(1880-10-07)7 October 1880 Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, German Empire
Died
21 December 1972(1972-12-21) (aged 92) Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Buried
Munich Waldfriedhof
Allegiance
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Imperial German Army
Prussian Army
Reichsheer
Waffen-SS
Years of service
1892–1932
1934–1945
Rank
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS
Service number
NSDAP #4,138,779[1] SS #239,795[1]
Commands held
SS Division Das Reich
II SS Panzer Corps
Seventh Army
Battles/wars
World War I
Eastern Front
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of France
Balkans Campaign
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Eastern Front
Third Battle of Kharkov
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Normandy
Falaise Pocket
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Spouse(s)
Elisabeth Gerard
(m. 1912–1972)
Children
1
Other work
Founder of HIAG, Waffen-SS lobby group
Paul Hausser also known as Paul Falk after taking his maiden name post war (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972) was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation.
Hausser served as an officer in the Prussian Army during World War I and attained the rank of general in the inter-war Reichsheer. After retirement, he joined the SS and was instrumental in forming the Waffen-SS. During World War II, he rose to the level of army group commander. He led Waffen-SS troops in the Third Battle of Kharkov, the Battle of Kursk and the Normandy Campaign. Hausser was the highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS alongside Sepp Dietrich. Unlike Dietrich, Hausser was a trained staff officer before joining the SS.
After the war he became a founding member and the first spokesperson of HIAG, a lobby group and a revisionist veterans' organisation, founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. It campaigned for the restoration of legal and economic rights of the Waffen-SS employing a multi-prong propaganda campaign to achieve its aims.
Hausser wrote two books, arguing the purely military role of the Waffen-SS and advancing the notion that its troops were "soldiers like any other", according to the title of the second book. Under Hausser's leadership, HIAG reshaped the image of the Waffen-SS as a so-called pan-European force that fought honorably and had no part in war crimes or Nazi atrocities. These ahistorical notions have since been discredited by historians.
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Together with PaulHausser, he contributed significantly to the development and transformation of...
Germania and Der Führer were organized into the SS-Verfügungs-Division with PaulHausser, a former army officer, as commander. Thereafter, the SS-VT and the LSSAH...
Despite having no formal staff officer training, Dietrich was, along with PaulHausser, the highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS, the military branch of...
local branches. By December 1951, former high-ranking Waffen-SS general PaulHausser was HIAG's first spokesperson. Two well-known former Waffen-SS commanders...
Panzer Division Das Reich from 14 October 1941 to 12 December 1941, after PaulHausser had been wounded. He then was given command over the 9th SS Panzer Division...
Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. It was commanded by PaulHausser during the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk in 1943 and...
Heeresgruppe only on 22 January 1945, when PaulHausser was appointed as commander. Just three days later, on 25 January, Hausser was assigned to Army Group G; Army...
Armin Mohler Martin Mussgnug Raoul Nahrath Harald Neubauer Frauke Petry PaulHausser Otto Ernst Remer Jürgen Rieger Hans-Ulrich Rudel Franz Schönhuber Fritz...
Jacob L. Devers, commanding U.S. Sixth Army Group and German SS General PaulHausser, commanding German Army Group G. Significantly assisted by operations...
officer in the SS-Junker School, from which institution the director, PaulHausser, graduated ideologically complicit Nazi leaders for the Waffen-SS. Besides...
Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, spearheaded by the II SS Panzer Corps under PaulHausser. The XLVIII Panzer Corps, commanded by Otto von Knobelsdorff, would advance...
Etterlin, respectively. The SS Panzer Corps was commanded by General PaulHausser, who also had SS Division Totenkopf under his command. Since the beginning...
advocating sterilization of persons considered "genetically diseased" PaulHausser, SS-Oberstgruppenführer, Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS and the first...
vantage point to direct artillery fire on to the retreating Germans. PaulHausser, the 7th Army commander, ordered that the Polish positions be "eliminated"...
Tyrol to Modena by 30 August. On 3 August the Waffen-SS Generaloberst PaulHausser arrived in Reggio Emilia with the headquarters of the II SS Panzer Corps...
commanding Army Group B (15th Army and 5th Panzer Army) and in the south PaulHausser's Army Group G (7th Army, 1st Army and 19th Army). After capturing the...
division. Thanks to the efforts of Himmler, along with SS-Obergruppenführer PaulHausser, the SS Panzer Corps commander, the three SS Panzergrenadier divisions...
Heeresgruppe G 24 December 1944–29 January 1945 Succeeded by General PaulHausser Preceded by Generaloberst Kurt Student Commander of Heeresgruppe H 30...
Heeresgruppe G (Army Group G), under the command of SS-Obergruppenführer PaulHausser. The 3rd Division continued its south and east sidestepping maneuver...
until the men left to relieve Dollmann of command, replacing him with PaulHausser of the Waffen-SS. Hitler relieved Rundstedt of command a short time later...
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