Gräser, Fritz Hubert, born 03-11-1888 in Frankfurt an der Oder,
joined the Army on 28-02-1907, age 18, as a Fähnrich, in the Grenadier-Regiment „Prinz Carl von Preußen“ Nr. 12
in Frankfurt. He participated with his Regiment in the first war and was in the fields as an adjutant. He ended the war as the 1st Officer in the General Staff of the 1st Replacement Division. Gräser retired on 02-07-1919, age 40, reactivated on 01-11-1932 as commander of the Wehrkreis Region Frankfurt. Major on 01-05-1934, Oberstleutnant on 01-03-1936 and Oberst on 01-10-1938. Assigned as commander of the 29th Infantry Regiment, on 26-08-1939, he was with the invasion of Poland and the Western Front. He participated also, with his Regiment, in Operation Barbarossa
and severely wounded
on 11-07-1941, as his left leg was amputated and the right knee shattered. During his recovery he was in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) and on 01-10-1941 promoted to Generalmajor. He here with Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Edelsheim
got the command of the 3rd Panzer Grenadier Division
and promoted to Generalleutnant on 15-05-1943. Von Edelsheim died 26-04-1994 (aged 96) in Konstanz. Most of the men and equipment of the Grenadier Division landed and ended in the Pocket of Stalingrad. On 31-05-1944 he lost his command to Generalmajor der Panzertruppe, 345 th Infanterie-Division, Hans Hecker
who died old age 84, on 01-05-1979 and again landed in the Führer Reserve and followed a training for commanding Generals in Hirschberg. He became commander of the XXIV Panzer Corps, he succeeded General der Panzertruppe, Walther Nehring
and from 20-08-1944 the command of the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps. He became a General of the Panzertruppe on 01-09-1944 and Corps Commander. On 21-09-1944 he got the command of the 4th Panzer Army
he succeeded General der Panzertruppe, Hermann Balck, until 30-01-1945. The 4th Panzer Group’s predecessor was the XVI Army Corps, under Generaloberst der Wehrmacht, Erich Hoepner















Death and burial ground of Gräser, Fritz Hubert.











