Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald

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Anton Freiherr von Hohberg und Buchwald ( September 21, 1885 - July 2, 1934 (date estimated)) was a German Reichswehr- and SS - Officer.

Contents 1 Life 2 Aftermath 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Life

Hohberg was born in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and started a career as an Cavalry officer in the German Imperial Army. He served throughout World War I as a Rittmeister (Captain) and was retired after 1918. After his dismissa, he went to his family's manor in Dulzen near Preussisch Eylau, East Prussia, where he started to work as a farmer. He married Gertrud von Rheinbaben (1888–1949), daughter of Prussian Minister of Interior and Finances Georg von Rheinbaben. Around 1930 he joined the NSDAP and was temporarily a member of the staff of East Prussian SS leader Erich von dem Bach–Zelewski, but came into personal conflicts with him.

On May 14, 1934 Hohberg was dismissed as SS–Oberabschnittsreiterführer (regional SS Horsemen's leader) with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. During the Röhm–Putsch, von dem Bach gave the order to kill Hohberg. Most probably on July 2, 1934, Hohberg was shot in his manor house in Dulzen by SS-Scharführer Zummach (von dem Bach's chauffeur) and SS-Obersturmführer Carl Reinhard. Hohberg was on of the few SS-members, and probably the highest-ranking one, killed in the Röhm-Putsch.

[edit] Aftermath

Von dem Bach-Zelewski was a high-ranking SS-officer throughout World War II and was responsible for the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. On January 16, 1961 he was sentenced by a West German court only for the Hohberg murder and died in prison in 1972.^[1]

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• Matthias Schmettow: Gedenkbuch des deutschen Adels, 1967, p. 144 (German)
• Alfred Gerigk: Deutschland und das Weltgeschehen, 1961, p. 285 (German)
• Bernt Engelmann: Einig gegen Recht und Freiheit, 1975, p. 328 (German)
• Heinz Höhne: Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf. Die Geschichte der SS, 1967, p. 115 (German)