Heun, Wilhelm, born 23-05-1895, in Herborn, Dillkreis,
entered the Army, age, 19, on 10-08-1914, as a war volunteer in 11th Kurhessisches Jäger-Bataillon.
He was in the fields of the first war with the 24th Reserve Jäger Battalion. Heun was retired from the Army on 07-12-1918 and started his study again the next years. He reactivated in the growing Wehrmacht
on 01-05-1934 as a Hauptmann, with the Staff of the 15th Infantery Regiment. At the beginning of World War II he was commander of the 471st Infantry Regiment. From November 1939 he was Commander of the 116th Infantry Regiment and on the Western Front.
Promoted to Oberstleutnant and transferred to the Eastern Front in the South of Russia. He lost this command on 22-03-1942 and appointed with the Command of the 435th Infantry Regiment. He became the rank of Oberst on 01-04-1942 and received the German Cross in Gold.
From 01-11-1943 he landed in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) and sent to a Division leader course. From 15-01-1944 he replaced the commander of Army Group North and was from 25-01-1944 Commander of the 83rd Infantry Division
, where he was the successor of Theodor Scherer,
Scherer died age 61, on 17-05-1951, in Ludwigsburg where also lived SS Obesrtgruppenführer, Kommandeur der SS-Div “LSSAH”, Sepp Dietrich.
Heun was on leave to 01-03-1944 and temporary replaced by Generalmajor der Artillerie, Kommandeur 83th Infanterie Division, Karl Fabiunke

















Death and burial ground of Heun, Wilhelm.


Released in 1947 Heun retired in Göttingen, where he at the very old age of 91 died, on 21-09-1986. Heun is buried in the Meckel family grave, on the Stadtfriedhof of Göttingen. On this cemetery are nine more WWII, Generalleutnant der Flieger, Chief of Field Economics Office, OKW, Wilhelm Becker, Generalleutnant der Flakartillerie, Kommandeur Heeres Gruppe IV, Curd Bernard, Generalleutnant der Artillerie, Kommandeur 34th Division
, Friedrich Bremer, General der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur 4th Panzer Grenadier Division, Fritz Gräser, General der Infanterie, Commander 4th Heeresgruppe, Friedrich Hossbach, Generalmajor der Artillerie, Kommandeur 33rd Artillerie Ersatz Regiment, Emiel Klie, Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur Heeres Regio 593, Walter Krause,
Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Erwin Leister, General der Flieger, Inspector of Smook Troops and Gas defence, Erich Quade and Generalmajor der Artillerie, Kommandeur vom WBK Königsberg II, Rudolf Scheller.




