Ammon, Carl von, born on 27-07-1878 in Charlotteburg,

entered the Army Serve on 11-09-1897, almost 6 months before the birth of
Adolf Hitler 
(see
Alois)

+(see
Hitler parents).

As a Fahnenjunker he served in the 2
nd Foot Guards Regiment and promoted to Leutnant on 27-01-1899. Transferred to the Leib-Husaren-Regiment 1 on 10-11-1900 and promoted to Oberleutnant. He became the adjutant in this regiment on 06-05-1910 and promoted to Rittmeister from 01-10-1913. He participated in World War I as IIb officer in the Staff of the 36
th Infanterie Division. From 20-12-1917 assigned as Battalion commander of the Reserve Infanterie Regiment 229 and as commander of the 2
nd Leib Husaren Regiment

he retired unhurt on 31-12-1919. He reactivated in the Army again as a Major and as Replacement Inspector in the Wehrkreiskommando and promoted to Oberstleutnant on 15-05-1934. At the start of World War II, Ammon, at the age of 61, was already an older General, received the rank of Generalmajor first on 01-04-1940. Ammon, a dutiful slow administration soldier, was during the whole war, until 01-11-1944, the Military Replacement Inspector of Stettin and succeeded by Konter Admiral Günther Horstmann

, and connecting in the Führer Reserve OKW,
(
did you know) until his retirement on 28-02-1945, at the age of 67. Günther Horstmann survived the war and after being in Soviet captivity from 03-05-1945, released on 09-10-1955. Horstmann died, old age 98, on 09-02-1993 in Basel, Switzerland. Hitler and
Eva Braun’s (see
Braun parents)
Death and burial ground of Ammon, Carl von.
General Carl Ammon lived a quiet life, without being in Allied prison after the war, in the town of Wasserburg. He died a year after his retirement, at the age of 68, on 23-09-1946 and is buried with his wife Lore, who died 83 in 1983, on the village cemetery of Wasserburg.
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