Date of birth:

September 19th, 1913 (Jagstberg - Kreis Künzelsau)

Date of death:

September 23rd, 1944 (Maillynear Nomeny - France)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Dahn
Plot: 4. Row: 4. Grave: 1973.

Nationality:

German

Oberleutnant Alois Hübner served in the 1. Kompanie/Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment 125 in Trier in 1938-39 with which he took part in many attacks against the French Maginotline.
10 May 1940 : he took part in a succesful attack in Ermerich, southwards of Saarbrücken this action allowed the breakthrough of all his Bataillon o the IR.125.
Hübner made many prisonners alone in the street fightings in the Vosges/Vogesen region, 3 officers and 40 men.
In April 1941 he took part in the fightings at the Metaxasline during the campaign in the Balkans and destroyed a group of Tito partisans took prisonner the staff of a bataillon and his headquarters company.
Beginning 1942 he led a Jagdkommando on Kreta and took prisonner 17 British elite soldiers and avoided sabotage actions againts airfields. In October 1942, he was involved in the campaing in Africa where his Regiment was renamed Panzergrenadier-Regiment 125 and took part in the close-combat fightings in the El Alamein-Stellung as PaK-Richtschütze.
1943 : he was at the Mareth-Line in the South of Tunesia where he took an important Hill in March 1943.
15 July 1943 : after the destruction of the PGR.125 he was in Sicilia with the newly reformed Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 129 - 15. Pz-Gren.-Div.
23rd October 1943 : proposed for the Ritterkreuz, awarded the 5th December 1943. 14th December 1943 : promoted Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel.
Near Castel Volturno as Stoßtruppführer he with his 3 groups stopped a British attack in close combat avoiding a breaktrough of the German lines.
Alois Hübner was KIA the 23rd September 1944 on the Western Front during the Operation Market Garden and most probably during the fightings around Metz.
He was married with Gretel and had one child.

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• Photo: Ritterkreuznachlass des Oberleutnant Alois H�bner I./Pz. Gren. R
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• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
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  - Ritterkreuznachlass des Oberleutnant Alois H�bner I./Pz. Gren. R
  

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