Harmjanz, Willi, born 04-01-1893 in Neuruppin,
Brandenburg, as the first child of Heinrich, Wilhelm Harmjanz (dentist) and his wife Martha, Franziska, born Richter. At Easter 1911 school attendance at the elementary school and the Friedrich Wilhelm grammar school in Neuruppin,
with the acquisition of the school leaving certificate. Willi entered the Army Service as a Fahnenjunker and Company Officer in the 152nd Infantry Regiment on 23-03-1911, age 18. He was in the fields of the first war as the leader of the 152nd Regiment and retired after the war on 30-07-1919. Harmjanz than entered the Police Service. From 01-08-1919 Harmjanz was ranked as a police captain in the police group in Gliwice. Gliwice/Gleiwitz would later became very famous as WWII started over there. The Gleiwitz incident was a covert Nazi German attack on the German radio station








Harmjanz held this position until the end of September 1920. He was then leader of the Ratibor police group until mid-March 1921, and from December 1920, in the same function, in the command of the Liegnitz police force. From 15-02-1921 to July 1926, he was the command leader of the police in Grünberg. Subsequently, Harmjanz acted again from August 1926 to April 1930 as a leader in the police force in Opole and Cottbus. In May 1930 he was assigned to the police in beautiful Königsberg
, where Harmjanz worked as an officer until February 1933. From March 1933 to July 1935, he took the same position at the state police inspection there Harmjanz was transferred to Hermann Göring’s (did you know)
Luftwaffe Service
on 01-08-1935, with the Staff of the Air Equipment Master. With the outbreak of World War II he was commander of Air Equipment Group IV and different short commands of other Air Equipment Groups. He became Commanding General of the Field Region Command Norway, from 26-06-1941 until 17-01-1944 and landed in the Führer Reserve OKL
(see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) (see William Patrick Hitler)
, until 30-04-1945.
Hitler and Eva Braun’s ashes were scattered from the Schweinebrücke over the river Ehle in Biederitz.










Death and burial ground of Harmjanz, Willi.





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