Biogaphy of General Hans Krebs?

[Beppo Schmidt]

I have been searching online, and can find out nothing about him before 1945.

[Andreas Schulz]

Sorry, just in German:

Krebs, Hans geb. Helmstedt (Land Brandenburg) 04.03.1898, gest. (Selbstmord) Berlin 01.05.1945. 00.08.1914 Eintritt in das ostfriesisches Infanterie-Regiment 78 als Fahnenjunker, 18.06.1915 Leutnant (mit Patent vom 19.12.1915), 00.00.1915 – 00.00.1918 Kompanieführer und Adjutant, 00.00.1925 Oberleutnant, 00.00.1928 Chef der 13. Kompanie des Infanterie-Regiments 17, 00.00.1931 Hauptmann im Reichswehrministerium, 00.00.1932 zur Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost des Reichswehrministeriums kommandiert, 00.00.1933 – 00.00.1935 Gehilfe des Militärattachés an der deutschen Botschaft in Moskau, 00.00.1935 – 00.00.1937 im Generalstab der 24. Division, 00.00.1936 Major, 00.00.1937 in die 11. Abteilung des Generalstabes des Heeres versetzt, 01.02.1939 Oberstleutnant (mit RDA vom 01.02.1938), 00.00.1939 - 00.10.1939 Chef des Heeresausbildungswesens, 00.10.1939 - 00.00.1941 Chef des Stabes des VII. Armeekorps (Frankreich); 01.10.1940 Oberst, 00.03.1941 - 00.05.1941 stellvertretender Militärattaché an der deutschen Botschaft in Moskau, 00.06.1941 - 13.01.1942 Chef des Stabes des VII. Armeekorps, 14.01.1942 - 01.03.1943 Chef des Generalstabes der 9. Armee; 01.02.1942 Generalmajor, 01.03.1943 - 00.09.1944 Chef des Generalstabes der Heeresgruppe Mitte (Ostfront), 01.04.1943 Generalleutnant, 01.08.1944 General der Infanterie, 00.09.1944 - 16.02.1945 Chef des Generalstabes der Heeresgruppe B (Westfront), 17.02.1945 - 22.03.1945 Chef der Abteilung Ausbildung und der Personalverwaltung im Hauptquartier sowie Chef (i.V.) der Führungsgruppe im OKH und Stellvertreter (i.V.) des Chefs des Generalstabes des Heeres (Zossen); 20.02.1945 Eichenlaub (749.) zum Ritterkreuz; 29.03.1945 – 01.05.1945 Chef (m.d.W.d.G.b.) des Generalstabes des Heeres. Krebs erschoß sich im Bunker in der Reichskanzlei.

AnDie

[Dieter Zinke]

Little supplement:

Student in Heidelberg (date ??)
Corps Suevia Heidelberg im Kösener Senioren Konvent (KSCV):
measures on fencing-ground

Oberstab

[Beppo Schmidt]

Thanks AnDie and Oberstab

[Gareth Collins]

Thank God Andie & Oberst Found Us...contilually impressed by their knowledger. Tell me, is there anything you DON'T know? Great Work.

[USAF1986]

Hello! Here are the decorations of General der Infanterie Hans Krebs that I am aware of.

Best regards,
Shawn

• Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross: 26 March 1944, Generalleutnant, Chief of the General Staff of Army Group Center
• Oakleaves (No. 749): 20 February 1945, General der Infanterie, Chief of the General Staff of Army Group B.
• Prussian Royal Hohenzollern House Order, Knight’s Cross with Swords
• Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
• Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
• Brunswick War Merit Cross, 1st Class
• Brunswick War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with “Bewährung” (Reliability) Clasp
• Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross, 1st Class
• Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross, 2nd Class
• Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
• Armed Forces Long Service Award, 1st Class (25-year Service Cross)
• Armed Forces Long Service Award, 3rd Class (12-year Service Medal)
• Wound Badge in Black – World War I award

[Benoit Douville]

More about Krebs:

-1936–1939 military attaché in Moscow (Krebs spoke fluent Russian)
-1939 Chief of Army Training Section
-1939–1942 Chief of Staff VII Corps
-1942–1943 Chief of Staff German Ninth Army, Eastern Front
-1943–1944 Chief of Staff Army Group Centre, Eastern Front
-1944–1945 Chief of Staff Army Group B, Western Front
-1945 Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH)
-1945 April 1–May 1 Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH)

This guy is an interesting case because he was an enthusiastic guy, he was really enjoying life, he didn't have a lot of ambition and he was open minded.

Source: La débâcle Allemande by Jürgen Thorwald

Regards

[Jan-Hendrik]

Krebs and ???

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Jan-Hendrik

[John Toner]

Busch, Weiss, Krebs, Hossbach, Roman, Speth

John

[Jan-Hendrik]

Excellent!

Thank you

Jan-Hendrik

[Hannes19]

I don't know if it will help -and accurate, but I found some interesting description about him :

General Hans Krebs, Guderian's deputy, was appointed the new chief of staff. 'This short, bespectacled, somewhat bandy-legged man,' wrote one staff officer, 'had a perpetual smile and the air of a faun about him.' He had a sharp, often sarcastic, wit and always had the right joke or anecdote for any moment. Krebs, a staff officer and not a field commander, was the archetypal second in command, which was exactly what Hitler wanted. Krebs had been military attache in Moscow shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. And for an officer of the Wehrmacht, he enjoyed the unusual distinction of having been slapped on the back by Stalin. 'We must remain friends, whatever should happen,' the Soviet leader had then said to him, when saying farewell to the Japanese foreign minister on Moscow Railway Platform early in 1941. 'I'm convinced of it,' Krebs had replied, quickly recovering from his astonishment. Field Commanders,
however, had little respect for Krebs' opportunism. He was known as 'the man who can make white out of the black.'

On Guderian's departure, Freytag von Loringhoven asked to be sent to a frontline division, but Krebs insisted that he stayed on with him. 'The war's over anyway,' he said, 'I want you to help me in this last phase.' Freytag von Loringhoven felt obliged to agree. He thought that Krebs was 'no Nazi' and that he had refused to join the July plotters only because he was convinced that the attempt would fail. But others noticed how General Burgdorf, an old war academy classmate, persuaded Krebs to join the Bormann -Fegelein Circle. Presumably in Bormann's scheme, a loyal Krebs would ensure the army's obedience.

Source : Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Anthony Beevor.

[graveland]

Hello! Here are the decorations of General der Infanterie Hans Krebs that I am aware of.

Best regards,
Shawn

• Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross: 26 March 1944, Generalleutnant, Chief of the General Staff of Army Group Center
• Oakleaves (No. 749): 20 February 1945, General der Infanterie, Chief of the General Staff of Army Group B.
• Prussian Royal Hohenzollern House Order, Knight’s Cross with Swords
22.08.1915 EK II
06.02.1917 EK I
14.05.1940 Spange zum EK II
28.05.1940 Spange zum EK I
26.01.1942 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Ostmedaille
• Brunswick War Merit Cross, 1st Class
• Brunswick War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with “Bewährung” (Reliability) Clasp
• Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross, 1st Class
• Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross, 2nd Class
• Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
Wehrmacht (Heer) Dienstauszeichnung 4. bis 1.Klasse
• Wound Badge in Black – World War I award

[Requin Marteau]

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[graveland]

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29.11.1934: Ritterkreuz 1. Klasse des Königl. Schwedischen Schwerterordens

[Requin Marteau]

Very Good