Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (24 July 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a German career soldier and figured among the members of the resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
Overview
Karl Paul Immanuel von Hase (24 July 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a German career soldier and figured among the members of the resistance against Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
Biography
Hase was born in Hanover. He was the fifth child of Paul and Frieda von Hase. On 12 December 1921, Hase married Margarete, Baronesse von Funck in Neustrelitz. They had four children: Ina, Maria-Gisela, Alexander and Friedrich-Wilhelm.
He held the following posts in the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht during the time of the Third Reich:
1933–1934 Battalion commander in Neuruppin;
1934–1935 Battalion commander in Landsberg an der Warthe;
1935–1938 Commander 50th Regiment;
1939–1940 Commander 46th Division;
1940 Commander 56th Division;
1940–1944 City commandant of Berlin.
From 1938, Brigadier-General von Hase was privy to the conspiracy plans plotted by such men as Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster, Generals Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Halder and Erich Hoepner. He was an uncle of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the famous Lutheran pastor who also took part in the conspiracy.
