of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 90 on 7 October 1915, and from 13 October to 4 November 1915 to the 3rd Company of the same regiment.
He was transferred to the 1st Infantry Division on 5 November 1915. Here he was posted to 11th Company of Infantry Regiment 43 on 14 November 1915. While serving with this unit he was promoted to Gefreiter (enlisted soldier) on 4 January 1916, to Fahnenjunker (cadet) on 29 February 1916 and to Unteroffizier (corporal) on 29 March 1916.[1] He was promoted to Fähnrich (ensign) in 1917 for his bravery before the enemy and to Leutnant (second lieutenant) the same year.
Interwar years
On 1 January 1924 Behrend was reactivated by the Reichswehr and served until September 1929 in the 1st Infantry Regiment . During his service there were several short commissions to the pioneer battalion 1 as well as to the news department 1. Behrend also attended a school for weapons training in Dresden . At last he acted as a company officer in his regiment. On October 1, 1930 Behrend was transferred to the 18th Infantry Regiment, where he was employed as a company commander. He then exercised the same function until the middle of October 1935 in the infantry regiment Paderborn and in the infantry regiment 64 of the Wehrmacht. On January 31, 1937, Behrend retired from active military service as a result of a serious accident. After a period of several months, he was appointed, as a civilian, on March 1937 as the Abwehr commander of the General Command III at Rheinmetall . Later he worked at Borsig AG until the beginning of January 1939. From January 3, 1939, until the end of May 1939, he served his probationary time as a supplementary officer in the Infantry Regiment 16. On February 1, 1939, Behrend was again employed in the army and became commander in the course of the general mobilization on 25 August 1939 The 1st Battalion of the 489 Infantry Regiment.
World War II
As a battalion commander of this regiment, Behrend was wounded on the Eastern Front on September 10, 1941, and after his recovery he came first to the Reserve Reserve and from there to the Infantry Substitute Battalion . On December 20, 1941, he was appointed commander of the Group of Stripe Service of the Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine, whose function he held until July 1942. In August 1942, he was appointed commander of the service of the Armed Forces Commander in Norway, and subsequently, in December 1942, became commander of the army service for the travel trade center. On May 25, 1943, Behrend was appointed commander of the Grenadier Regiment , which he held until June 20, 1944, interrupted by an illness in October 1943. On the same day, On June 20, 1944, he returned to the Fuehrer Reserve and was appointed commander of the Grenadier Regiment on 21 July 1944. After his defeat in the Vitebsk area , the regiment was assigned to Division Group 299 in July 1944, whose commander Behrend became August 1, 1944. As early as September 1, 1944, he became commander of the revived Grenadier Regiment in 529 , but left his fortune in mid-December 1944. Once again, Behrend completed the 17-division course from February 13 to March 15, 1945, after which he was again taken back into the lead reserve. On April 1, 1945, he was entrusted with the leadership of the 490th Infantry Division , whose commander he became on April 17, 1945. The division fought under his command first in northern Germany, later in the Teutoburger Wald and last in the area of Sage . On May 8, 1945, Behrend became a British prisoner of war, where until March 1946 he was the commander of the group of prisoners named after him. On May 15, 1947, he was released.
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