Hornung, Ferdinand Maria, born 08-11-1891 in Würzburg, entered the Army on 01-10-1910, age 19, in the 6th Bavarian Infantry Regiment as a Fähnrich and Company Leader. He was in the fields of the first war with this regiment and wounded
in hospital from 08-09-1914 until 04-11-1915. He ended the war as an Adjutant in the 11th Bavarian Infantry Brigade. He was transferred to the Police Service from 27-04-1920 until 31-08-1935, as he was transferred to Hermann Goering

Hornung started World War II as an Oberst and an Administrator with the Welfare and Supply Department of Military District Command XIII, to 25-10-1939. Leader of the Wehrmacht Welfare and Supply Department Regensburg until 31-12-1940. The same position in Nuremburg to 31-12-1941. He is again the commander of Wehrmacht Welfare Supply Department of Military District Command XIII until 28-02-1943 and the same position in the Military District XX to 31-03-1944. Again in the same position of Military District VII until 05-05-1945 and landed in Allied captivity. He was married with Edith Seelemann and they had one daughter Brigitta. 

Death and burial ground of Hornung, Ferdinand Maria.

Released on 27-06-1947 he, not a real battlefield General, lived in his hometown of Würzburg, where he at the age of 75 died, on 17-06-1967. He is buried with his wife Edith, born Seelemann, who died old age 95, on 11-03-2000, on the Hauptfriedhof, main cemetery of Würzburg. Close by the graves of the Generalmajor der Luftnachrichtentruppe, Commandeur Air Region Signals Regim, Hermann Fahrig, Generalmajor der Luftnachrichtentruppe, Kommandant Berlin III, Hans Prockl
