Breith, Hermann Albert, born on 25-05-1892 in Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz,
the son of Karl Ludwig Breith and his wife Friederike Karolina, entered the Army Service on 21-09-1911 as a Fahnenjunker in the 18th Königlich Bayerisches Infanterie-Regiment “Prinz Ludwig Ferdinand”
to 07-07-1913. Detached to the Bavarian War School in Munich and from 21-08-1913 transferred to the 5th Bavarian Filed Artillery Regiment. When World War I started, he came to the front as a Leutnant with the 2nd Battery of the 5th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment and was taken ill in hospital in December 1914. Recovered he was back with the 5th and from 10-03-1915 detached as Instructor to the Training Course for Officers Aspirants of the 3rd Bavarian Infantry Division
to April 1915. He was seriously wounded
in the spring of 1918 near Metz, France, due to a aircraft bomb, in hospital to July 1918. He was awarded with the Iron Cross and Wounded Orden on granted leave to regain his health and taken over in the new Reichswehr. Promoted to Hauptmann on 01-01-1923, Major on 01-04-1933, Oberstleutnant on 01-12-1935 and Oberst on 01-04-1938. Major Breith, commander of the II. Department / Motor Vehicle Command Zossen, married his fiancée Ina Gertrud Hill in Berlin on 26-01-1935 (born 19–3-1916 in Königsberg). Her parents were Wilhelm Hill and his wife Emilia Gertrud, born Berger (daughter of the leather goods manufacturer Johann Berger and Theresa, born Freymuth in Ermland Braunsberg). As an Oberst and commander of the 35th Artillery Regiment, he was involved on the Western front. In April 1940 he was assigned to commander of the 127th Artillery Command and on the Eastern front.
At the end of December 1941 he was released of his post and landed in the Führer Reserve. In January 1942 he came to the Artillery School I and in April 1942 as commander of the Artillery School II and promoted to Generalmajor. Becoming Generalleutnant, he now was Commander of the Artillery School I and from Mai 1944 again in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know). At last, on 01-07-1944 after D-Day, he became a battlefield commander again, of the 4th Mountain Division
, he succeeded Oberst Karl Jank
who died age 78, on 24-08-1975, in Munich and Breith received the Ritterkreuz with Silber.
It took part in the 1941 Balkans Campaign and then joined Army Group South in Operation Barbarossa
after it was already underway. In this campaign Army Group South was led by Generalfeldmarschall der Panzertruppe, Gerd von Rundstedt


















Death and burial ground of Breith, Hermann Albert.





