(Photo courtesy of Gareth Collins)
Generalmajor Hans Metzner
Born: 22 Feb 1898 in Dessau, Anhalt
Died: 24 Jan 1975 in Reinbek
Promotions:
Fähnrich zur See (13 Jul 1916); Leutnant zur See (13 Dec 1917); Charakter als Oberleutnant zur See (27 Jan 1921); Oberleutnant zur See (01 Apr 1925); Kapitänleutnant (01 Jan 1933); Korvettenkapitän (01 Oct 1936); Major (01 Oct 1937); Oberstleutnant (01 Aug 1938); Oberst (01 Apr 1939); Generalmajor (01 Apr 1952)
Career:
Entered the Army as a War Volunteer in the 74th Field-Artillery-Regiment (15 Aug 1914-30 Sep 1915)
Transferred into Navy Service and Attended Infantry Training at the Naval School (01 Oct 1915-09 Nov 1915)
Seekadett on Board the Heavy Cruiser ‘Freya’ (10 Nov 1915-05 Feb 1916)
Seekadett on Board the Liner ‘Nassau’ (06 Feb 1916-08 Jul 1916)
Navigation-Course at the Naval School (09 Jul 1916-10 Oct 1916)
Taken Ill (10 Oct 1916-02 Nov 1916)
Navigation-Course at the Naval School (03 Nov 1916-02 Mar 1917)
Training with the School-Boat-Flotilla (03 Mar 1917-15 May 1917)
Artillery-Course on Board Hulk ‘Nixe’ and Heavy Cruiser ‘Kaiserin Augusta’ (16 May 1917-15 Jul 1917)
Pilot-Training and Pilot with the I. Sea-Flying-Battalion (Flight-Station Wick, Rügen, Bug, Rügen, Libau and Reval) (16 Jul 1917-21 Apr 1918)
Pilot with the Command Of Flying of the High Seas Fleet (22 Apr 1918-30 Mar 1919)
Granted Leave (31 Mar 1919-15 Nov 1919)
Retired (15 Nov 1919)
Studying of National Economy (01 Apr 1919-30 Jun 1923)
Reactivated to Naval Service and Attended Repeat-Course at the Naval-School (01 Jul 1923-26 Aug 1923)
Training on Board the Tender ‘Nordsee’ (27 Aug 1923-01 Sep 1923)
Repeat-Course at the Naval-School (02 Sep 1923-30 Sep 1923)
Watch-Officer on the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 146’ of the 2nd Torpedo-Boat-Half-Flotilla (01 Oct 1923-06 Feb 1925)
Artillery-Course at the Ship-Artillery-School (07 Feb 1925-02 May 1925)
Watch-Officer on the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 146’ of the 2nd Torpedo-Boat-Half-Flotilla (03 May 1925-14 Jul 1925)
Detached to Naval Command – entrusted with special duties (15 Jul 1925-31 Jul 1925)
Watch-Officer on the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 139’ of the 2nd Torpedo-Boat-Half-Flotilla (01 Aug 1925-24 Sep 1925)
Adjutant of the I. Torpedo-Boat-Half-Flotilla and also Watch-Officer on the Torpedo-Boat ‘T 190’ (25 Sep 1925-23 Sep 1926)
Naval-Signals-Officer Kiel (24 Sep 1926-29 Sep 1927)
Photographic-Officer with the Command of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea (30 Sep 1927-28 Oct 1929)
Ships-Cadre ‘Karlsruhe’ (29 Oct 1929-05 Nov 1929)
Watch and 2nd Artillery Officer on the Cruiser ‘Karlsruhe’ (06 Nov 1929-27 Sep 1931)
Placed to the Disposal of the Chief of the Naval-Station of the Baltic Sea, Training and Group Leader with the Sea-Radio-Test-Command Warnemünde (28 Sep 1931-30 Sep 1933)
Course-Participant at the Naval Academy (01 Oct 1933-30 Sep 1935)
5th Admiral-Staff-Officer in the Staff of Fleet Command (01 Oct 1935-30 Sep 1937)
Transferred into Luftwaffe Service as Squadron-Captain of the Coastal-Reconnaissance-Squadron 2/606 and Sea-Air-Base-Commandant Kamp, Pomerania (01 Oct 1937-30 Nov 1937)
Commander of Coastal-Reconnaissance-Group 706 (01 Dec 1937-17 Aug 1938)
Squadron-Captain with Coastal-Flying-Group 2/606 (18 Aug 1938-30 Sep 1938)
Transferred for use to the RLM (01 Oct 1938-31 Jan 1939)
Group-Director L in OKW, Intelligence Office (01 Feb 1939-30 Jun 1940)
General-Staff-Officer of Luftwaffe in the Staff of Naval-Group-Command West (01 Jul 1940-30 Jun 1941)
Commander of the 41st Flying-Training-Regiment and Commander of the Flying-School Frankfurt/Oder (01 Jul 1941-30 Sep 1941)
Chief Of The General Staff of Field-Air-Region-Command Belgium-North France (01 Oct 1941-00 Sep 1944)
Arrested by a Special-Court then Acqutted (00 Sep 1944-31 Dec 1944)
General with Special Duties with Air-Region-Command VIII, Breslau then Prague (01 Jan 1945-08 May 1945)
At the same time, Airport-Area-Commandant Prague (00 Feb 1945-08 May 1945)
In Captivity (08 May 1945-01 Sep 1947)
Released (01 Sep 1947)

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