Wilhelm Hasse (24 November 1894 – 21 May 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Hasse was born in Neiße, then part of the German Province of Silesia (today, Nysa, Poland) in 1894. He entered the Imperial German Army in 1914 and fought in World War I as a junior officer and a regimental adjutant. At the end of the war, he remained in the peacetime Reichswehr as a career officer and served in several staff postings on the general staff. In World War II, he was a divisional and corps commander, and commanded the 17th Army in the final months of the war in Europe. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Captured by the Red Army, Hasse died in a prisoner of war camp on 21 May 1945 of wounds sustained earlier that month.
Awards and decorations Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (17 September 1914) & 1st Class (21 April 1915)Thomas 1997, p. 252. Knight's Cross of the House Order of Hohenzollern with swordsReichswehrministerium (Ed.): Rangliste des Deutschen Reichsheeres. E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin: 1930, p. 145. Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg Wound Badge, in black (1914) Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (11 September 1939) & 1st Class (2 October 1939) German Cross in Gold on 26 January 1942 as Oberst im Generalstab (in the General Staff) of AOK 18Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 168. Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Knight's Cross on 12 August 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of 30 Infanterie-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 179. Oak Leaves on 14 January 1945 as General der Infanterie and commander of II. ArmeekorpsFellgiebel 2000, p. 79.
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