Stosch, Hans-Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm von.

Stosch, Hans-Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm von, born 03-11-1889 in Prenzlau., the only son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Stosch (1850–1898) and Fennimor, born Fiebelkorn (* 1867). Stosch joined the Imperial Navy in April 1908 and was promoted to Leutnant zur See in January 1912.  He served, among other things.1913 on the Helgoland and later on the Derfflinger.

On 21-11-1918, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, apparent that the British intended to seize the German ships on 21-06-1919, which was the deadline by which Germany was to have signed the peace treaty. The Derfflinger sank at 14:45. The ship was raised in 1939 and was anchored, still capsized, off the island of Risa

As an observation officer of the Derfflinger, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class for his participation in the Battle of Skagerrak, like eight other crew members. In July 1918 he became an officer on watch on the brakes. Then he was an artillery officer on the brakes until the end of the war. On 22-11-1919 he was released as a Oberleutnant at sea. On 27-08-1920 he was reactivated in the character of a Kapitänleutnant for the Reichsmarine. He was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on 01-05-1927. Until 1934 he was a Kapitän zur See.

In the Navy he was as Rear Admiral from October 1937 to February 1941 fortress commander of North Friesland / Coast Commander North Friesland. He then became the sole Naval Commander A, which had been formed from the staff of the Coast Commander North Friesland, and later became Naval Commander Greece. In July 1941 the Admiral Aegean was set up from the Naval Commander in Greece and Stosch remained in this position until the end of September 1941. He handed over the post to Vice Admiral Erich Förste and was promoted to Vice Admiral. This was followed by his transfer to the Artillery Office. From February 1942 to January 1943 he was head of the office group for procurement, administration and replenishment of artillery weapons and ammunition, smoke and gas protection equipment, artillery arsenals (AWa C). From 13-01-1943 to 22-06-1943 he was Vice Admiral Coast Commander Deutsche Bucht.

Since 30-09-1944 finally retired from the naval service, Vice Admiral a. D. von Stosch returned to his property in Cosa near Friedland to his wife Susanne, born Eisleben. Friedland, which housed a reserve hospital until 27-04-1945, was bitterly defended against the Bolshevik invaders on the night of 28-04-1945, but the odds were too great and the Russians burned the city down.

“Devastation as far as the eye could see. In the months that followed, those who had returned were plundered for the second, third and even more times. Usually this happened according to plan. The great women hunt began. Girls and women between the ages of 10 and 80 were raped; many ten to 50 times, depending on the size of the company. Not all women survived that. “The horror in Cosa was no less tragic: despite the NSDAP’s ban on trekking, an attempt to trek with ten wagons was made on 28-04-1945, which failed in the nearby village of Brohm due to a Soviet low-flying attack. On 28-04-1945 at 4 p.m. the Red Army rolled over the village and estate. First came the tank top, then well over 100 tanks followed, which stayed overnight in the yard of the manor. Gutssprößling and later agricultural journalist (editor for nutrition, agriculture and forestry on television), consultant for press and public relations of the working group for agricultural construction in Frankfurt / Main, family researcher and recognized historian Wilhelm Thedwig Otto Helmuth Georg von Oertzen (born 26-02-1921 in Lübbersdorf; died 13-05-2011 in Hamburg), who was severely wounded and released from the hospital the day before, described in the post-war period on 28-05-1987:

“The days after that, with all their horrors and horrors, elude the description.”Oertzen’s son-in-law, who as a leutnant in the reserve married the daughter of Vice-Admiral Elisabeth von Stosch in Cosa on 12-03-1943 (born 08-08-1922 in Kiel), reported to Joachim Schultz-Naumann in the post-war period for his book “Mecklenburg 1945 ” In detail. The Red Army soldiers in Cosa searched all houses for valuables, as they did in all other towns and cities in East Mecklenburg (since July 1945 also in West Mecklenburg). The entire Cosa estate was looted and the Polish farm workers immediately took part in the looting, while the French prisoners of war were neutral and cautious. The Poles were unlucky, the Russians, in their own greed, took everything from them again. And then the mass rapes began here, too, no woman, no girl was left out. All animals were either slaughtered immediately or transported away. The Germans had to starve miserably.

Death and burial ground of Stosch, Hans-Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm von.

According to official sources, Hans Hubertus, age 55 and Susanne von Stosch are said to have committed suicide together on 28-04-1945. These “sources” were mostly the Russians themselves. In fact, many women were raped to death and their husbands murdered before or after. This bloody act was not infrequently recorded as a “suicide” on the orders of the Russians or the communist mayor appointed by the Russians. How exactly the von Stosch couple died, what fate they actually experienced on the last day of their existence together, remains unclear. Hans Hubertus and his wife Susanne Stosch were buried on the cemetery of Lübbersdorf.

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