Hengl, Georg Ritter von, born 21-10-1897 in Lailing,
Bavaria, was a war volunteer in the 11th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, age 16, on 04-08-1914. Transferred to the 9th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment and with this Regiment in the fields of the first war. He was wounded
in hospital from 04-11-1914 until 05-03-1915. He ended the war as an Observer into Flying Battalion A 295.
After the war, he joined the Bavarian Rescue Service, fought in the Freikorps Franz Epp
against the Munich Soviet Republic and entered the police service. In the Bavarian State Police, Hengl rose to become a police Hauptmann in June 1933. He was a SS-Obersturmbannführer
01-07-1934
He was again transferred to the Wehrmacht on 15-10-1935 and assigned, meanwhile an SS Oberstleutnant, as Chief of the 4th Machine Gun Company of the 100th Mountain Infantry Regiment. With the outbreak of World War II, Hengl, here with SS Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich




















On 21-04-1944 he was detached to the Personnel Office of the Ober Commando der Wehrmacht, OKH
to 05-05-1944. appointed as Chief of the NS Guidance Staff in OKH to 25-01-1945. He then was delegated to take command o the LIX Army Corps, but was taken ill and this command didn’t become effective. On 07-5-1945 the fighting group Hengl delivered the last battles to the advancing US troops at the Wilder Kaiser.
Hengl was captured by the United States. Hengl landed in captivity on 08-05-1945 and released in 1947. Retiring in Sonthofen, where there is a huge Hitler Elite School in Sonthofen, an “Ordenburg” for young soldiers,


Death and burial ground of Hengl, Georg Ritter von.




