Harry Hoppe

• 8 August 1914 Kriegsfreiwilliger (War Volunteer) • 24 March 1915 Gefreiter (Private E-2 / Lance Corporal) • 31 March 1915 Unteroffizier (NCO / Corporal / Junior Sergeant) • 9 April 1915 Vizefeldwebel (Vice Sergeant / Vice Staff Sergeant) • 13 April 1915 Offiziers-Aspirant (Officer Candidate) • 24 April 1916 Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of the Reserves) • 18 March 1918 Leutnant (active 2nd Lieutenant) without Patent • 10 December 1918 received Patent from 13 July 1915 • 1 July 1922 received Reichswehr Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 September 1915 (22) • 1 April 1925 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) with RDA from 1 April 1925 (2) • 1 October 1929 Hauptmann (Captain) with RDA from 1 October 1929 (14) • 1 October 1935 Major (7) • 31 May 1938 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) with effect and RDA from 1 June 1938 (32) • 14 June 1941 Oberst (Colonel) with effect and RDA from 1 July 1941 (6) • 28 June 1942 received new and improved RDA from 1 August 1940 (3a) • 16 November 1942 Generalmajor (Major General) with effect and RDA from 1 December 1942 (15) • 15 May 1943 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General) with effect and RDA from 1 June 1943 (10) ==Awards and decorations==

• DRA Sports Badge/Award for diverse achievements in the field of physical exercise (Auszeichnung für vielseitige Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Leibesübungen) in Bronze on 25 October 1913 • Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class • 2nd Class on 20 March 1916 • 1st Class on 15 March 1917 • War Merit Cross (Brunswick), 2nd and 1st Class • 2nd Class (BrKr2/BrK2) on the ribbon for combatants on 1 September 1916 • Frontline Service Horse Clasp to the 2nd Class (BrKr2a/BrK2a) in 1918 • 1st Class (BrKr1/BrK1) on 1 August 1918 • House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords (HOH3X) on 17 April 1918 • Wound Badge (1918) in Mattweiß (Silver) • Bronze Statue for Sporting Achievements on 10 July 1921 • DRA/German Gymnastics and Sports Badge (Deutsches Turn- und Sportabzeichen) in Silver on 12 May 1926 • Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords on 1 March 1935 • Wehrmacht Long Service Award, 4th to 1st Class • 2nd Class on 2 October 1936 • 1st Class in August 1939 • Hungarian World War Commemorative Medal with Swords • Austrian War Commemorative Medal with Swords • West Wall Medal • Repetition Clasp 1939 to the Iron Cross 1914, 2nd and 1st Class • 2nd Class on 26 September 1939 • 1st Class on 12 July 1941 • Infantry Assault Badge in Silver on 31 August 1941 • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves • Knight's Cross on 12 September 1941 as Oberst and Commander of Infanterie-Regiment 424 • Oak Leaves on 18 December 1944 as Generalleutnant and Commander of the 278. Infanterie-Division • German Cross in Gold on 18 May 1942 as Oberst and Commander of the Infanterie-Regiment 424 • Spanish War Cross, I. Class on 30 June 1942 • Winter Battle in the East 1941–42 Medal on 1 August 1942 • Mentioned by name in the Wehrmacht Report (Namentliche Nennung im Wehrmachtbericht) on 6 July 1944 ==Writings==

• Die 278. Infanterie-Division in Italien 1944/45, Verlag Hans-Henning Podzun, Bad Nauheim 1953 • Werner Buxa / Erich von Manstein / Harry Hoppe: Die Deutsche Infanterie 1939–1945, Podzun Verlag, 1967 ==Sources==