9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 57) Flossenbürg concentration camp, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Military service
Allegiance
German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany German Resistance
Branch/service
Imperial German Army
Reichsheer
German Army
Years of service
1907–1932
1935–1944
Rank
Generalmajor
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the Abwehr (German military intelligence), Oster was in a good position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work.
He was involved in the Oster conspiracy of September 1938 and was arrested in 1943 on suspicion of helping Abwehr officers caught helping Jews to escape Germany. After the failed 1944 July Plot on Hitler's life, during interrogation, he named Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, as the "spiritual founder of the Resistance Movement". The Gestapo arrested Canaris and eventually found his diaries, in which Oster's anti-Nazi activities were revealed. In April 1945, he was hanged with Canaris and Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943...
with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland. It was led by Generalmajor HansOster, deputy head of the Abwehr and other high-ranking conservatives within...
Intelligence Organization. Early leaders of these plots included Major General HansOster, the deputy head of the Military Intelligence Office; Colonel General...
at the Wolf's Lair. Alongside Major Generals Henning von Tresckow and HansOster, Stauffenberg was a central figure in the conspiracy against Hitler within...
another more radical group: the "anti-Nazi" faction, led by Colonel HansOster and Hans Bernd Gisevius, which wanted to use the crisis as an excuse for executing...
the increasing power of Himmler and the SS. He maintained links with HansOster and Hjalmar Schacht. When the Second World War started, Gisevius joined...
of agents. Throughout Canaris's tenure it was headed by Generalmajor HansOster. The Foreign Branch, ("Amtsgruppe Ausland" in German) (later known as...
concentration camp, that condemned Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, General HansOster, Army chief judge Karl Sack, Captain Ludwig Gehre, and Admiral Wilhelm...
the Berlin Sportpalast. September 28, 1938 Berlin HansOster, Helmuth Groscurth Generalmajor HansOster and other high-ranking conservatives in the Wehrmacht...
Hans von Dohnanyi (German: [hans fɔn doːˈna.niː]] ; originally Johann von Dohnányi Hungarian: [ˈdohnaːɲi]; 1 January 1902 – 8 or 9 April 1945) was a German...
more radical group, the "anti-Nazi" faction centred on Colonel HansOster and Hans Bernd Gisevius, which wanted to use the crisis as an excuse for executing...
needed] In Germany, the Sudeten crisis led to the so-called Oster conspiracy. General HansOster, the deputy head of the Abwehr, and prominent figures within...
secret liaison between Tresckow in Russia and Ludwig Beck, Carl Goerdeler, HansOster, and Friedrich Olbricht in Berlin, taking part in various coup d'état...
more radical group, the "anti-Nazi" fraction centered on Colonel HansOster and Hans Bernd Gisevius, which wanted to use the crisis as an excuse for executing...
became heavily involved in the 20 July Plot to kill Hitler. After HansOster and Hans von Dohnanyi were arrested in the spring of 1943, they kept the escaped...
where he was hanged with five others: Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; General HansOster, Canaris's deputy; General Karl Sack, a military jurist; businessman Theodor...
intelligence Zentralabteilung – central department. Chief: Major General HansOster, 1 September 1939 – January 1944 Abteilung Außland – foreign. Chief: Admiral...
the war. This circle included Canaris, General Ludwig Beck, Hans von Dohnanyi, HansOster and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as Gehre. By March 1943, Gehre...
Executed (Hanging) 1945 Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen Major Suicide 1944 Friedrich Olbricht General Executed (Firing squad) 1944 HansOster General Executed (Hanging)...
In the spring of 1938, Goerdeler, in association with Hans von Dohnanyi, Colonel HansOster and Johannes Popitz, became involved in planning a putsch...
intelligence agency under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and Lieutenant Colonel HansOster evolved plans for a coup d'état in the course of the German occupation...
Vienna since April 1944, he worked closely with Georg Alexander Hansen, HansOster and Ludwig Gehre. In connection with his resistance activities Armster...
member, the head of German military intelligence, the Abwehr Generalmajor HansOster 1887–1945, deputy head of the Abwehr Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow...
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German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
German Resistance
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