Hitter, Alfons

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Name
Hitter, Alfons Gender: M
Alfons Clemens Hitter
born on 4 June 1892 at 06:30 (= 06:30 AM )
Place Hochstatt, France, 47n4210, 7e1636
Timezone CET h1e (is standard time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.svg s_gemcol.18.svg 14°01' s_mo.18.svg s_libcol.18.svg 04°08 Asc.s_cancol.18.svg 09°57'



Alfons Hitter (second from right, and corps commander Gollwitzer surrender to Soviet forces)

Biography

German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 206th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

Hitter surrendered to the Soviet forces during Operation Bagration when his division was encircled and destroyed at Vitebsk. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held in prison for eleven years, joining the National Committee for a Free Germany while in captivity. He was released in 1955.

He died on 11 March 1968 in Thomasberg.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield forwarded birth certificate n°22 from the online Haut-Rhin departmental archives, image 285/297: "Vormittags sechs ein halb Uhr" (half past six in the morning). Death data in margin.

Categories

  • Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (War criminal)
  • Vocation : Military : Honors
  • Vocation : Military : Military career
  • Vocation : Politics : Nazi party