Hoffmeister, Edmund

Date of birth:: March 4th, 1893 (Aschaffenburg/Bavarie, Germany)
Date of death:: March 1951 (Lager Nr. 476, Asbest-Sverdlovsk, Soviet union)
Nationality:: German

Biography

Edmund Hoffmeister finally reached the rank of Generalleutnant and Kommandeur XXXXI.Panzerkorps. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets on 1st July 1944. On 23rd December 1944 he was formally discharged from German service for his involvement in the communist "Nationalkommitée Freies Deutschland". He is supposed to have been hanged in 1947 in Soviet imprisonment at Kiev. According to other sources he died in the Soviet Union in 1951.

Promotions:
22.03.1914: Leutnant
01.02.1923: Oberleutnant
01.03.1928: Rittmeister/Hauptmann
01.09.1934: Major
01.03.1937: Oberstleutnant
01.03.1940: Oberst
01.09.1943: Generalmajor
01.03.1944: Generalleutnant

Career:
Entered Army Service (03 Aug 1912)
Fahnenjunker in the 30th Infantry-Regiment (03 Aug 1912-29 Aug 1914)
Assigned to the MG-Company of the 30th Infantry-Regiment (29 Aug 1914-00 Sep 1914)
Severely wounded, in Hospital (00 Sep 1914-16 Jul 1915)
Signals-Officer of the 86th Infantry-Brigade (16 Jul 1915-11 Sep 1915)
Battalion-Adjutant in the 30th Infantry-Regiment (11 Sep 1915-25 Aug 1916)
Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the General of Artillery of an Army-Group (25 Aug 1916-16 Sep 1916)
Leader of a MG-Company of an Army-Group (16 Sep 1916-05 Jan 1917)
Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the Replacement General-Command of XII. Army-Corps (05 Jan 1917-15 Jan 1917)
Temporary Adjutant of the 263rd Infantry-Division (15 Jan 1917-27 Feb 1917)
Regiments-Adjutant of the 30th Infantry-Regiment (27 Feb 1917-01 Dec 1918)
Leader of the MG-Company of the 30th Infantry-Regiment (01 Dec 1918-01 Mar 1919)
Regiments-Adjutant with Landesjägerkorps (01 Mar 1919-05 Sep 1919)
Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the Landesjägerkorps (05 Sep 1919-26 Apr 1920)
Regiments-Adjutant of the 32nd Reichswehr-Infantry-Regiment (26 Apr 1920-01 Jan 1921)
Adjutant of III. Battalion of the 12th Infantry-Regiment (01 Jan 1921-01 Oct 1921)
Transferred into the 7th Mounted-Regiment & Detached to Subsidiary-Leadership-Training with the Staff of the 2nd Division (01 Oct 1921-01 Jul 1924)
Transferred to the Mortar-Company of the 5th Infantry-Regiment (01 Jul 1924-20 Sep 1924)
Transferred into the 10th Mounted-Regiment & Detached to the Command-Office Berlin, (2nd Adjutant of the Chief of the Troop Office, RWM) (20 Sep 1924-14 Sep 1926)
Transferred into the RWM (14 Sep 1926-07 Mar 1932)
Chief of the 3rd Company of the 19th Infantry-Regiment (07 Mar 1932-01 Oct 1934)
Commander of III. Battalion of Infantry-Regiment München (01 Oct 1934-15 Oct 1935)
Commander of III. Battalion of the 19th Infantry-Regiment (15 Oct 1935-21 Mar 1938)
To the Disposal of the Chief of the Army General Staff, Detached to the Reconnaissance-Flying-School Braunschweig (21 Mar 1938-27 Sep 1939)
Führer-Reserve OKH (27 Sep 1939-01 Oct 1939)
Commander of the 21st Infantry-Regiment (01 Oct 1939-10 Dec 1940)
Commander of the 206th Infantry-Regiment (10 Dec 1940-15 Nov 1941)
Commander of the 206th Mountain-Infantry-Regiment (15 Nov 1941-13 Jun 1942)
Führer-Reserve OKH (13 Jun 1942-01 Sep 1942)
Commander of the 61st Infantry-Regiment (01 Sep 1942-01 Jan 1943)
Delegated with the Leadership of the 7th Infantry-Division (20 Oct 1942-30 Oct 1942)
Taken ill - Führer-Reserve OKH (01 Jan 1943-01 Apr 1943)
Delegated with the Leadership of the 17th Infantry-Division (01 Apr 1943-01 Jul 1943)
Delegated with the Leadership of the 383rd Infantry-Division (01 Jul 1943-01 Sep 1943)
Commander of the 383rd Infantry-Division (01 Sep 1943-20 Jun 1944)
Delegated with the Leadership of XXXXI. Panzer-Corps (20 Jun 1944-01 Jul 1944)
Captured near Bobruysk, in Soviet Captivity (01 Jul 1944-1947)
Declared Dead (00 Mar 1951)